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	Croatian parliamentary election, 2003
		Elections for the Croatian Parliament were held on November 23, 2003.
		* Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ): 4 The number of diaspora mandates is reduced by 2 compared to previous elections due to somewhat lower diaspora turnout.
		Ivo Sanader of Croatian Democratic Union HDZ was appointed as Prime Minister by the President and confirmed by the Croatian Parliament.
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Croatian_elections_2003 (498 words)

	Croatian parliamentary election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections for the Croatian Parliament were held on November 23, 2003.
		The number of diaspora mandates is reduced by 2 compared to previous elections due to somewhat lower diaspora turnout.
		Ivo Sanader of Croatian Democratic Union HDZ was appointed as Prime Minister by the President and confirmed by the Croatian Parliament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croatian_elections_2003 (392 words)

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		In the 2001 local elections, turnout was only 46.85 percent, a dramatic decline from 75.3 percent and 63 percent, respectively, for the 2000 parliamentary and presidential elections.
		Turnout for the parliamentary elections in 2003 was 66.8 percent.
		Both the OSCE and the European Commission in their 2003 reports noted that a variety of sources and opinions are represented in the Croatian media and that the sector is considered independent and free from political or other pressures.
	www.freedomhouse.org /inc/content/pubs/nit/inc_country_detail.cfm?page=47&nit=330&year=2004&pf (8314 words)

	Election Monitoring
		Where contentious elections present fears of vote tampering and other irregularities, the presence of election monitors may serve to prevent shenanigans and give parties greater confidence that the vote was free and fair.
		Election observation is seen by donor countries and the international community as a means to enhance democratization, but controversial issues include the mandates of the observers, the cases of its misappropriation by authoritarian governments, and its masking other interests of donor countries.
		Based on the diversity of reports resulting from the observation of Zimbabwe's presidential election, this article argues that the current system of election monitoring: lacks adequate justification; is vulnerable to being deceived; is an inexact science; uses members of mixed ability and at times appears to follow scripts pre-written by their sponsors.
	www.beyondintractability.org /m/election_monitoring.jsp (2874 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
		The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine, HDZ BiH) is a political party of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		The Parliamentary Assembly is responsible for: The House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Predstavnicki Dom, is the upper house of the National Assembly in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Politics-of-Bosnia-and-Herzegovina (5368 words)

	Croatian Parliament - Definition, explanation
		The Croatian Parliament has between 100 and 160 members, elected on the basis of direct universal and equal suffrage by secret ballot, for a term of 4 years.
		Croatian counts and dukes later established a country and elected a king among themselves in the 9th and 10th century, but the legend says that they always made decisions as a group.
		In 1712, the Croatian Parliament decided on the so-called Pragmatic Sanction, thus taking the side of Maria Theresa, supporting her to become a queen of the Habsburg monarchy (previously no woman was allowed to rule the country without a king, that is, a man).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/cr/croatian_parliament.php (915 words)

	SGINF(2003)26E
		A delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly held meetings with the Mayor/Vice Mayor as well as with the representative of OHR, the Director of the OSCE regional Centre South and the Minister/Vice Minister of Education of Canton 7.
		On 25 May, parliamentary elections were held along with the referendum on the draft amendments to the Constitution.
		The delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly, which observed the elections, had meetings with the President of the State, the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Armenian delegation to PACE, the President of the Constitutional Court, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission, representatives of political parties and alliances standing for election.
	www.coe.int /t/e/sg/Secretary-General/Information/Documents/Numerical/2003/SGINF(2003)26E.asp (9467 words)

	Croatian_Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Croatian Parliament has between 100 and 160 members, elected on the basis of direct universal and equal suffrage by secret ballot, for a term of 4 years.
		Croatian counts and dukes later established a country and elected a king among themselves in the 9th and 10th century, but the legend says that they always made decisions as a group.
		In 1712, the Croatian Parliament decided on the so-called Pragmatic Sanction, thus taking the side of Maria Theresa, supporting her to become a queen of the Habsburg monarchy (previously no woman was allowed to rule the country without a king, that is, a man).
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Croatian_Parliament (854 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Croatian is: Croatian languageadjective for that which belongs to Croatiaethnic Croat (deprecated) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
		The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine, HDZ BiH) is a political party of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		The Croatian Krajina is a territory formed in the 16th century on the border of the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire, part of the Military Frontier.
	www.hostingciamca.com /browse.php?title=C/C/CRO (10976 words)

