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Topic: Croatian presidential election, 2005

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		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.
		Thirdly, although election monitoring and observation represent good practice at the micro level of democratisation, they have also tended to be used as part of the political conditionality and leverage through which industrial countries impose their hegemony over developing countries and thereby undermine their already enfeebled national sovereignty.
		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.
	www.beyondintractability.org /m/election_monitoring.jsp (3301 words)

	CNN.com - World News: Election Watch
		The last elections were held on February 7, 2000.
		In the last election, Stjepan MESIC received 56% of the vote while Drazen BUDISA secured 44% of the vote.
		A second round of elections was held on January 16, 2005.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/croatia5.html (129 words)

	2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Croatia
		Presidential and local elections held during the year were generally conducted in accordance with electoral legislation, despite some irregularities.
		Citizen's Organized to Monitor Elections (GONG), the leading local election-monitoring NGO, reported that the January presidential elections were conducted in accordance with electoral legislation, with some irregularities, including breaches of procedure by individual polling committees and inaccurate voter lists.
		The Croatian Association for HIV reported that dentists and general practitioners often refused treatment of HIV positive patients and some hospitals postponed surgeries because doctors were reluctant to operate.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61642.htm (13609 words)

	Draxblog III: January 2005
		Even some on the Croatian liberal left are joining the chorus of outrage, albeit for somewhat different reasons – for them Ceca is unacceptable because she promotes "turbo folk", music which is anti-thesis of everything modern progressive liberal and urban Europe of 21st Century stands for.
		This was taken as a proof of Croatian democracy being mature and not needing foreigners to rescue it from being overtaken by authoritarian past.
		Among the biggest losers of 2005 presidential elections are certain institutions that are supposed to be the pillars of civic society.
	draxblog.typepad.com /draxblog_3/2005/01 (15566 words)

	Croatia (10/06)
		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) and all ethnic minority representatives in the Sabor.
		In December 2005 General Ante Gotovina, indicted by the ICTY for war crimes and a fugitive since 2002, was arrested by Spanish authorities in the Canary Islands, partially as a result of intelligence information provided by the Croatian Government.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3166.htm (2773 words)

	E. L. Easton - English - U.S. Government & Politics - Elections
		Primaries are elections held to nominate a candidate for a particular party.
		Election Day is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
		The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote (direct election).
	eleaston.com /politics-us.html (357 words)

	Exit poll shows Mesic ahead in Croatian presidential election
		ZAGREB, Croatia President Stipe Mesic was leading Sunday in Croatia's presidential election, according to an exit poll, but it appeared that he would fail to win the 50 percent of votes needed to avoid a runoff.
		Jadranka Kosor, a minister from the governing conservative Croatian Democratic Union who had been considered Mesic's chief rival, was in third place with 16.5 percent of the vote, the poll indicated.
		Many saw the election as a referendum on the year-old government, led by the Croatian Democratic Union of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/01/02/news/croatia.php (590 words)

	Croatia News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Zagreb Croatians face a run-off presidential election to choose between incumbent president, Stipe Mesiæ, who narrowly failed to win a 50 percent majority, and government Deputy Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, the second runner up.
		Presidential candidate Kosor, incumbent Deputy Prime Minister in the conservative HDZ government, said she achieved her goal of forcing and participating in a run-off election.
		Analysts agree he did not secure a majority in Sunday’s election because his campaign failed to mobilize all his supporters to come out and vote, partly because he was favoured so heavily to win.
	www.croatianewsonline.com /news.php?id=117 (473 words)

	GlobaLex - The Croatian Legal System Guide
		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)

	Thousands arbitrarily deprived of vote in Sri Lankan presidential election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Foreign and local election monitoring groups have hailed the November 17 presidential election in Sri Lanka as “free and fair”, except in the North and East where the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) imposed an informal boycott.
		However, the refusal of the election commissioner’s office to acknowledge the extent to which voters were disenfranchised or to investigate raises obvious concerns.
		It was well known that the election result was going to be close with some of the opinion polls pointing to a narrow victory for the UNP candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe over Mahinda Rajapakse of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/nov2005/sril-n25.shtml (948 words)

	RFE/RL Newsline, 05-01-14
		The report said that the ongoing pressure by the Azerbaijani government on the political opposition reached "a new intensity" in the wake of the 2003 presidential election, as reflected by the trials of over 100 activists, of whom 46 were sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to six years.
		Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych on 14 January filed an appeal with the Supreme Court against the officially announced victory of Viktor Yushchenko in the 26 December presidential vote (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 12 January 2005), Ukrainian and international news agencies reported.
		The Croatian political parties based in Mostar, which is Herzegovina's main city, have endorsed Jadranka Kosor of the Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) in the 16 January Croatian presidential runoff election, Hina reported on 13 January (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 4 January 2005).
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2005/05-01-14.rferl.html (6948 words)

