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  Index J
Following the election, hundreds demonstrated in the capital, Georgetown, charging her with fraud and an inability to lead the country on the grounds that she was not a natural-born citizen and was too old.
In 1992 Jaroszewicz and his wife were found murdered in their home; he had been tortured and strangled, and she had been shot.
In the elections of 1960 he won a seat in the Gambian legislature and was appointed minister of education.
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  1992 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
January 12 - The second round of Algeria's general elections is cancelled when the first round is favorable to the Islamic Salvation Front.
April 9 - United Kingdom general election, 1992: the Conservative Party, led by John Major, is unexpectedly re-elected.
April 15 - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1992   (3880 words)

  
  Election
Croatian parliamentary election, 2003 Elections for the 2003.
Icelandic presidential election 2004 A presidential election was held in 2004.
Salvadoran presidential election, 2004 A presidential election was held in 2004.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/election.html   (6770 words)

  
 PRESIDENTIAL AND GENERAL ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The last presidential and general elections on 5th October 2002 for which only half of the voters turned out to vote (54.98%), witnessed the victory of the ruling nationalist parties, in power since the end of the war (1995).
He recalled that the non-application of the reform of the police and the public audio-visual services would herald the end of the EU accession procedure; he enumerated all of the laws that had to be voted on; primarily these include those involving education and notably higher education.
Presidential election of the Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina
www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/bosnie/presidentielles/default.htm   (3177 words)

  
 Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Elections - ...
The State Election Commission was able to remedy some deficiencies of the legislative framework for the presidential election (adopted in 1992) by implementing relevant regulatory improvements from the parliamentary elections and decisions of the Constitutional Court.
The International Election Observation Mission wishes to express appreciation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Office for Co-operation with the OSCE, the State Election Commission, and the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia for their assistance and co-operation during the course of the observation.
The OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission was established in mid-November 1999 in Zagreb for the parliamentary election and continued for the presidential elections from 10 January 2000, covering the 21 counties throughout Croatia.
www.osce.org /odihr-elections/item_1_4505.html?print=1   (773 words)

  
 1992
1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday.
1989 1990 1991 - 1992 - 1993 1994 1995
March 1 - After a majority of Muslim and Croatian communities vote for Bosnian independence, Bosnian Serb snipers fire on civilians.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1992.html   (1785 words)

  
 February 17 1992 Vreme News Digest Agency No 21
Just like in Montenegro and Bulgaria after the elections, the communist party is using the policy of "personnel sediment" in all the strategically important institutions (state administration, mass media, big companies) and is practically continuing its domination.
The elections of 1990 were held at the time when the national antagonisms were rising and when the national leaders were advancing the interests of their nations.
Although the Croatian president does not have the right to dismiss the Croatian parliament, he still has considerable powers since he is authorized to appoint and dismiss prime ministers.
www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/21/t21-4.htm   (1189 words)

  
 nij156
After ten years of absolutist power exercised by Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), a party which won the first elections in 1990 and has been constantly in power ever since, HDZ was devastatingly defeated by Croatian democratic opposition at the parliamentary elections on 3rd of January 2000.
At second parliamentary election in 1992 his party barely got over election margin, but already third parliamentary elections in 1995 showed that it was on the rise.
As Croatian nationalist, Budisa was sentenced to 4 years in prison at the same time when Racan was starting his successful communist career, building it on the destruction of Budisa's reformist movement.
www.idee.org /nij156.html   (4990 words)

  
 CROATIA'S DEMOCRACY DEFICIT
Croatia promised to revise its election law as a condition for its admission to the Council of Europe in November 1996.
In article 16 of the 1999 election law, the number of seats for Serbs in the house of deputies is reduced to one, while the representation of the other minorities remains the same.
The issue of the inability of Croatian Serb refugees to assert their right to citizenship and hence to vote in elections is undoubtedly a more significant constraint to the exercise of those rights than the reduction in the number of seats.
www.hrw.org /reports/1999/croatia2/Electweb-03.htm   (1758 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review
After the breakdown of the Croatian Spring in 1971, he was sentenced to two years of imprisonment, which was reduced after Tito's intervention.
He was re-elected in 1992 and 1997, and he was due to hold the office of the President until the year 2002.
Thousands of Croatian citizens paid their respects to the late President by visiting the Presidential Office, where the coffin rests, and by lighting candles on the main squares of all Croatian towns.
www.ce-review.org /99/25/croatianews25.html   (940 words)

  
 War crimes indictee Ante Gotovina arrested (SETimes.com)
Retired Croatian General Ante Gotovina was arrested in the Spanish Canary Islands late on Wednesday (7 December), UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte announced in Belgrade on Thursday.
In October 1992, he was appointed Commander of the Split Operative Zone of the Croatian Army, which was later re-named the Split Military District, and held that post until March 1996.
Croatian officials, who on different occasions publicly called on Gotovina to surrender to the tribunal, maintained that he had fled the country, but pledged that he would be arrested if found.
www.setimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2005/12/08/feature-01   (1014 words)