	Croatia (05/07)
		The Croatian Parliament, also known as the Sabor, became a unicameral body after its upper house (Chamber of Counties) was eliminated by constitutional amendment in March 2001.
		As a result of the parliamentary elections in November 2003, the HDZ formed a government in coalition with the Pensioners Party (HSU), Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS), and all ethnic minority representatives in the Sabor.
		On May 2, 2003, the United States joined Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia to sign the Adriatic Charter, in which the three NATO aspirants pledged their commitment to NATO values and their cooperative efforts to further their collective NATO aspirations.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3166.htm (2828 words)

	Setimes.com
		Local elections were held in Croatia on 15 May 2005.
		He said the SDP is now a force to be reckoned with ahead of the next general elections.
		Election observers have linked HDZ's poor showing to the government’s decision to increase co-operation with the UN war crimes tribunal, which is a key EU condition for Croatia’s membership to the Union.
	www.setimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/infoElections/setimes/resource_centre/elections/croatia_local_2005?country=Croatia (125 words)

	Britain's general election: Lower than average turnout in Scotland
		The only Scottish seat to change hands in the election was Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, where the SNP lost to the Conservatives, giving the Tories their only seat in Scotland.
		Its main focus is on the next elections to the Scottish parliament in 2003.
		As with the SNP, the Scottish Socialist Party's efforts are primarily directed to the 2003 Scottish parliamentary elections.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jun2001/scot-j12.shtml (933 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		International observers judged parliamentary elections in 2001 and local elections in 2003 to be acceptable and a step toward democratic development, but identified serious deficiencies.
		The July 2003 elections were relatively peaceful, but it took one year of negotiations between contending political parties before a coalition government was formed.
		Following the elections of a reformist president and Majlis in the late 1990s, attempts to foster political reform in response to popular dissatisfaction have floundered as conservative politicians have prevented reform measures from being enacted, increased repressive measures, and consolidated their control over the government.
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html (16146 words)

	Draxblog: 12/2003 - 12/2003
		Elections in Croatia and Serbia have another thing in common – reformist parties attributed to their poor election results by mishandling electoral legislation.
		For majority of Croatian population, which doesn't seem to care about economics until it hurts their wallet, Dr. Horvat is best known as one of the last die-hard and unrepentant old-style Communists.
		When being Croatian nationalist stopped being burden and became an advantage, Dr. Bilić was one of those people who refused to abuse it and instead kept his professional, academic and human integrity.
	draxisblogging.blogspot.com /2003_12_01_draxisblogging_archive.html (6966 words)

	Niger News
		President Mamadou Tandja met on February 14, 2003 with a delegation from the Patriotic Movement of Côte d’Ivoire (MPCI) during their tour of West African capitals designed to exchange ideas with African heads of state in a position to bring together the two parties in the Ivoirian conflict. Mr.
		At the invitation of the Angolan parliament, a Nigerien parliamentary delegation, led by Mr.
		A workshop to kick-off a dialogue on water, climatic changes and desertification was held from November 11-13, 2002 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, organized by the West African Partnership for Water, the World Union for Nature, and the Interstate Committee for the Fight against Drought in the Sahel (CILSS).
	www.nigerembassyusa.org /news.html (1555 words)

	Top Literature - Croatian parliamentary election, 2003
		Summary of the 23 November 2003 Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski Sabor)
		Croatian Democratic Peasants Party (Hrvatska demokratska seljačka stranka)
		The number of diaspora mandates is reduced by 2 compared to previous elections due to somewhat lower diaspora turnout.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Croatian_parliamentary_election%2C_2003 (367 words)

	Macedonia (10/07)
		Trajkovski's election was confirmed by a December 5, 1999 partial re-vote in 230 polling stations, which the Macedonian Supreme Court mandated due to election irregularities.
		Local elections were held in March-April 2005 under a new territorial reorganization plan that consolidated the overall number of Macedonia’s municipalities and created a number of ethnically-mixed municipalities in which ethnic Albanian populations were dominant.
		Local elections on the basis of a new municipal division mandated by the Framework Agreement were held in March-April 2005.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/26759.htm (5139 words)

	mediaonline.ba
		Along with surveys carried out at the time by the Croatian Helsinki Board, the Election Monitoring Mission of the OSCE Office of Democratic Initiative and Human Rights assessed that broadcasters and the press very fairly carried out their function to inform during the election campaign for the 2003 parliamentary elections.
		The fourth elections for the president of the Republic of Croatia, with all public opinion surveys until the very opening of the polling stations predicting a relatively smooth victory and second mandate for incumbent President Stipe Mesic, in the end turned into a real drama.
		Namely, Stipe Mesic had said during the election campaign that the media and advertising space were so flooded with Jadranka Kosor that he was afraid even to open a can of pâté because she might jump out of it.
	www.mediaonline.ba /en?ID=341 (1024 words)