	(E) Canadian Member of Parliament Borys Wrzesnewskyj to the Canadian-Croatian Chamber, May 18, 2006
		Kitchener City Councillor Berry Vrbanovic (past president of Queen Helena Croatian Folklore Group), former three-term Member of Parliament for Cambridge Janko Peric, Associate Critic for Foreign Affairs and Member of Parliament for Etobicoke Centre Borys Wrzesnewskyj, and the President of the Canadian-Croatian Chamber of Commerce John Marion.
		Ever since the Croatian metallurgical expert Master Jacques, or should I say 'strucnjak Jakov', accompanied Samuel de Champlain on his voyage to our country's shores in the early 17th century, the presence of Croatians in their new homeland of Canada has steadily increased.
		The hearty Croatian Licani, from whom my Parliamentary colleague Lynn Yelich, M.P. draws her ancestry, were part of the block settlement in Kenaston, Saskatchewan, just like the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who settled the prairie provinces.
	www.croatianworld.net /Letters/6199.htm (1096 words)

	Venice Commission - Commission de Venise
		Commission has already made clear its position that “the right to stand for election should preferably be acquired at the same age as the right to vote and in any case not later than the age of 25, except where there are specific qualifying ages for certain offices (e.g.
		But, citizens who are abroad on Election Day in the same Council of Europe member states may exercise their right to vote in the diplomatic and consular offices or by mail.
		The Law on Basic Provisions on Elections and Voter Registers of Turkey, in Article 8 prescribes that persons who have been placed under the care of a guardian and who are barred from public service shall not be entitled to vote.
	www.venice.coe.int /docs/2005/CDL-AD(2005)011-e.asp (4333 words)

	The Yugoslav Civil War
		Croatians and Slovenes felt that they paid the country's bills, thanks to Adriatic tourism and industries producing goods for export, and opposed subsidizing unprofitable factories in Serbia and Macedonia.
		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 the presidential election, Milosevic defeated Milan Panic, a US citizen, who campaigned on a peace platform and served as Serbian prime minister for a time before his defeat in the election.
	www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect25.htm (3963 words)

	Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
		Since 2002 Ambassador to Organization for African Unity (OAU), and she is another of the total of 11 Presidential candidates which resulted in the split of the opposition votes and the election of the unpopular candidate of the governing party with only 27% of the votes.
		She is said to consider running in the Presidential Primaries of the governing party of UMP in 2006/07.
		She was declared winner of the elections on 20th of June after 6 weeks of counting.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /candidates2000.htm (2205 words)

	Croatian presidential election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fourth presidential elections in Croatia took place in two rounds in January 2005.
		Mesić gained nearly 49% of the vote in the first round, held on 2 January 2005.
		The elections went to a second round held on 16 January 2005 in which Mesić and Kosor were the only candidates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2005_Presidential_elections_of_Croatia (218 words)

	Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2005 Sri Lankan presidential election: The socialist alternative to war and ...
		The election itself is being held under a state of emergency imposed by the government following the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar in August.
		As soon as the election is over, global capital will demand a new round of cutbacks to budget spending, including the slashing of fuel subsidies and further inroads into essential social services.
		At the 2004 election, the LSSP, which in the 1950s and 1960s had a broad following among workers and the rural poor, failed to win a single electorate and was only rescued from parliamentary oblivion when the SLFP allocated it a national list seat.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/oct2005/sri-o22.shtml (6860 words)

	Croatia News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Croatians face a run-off presidential election to choose between incumbent president, Stipe Mesiæ, who narrowly failed to win a 50 percent majority, and government Deputy Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, the second runner up.
		Current president and presidential candidate Stjepan (Stipe) Mesiæ views the unification of Europe as the undertaking of the millennium and says no one can be excluded from this process.
		Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Raèan presented last week in Brussels European Commission President Romano Prodi with the answers to the Commision’s questionnaire, which will be used to evaluate Croatia’s request for candidacy to join the European Union.
	www.croatianewsonline.com /index.php?cat_id=2 (373 words)