  
 CROATIA'S DEMOCRACY DEFICIT
Political leaders in the Croatian Serb refugee communities in Bosnia and FRY must also bear some responsibility for insisting on unrealistic conditions for return and failing to encourage refugees to exercise their right to Croatian citizenship and to vote.
Voters who have residences in the Republic of Croatia and are on the day of the elections outside the Republic of Croatia vote in the diplomatic-consular representative offices of the Republic of Croatia for representatives of a constituency as determined by their residence on the territory of the Republic of Croatia.
Even if a Croatian Serb refugee is listed on the register of voters and has the documentary proof that he or she is a citizen, it may still be difficult or impossible to vote.
www.hrw.org /reports/1999/croatia2/Electweb-04.htm   (1573 words)

  
 Croatia - Political Parties
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was founded by Franjo Tudjman in 1989 originally as a platform-movement-like party but was soon transformed into a nationalist movement.
Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) was founded in 1904 under Stjepan Radic and Vlatko Macek and represented roughly 80 to 90 percent of the Croatian electorate during the period between World War I and World War II.
Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) was founded in 1990, and, despite its keen sense of nationalism and xenophobia, the HSP did not present a substantial threat to the HDZ’s power base largely because it has had a tendency to fragment.
www.unc.edu /~vineyard/politicalparties.htm   (610 words)

  
 1992 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
January 11 - Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
January 12 - The second round of Algeria's general elections is cancelled when the first round is favorable to the Islamic Salvation Front.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1992   (2131 words)

  
 East European Constitutional Review
The opposition’s poor showing in these elections was attributed mostly to their failure to agree on a single credible candidate.
Moreover, the CSLP was internally split between Gotovac and Drazen Budisa (CSLP’s presidential candidate in the 1992 elections), which caused many of Budisa’s supporters to break ranks and vote for Tudjman.
In the run up to the election, Tudjman also staged several grandiose public events which were clearly campaign events, including the “peace train” ride to Vukovar in eastern Slavonia, which he and 2000 supporters took, and his birthday celebration at the national theater.
www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num2/constitutionwatch/croatia.html   (1414 words)

  
 ABRAMOVIC, JOHN Basketball-Military-Business
Branimir Anzulovic, recording secretary of Croatian Fraternal Union Lodge 1984 and a cultural historian and alumnus of Croatian University, died November 3, 2001, in Virginia.
Indeed, Croatian Americans constituted in the early years of the history of the Communist Party of the United States of America one of the largest ethnic groups in the Party.
He also edited The American Croatian Pioneer, which was issued monthly by the Lodge No. 663 of the CFU in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and is still a rich source of information on Croatian local history.
www.croatians.com /BIOGRAPHY-AMERICA-A-J.htm   (13168 words)

  
 Croatia, in Parliamentary and Presidential Elections, Decisively Rejects Hard-liners’ Policies
The recent landmark parliamentary election in Croatia heralds, for the first time, the coming to power in that country of center-left political leaders prepared to replace nationalists who fomented the horrific Balkans conflicts of the early 1990s.
An election observer in Bosnia reported that a number of voting registration IDs bearing the same name were handed out by HDZ-dominated local election commissions to some voters there—meaning that individual voters could cast more than one ballot if they chose to do so.
On Jan. 24, Croatian voters in the first round of presidential elections strongly reinforced the victory of the moderates in the parliamentary poll earlier in the month.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0300/0003058.html   (1204 words)

  
 The Yugoslav Civil War
At Vukovar in Eastern Slavonia, artillery fire drove Croatians out of the city, which was of strategic importance as a gateway leading from Serbia to areas of Serbian population in the western parts of Bosnia and in Krajina, and as a region that was a source of oil.
In April 1992, Bosnian Serb forces began a methodical effort to seize control of as much territory as possible, especially in the eastern part of Bosnia (which is adjacent to Serbia), as a step toward a possible union with Serbia.
By the end of the summer of 1992, two-thirds of Bosnia was in Serb hands: the eastern zone near Serbia proper, a thin corridor running east-to-west toward Croatia, and land on both sides of the Bosnian-Croatian border around the Krajina region of Croatia.
www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect25.htm   (4122 words)

  
 A History of the Balkans Conflict
Croatia, whose independence was recognized by the European Community (EC) on 15 January 1992, therefore found itself in a dilemma: one-quarter of its territory was occupied by Serbian forces belonging to the self-proclaimed Republic of Krajina.
The only region that the Croatian forces did not have to take by force was the eastern region, which was finally re-incorporated on 15 January 1998.
The Bosnians managed to conduct an election which resulted in presidential authority being assumed by the Bosnian Moslems (44% of the population).
www.law.nyu.edu /kingsburyb/spring06/intl_law/unit6/canada_govt_chron_of_balkans.htm   (1399 words)