	The Militant - November 24, 2003 -- Behind the outcome of California election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The course and outcome of the election confirmed what we have noted from the start: there’s no reason to believe the majority of voters in California, or in the United States more widely, oppose Bush’s and Rumsfeld’s unremitting effort to find an effective course in the “war on terrorism.” To the contrary.
		The California recall election once again highlighted one of the central political conclusions of our movement’s assessment of the first, the 1992, Clinton campaign: that the Democratic “center” was absorbing the “left,” and that the converging course of the capitalist parties is shifting very gradually but steadily to the right.
		His campaigns for a second and third term were actively supported by the labor officialdom, the Communist Party, and the so-called American Labor Party, formed in 1936 by the CP and a layer of union bureaucrats to divert class-conscious workers into voting for capitalist candidates such as LaGuardia and President Franklin Roosevelt.
	www.themilitant.com /2003/6741/674150.html (1845 words)

	Croatia Country Profile general information trade issues
		The main source of the law is the constitution of 1990 (revised in 2001) which is based on civil law system.
		Croatian is the judicial language used in the country.
		The Croatian dishes are served with rather reputed local wines.
	www.fita.org /countries/cadre_14.html (552 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Europe & Central Asia: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In October parliamentary elections in Montenegro, the moderates with a long-term goal of independence for Montenegro won an absolute majority of seats against the parties advocating closer ties with Serbia and the pro-independence radicals.
		Presidential elections in Serbia, held in September and October, failed to produce a winner because the second round turnout was below the 50 percent threshold required by the election law.
		It took until the end of February 2002, and three abortive parliamentary votes, for the parties to agree on Rugova's election as president of Kosovo and the appointment of Bajram Rexhepi, a physician and former PDK mayor of Mitrovica/Mitrovice, to head the new government.
	hrw.org /wr2k3/europe17.html (4831 words)

	November 2003
		Georgia: In parliamentary elections, the For a New Georgia bloc wins 21.3% of the vote and the Revival Union 18.9%; both are loyal to President Eduard Shevardnadze.
		Japan: In parliamentary elections, the Liberal-Democratic Party wins 237 of 480 seats in the lower house, its coalition partners 38 (New Komeito 34, New Conservative Party 4), the Democratic Party 177, the Communist Party 9, and the Social Democratic Party 6.
		Gibraltar: In parliamentary elections, Chief Minister Peter Caruana's Social Democrats win 51.5% of the vote (8 of 15 seats), the Socialist Labour Party/Liberal coalition 39.7% (7), and Labour 8.3% (0).
	www.rulers.org /2003-11.html (1612 words)

	ACTIVITIES \| Election Monitoring @ GONG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We encourage, organize and educate Croatian citizens to monitor elections as domestic, non-partisan observers in order to prevent and/or reveal the election law and regulations malpractice, report to the public and build citizens’ trust and confidence in election process.
		In 1999, the election law was amended to permit non-partisan election monitoring.
		In advance of elections, GONG routinely manages civic education campaigns on electoral process, voting rights and the importance of certain elections.
	www.gong.hr /eng/gong.asp?cat=17&subcat=48 (219 words)

	Oil intrigue and US Realpolitik heighten tensions in the Caucasus Georgia's "rose revolution": a ...
		These elections will be little more than a formality, as the US-backed forces that seized power over the weekend of November 22-23 have coalesced around the current mayor of Tbilisi and most prominent leader of the insurgency, Mikhail Saakashvili.
		In local elections last summer, he ran as an oppositionist and was elected mayor of Tbilisi.
		Washington’s initial response to the disputed November 2 parliamentary election was low-key.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/dec2003/geor-d05.shtml (2196 words)

	The Howard government, RAMSI, and the April 2006 Solomon Islands' riots Part 1
		It was in this context that Canberra anticipated with trepidation the April 2006 elections, the seventh since the country’s independence and the first under RAMSI rule.
		Peter Kenilorea, the parliamentary speaker, pleaded with RAMSI to let him negotiate with the crowd, but instead the Australian police fired rounds of tear gas.
		After the general election, parliamentarians divided into three different factions, each of which engaged in various manoeuvres aimed at garnering sufficient support to form government.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2007/feb2007/solo-f21.shtml (2406 words)

	Country Profiles Foreign & Commonwealth Office
		With the formal adoption of a new Constitutional Charter on 4 February 2003 the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia became the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
		The Law was amended in April 2003 by the Serbia and Montenegro Government to state that all indictees, regardless of the their indictment date, should be extradited to The Hague.
		The Croatian state prosecution was obliged to inform the Montenegrin Supreme State Prosecutor about all war crimes cases within 30 days of the Agreement being signed.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1150456892848 (5168 words)

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