	December 2005 Military News
		AFGHANISTAN: New parliament to meet IRIN 08 Dec 2005 -- Following the appointment of 34 presidential appointees to the 102-seat Meshrano Jirga (the upper house of parliament), Afghanistan's new national assembly is scheduled to convene on 19 December for the first time in more than three decades, an official said on Wednesday.
		U.S. Welcomes Arrest of Accused Croatian War Criminal Washington File 08 Dec 2005 -- The United States congratulated Croatian and Spanish authorities for their efforts in the arrest of General Ante Gotovina, who was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for alleged war crimes against Serbs in Croatia.
		FBI Agents Testify At Georgian Trial RFE/RL 08 Dec 2005 -- In Tbilisi today, FBI officers testified at the trial of a man accused of throwing a hand grenade at the presidents of the United States and Georgia, George W. Bush and Mikheil Saakashvili, during a 10 May public appearance in Tbilisi.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2005/12/12-08_index.htm (1918 words)

	Croatian Presidential Race Enters Run-Off \| Europe \| Deutsche Welle \| 03.01.2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although election precincts reported a lower than expected turnout, he said he was pleased with the outcome.
		DW-WORLD: Growing Croatian Skepticism About EU Croatia's government is hoping to secure a date for accession talks when European Union leaders huddle for their winter summit in Brussels next Thursday despite signs of growing Euroskepticism at home.
		Results from the general election in Croatia clear the way for the nationalistic Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) to return to power after four years in opposition.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1447251,00.html (923 words)

	Palestinian Elections - Articles - VTJP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One month after the elections he warned that any tacit or formal collusion between Israel and the international community to subvert the elected Hamas government by punishing the Palestinian people could well result in their alienation and an increase in the domestic and international standing of Hamas.
		Abbas claims that a crisis exists necessitating elections because Palestinians voted for two programs (his, by electing him chairman of the PA in January 2005), and that of Hamas (which won the legislative election a year later).
		The elections that all Palestinians are demanding today (the millions under occupation and the millions in the refugee camps outside) are for the Palestine National Council, the parliament in exile, which is the national body that represents all Palestinians.
	www.vtjp.org /articles/electionarticles.php (14503 words)

	Pro-EU Croatian President Likely To Be Re-Elected Sunday
		In Croatia, incumbent President Stipe Mesic is expected to be re-elected Sunday in a runoff election against the country's deputy prime minister.
		Kosor, is backed by the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, a conservative party founded by former president Tudjman that won a big victory in parliamentary elections last year.
		High on the U.N.'s most wanted list is the fugitive Croatian General Ante Gotovina, who has been accused of arranging the killing of at least 150 Serb civilians and the expulsion of an estimated 150,000 others after a government operation in 1995 to recapture territory held by Serbian fighters.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-01-15-voa12.cfm (494 words)

	Croatian Presidential Election Set for Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Croatians go to the polls Sunday for a presidential election pitting incumbent Stipe Mesic against 12 challengers.
		If no candidate wins outright on Sunday, a run-off election will be held January 16.
		Her party overwhelmingly won parliamentary elections last year.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/aa/2005-01-01-voa28.html (143 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Croatian Education Ministry allowed officers to teach children
		The Croatian Education Ministry on Friday agreed that army officers can give lessons about the 1991 Serbo-Croat war in elementary schools, despite critics' claims that the move marks a return to communist-style links between schools and the military.
		The Croatian Education Ministry on Friday agreed that army officers can give lessons about the 1991 Serbo-Croat war in elementary schools, despite critics' claims that the move marks a return to communist-style links between schools and the military More details...
		Early unofficial results from Egypt's landmark presidential election on Wednesday indicate a landslide win for President Hosni Mubarak.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/09/09/62605.html (1822 words)

	(E) Jeffrey Lesser Friend of Croatia, January 25, 2005
		His mother said that Jeff is such a big fan of Croatian tennis, he might as well just move to Croatia altogether.
		As a fan of Croatian tennis and of Ivan Ljubicic, I pray that it is just a coincidence that Ivan fails to succeed in the Grand Slams of tennis.
		I pray that one of these days, he will show the world on the grandest stage what a talented player he actually is. I pray that he reaches the third, or even the fourth round (gasp!) of a major this year.
	www.croatianworld.net /Letters/4985.htm (2073 words)

	Boris Miksic
		Losing an election fairly is one thing, but to have to go through the slaughter of defamation of character is completely another.
		And in the U.S. presidential election, voters in Ohio 's Clark County were bombarded with letters from Europeans who asked the Ohioans to vote for John Kerry for the sake of better U.S.-European elections and for world peace.
		Less than fifty percent of the Croatian electorate went to the polls during the last presidential elections, so a relatively small number of people in Croatia reelected Stipe Mesic as their President.
	www.borismiksic.net /en/index.php (3892 words)

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