  
 List of election results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is a list of election results from around the world.
There is also a list of political parties and a list of politics by country.
UK Regional and local elections (including Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales)
www.encyclopedia-1.com /l/li/list_of_election_results.html   (320 words)

  
 July 13, 1992 Vreme News Digest Agency No 42
Her election slogan is: Croatia can do better, which probably means that she has to offer only a gradation of the preceding.
It is not a coincidence that her posters are being commented on in the form of five pointed red star stickers that have also started to adorn the posters of the ruling party and the current president.
The outcome of the elections will be decided by the election laws, the tailoring of the constituencies and similar manipulations fashioned to the advantage of the unscrupulous ruling party.
www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/43/t43-4.htm   (803 words)

  
 Croatia Article Archives by KeepMedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Croatian President Stipe Mesic won a second five-year term, winning 66 percent of the vote in a runoff election against just 34 percent for his rival from the conservative ruling party, electoral officials said.
Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader conceded defeat for the ruling conservative party's candidate in the presidential election after exit polls showed a clear victory for incumbent Stipe Mesic.
Croatians are set to vote in a presidential election runoff in which incumbent Stipe Mesic is expected to win a second five-year term.
www.topix.net /world/croatia/keepmedia   (1595 words)

  
 Presidenti i Republikes se Shqiperise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The end of the World War II and the liberation of Albania in 1944 were associated with the first parliamentary elections of December 1945 and with the transference of the function of the Head of State to a collegial body, like the Presidium of the Popular Assembly.
On February 22, 1991, the Presidential Council was established, governed by Ramiz Alia who exercised these functions until April 30, 1991.
On April 30, 1991, along with the election of the first President of the Parliamentary Republic from a multiparty parliament, the constitutional institution of the President of the Republic is created.
www.president.al /english/pub/presidentet.asp   (515 words)

  
 Balkan Repository Project - War Stories, Roy Gutman and Western perceptions of the Balkans War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In Croatia it is no secret that exile funds were used to finance Tudjman's election campaigns, form a major source of the wealth of the new Croatian elite and help fund its publicity machine and armed forces.
She is sometimes described as a 46 year old Croatian from Prijedor, sometimes as a Croatian in her early 40s from Vukovar.
This appears to be due to the fact that she was introduced to Western journalists by Croatian publicity-makers, sent abroad and invited to participate in meetings in other countries.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/media_watch/html/novo.html   (3050 words)

  
 elekto5
Hloverka Novak-Srzic, host of half the TV presentations of presidential candidates, spoke only in the male gender and addressed the entire population in the male gender as well.
According to Prkacin, presidential elections are "too serious", which means that women cannot be trusted to make a decision on their own.
Slaven Letica was not expressing a "different opinion" but insulting women journalists, authors, and feminists, describing them as "a group of self-centred middle-aged women who have serious problems with their own ethnic, ethical, human, intellectual and political identity" who have not chosen their life partners according to their emotions.
members.tripod.com /~CROWWOMEN/electo5.htm   (707 words)

  
 GlobaLex - The Croatian Legal System
Croatian Chamber of Notaries - Croatian chamber of notaries is an association of Croatian public notaries.
Minister of Justice names the presidents of the courts from among the appointed judges and the president of the Supreme Court of Croatia is chosen by the Parliament based on the proposition from the Cabinet.
It is important to recognize that all of the decisions of the constitutional court are considered a president (case law) because according to the constitution all courts and other governmental bodies must adhere to opinions and interpretations of the constitution and laws taken by constitutional court.
www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/Croatia.htm   (4805 words)

  
 USATODAY.com
Jennifer DePalma was born in 1974 and raised in Pittsburgh, Pa. She graduated from Princeton University in 1996 with a philosophy degree and earned a law degree from the University of Chicago in 2001.
Ellen Tauscher was born in East Newark, N.J., and lives in Pleasanton, Calif. She received a bachelor's degree in early childhood education from Seton Hall University and served on the school's Board of Regents from 1985 to 1989.
George P. Radanovich, the son of Croatian immigrants, was born _ and still resides _ in Mariposa, Calif., a small mountain community in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/Index.aspx?sp=CA&oi=H   (5690 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Croatian cabinet reshuffle looms as FM resigns
Croatian media reports say Miomir Zuzul’s resignation will not be the only one, and that further changes are to follow.
Croatian newspapers named European Integration Minister Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic as Zuzul’s possible successor as Foreign Minister, and said that between two and four other ministers could be removed from their posts as part of Sanader’s reshuffle plans.
In related news, the Croatian Constitutional Court on Wednesday turned down the election appeal of Minnesota businessman and Croatian presidential candidate Boris Miksic.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=10504   (589 words)

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