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	istrians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Istrians are inhabitants of Istria, a peninsula at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Gulf of Quarnero, the region spanning the borders of Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.
		The ancient Istrians, known to the Romans as a fierce tribe of Illyrian pirates, protected by the difficult navigation of their rocky coasts, were only subdued by the Romans in 177 BCE after two military campaigns.
		Since the first multi-party elections in 1990, the regional party Istrian Democratic Assembly (Istarski Demokratski Sabor or Dieta Democratica Istriana) has consistently received an absolute majority of the vote and maintained a position often contrary to the government in Zagreb with regards to their regional autonomy.
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	Social Democratic Party of Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (Croatian: Socijaldemokratska Partija Hrvatske) is the main social democratic political party in Croatia.
		Its delegation left the 17th congress of the Communist Parties of Yugoslavia together with the Slovenians due to inability to cooperate with the Serbian Communist Party led by Slobodan Milošević.
		Račan, as the leader of the strongest party, became the prime minister of Croatia.
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	Istrian Democratic Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Istrian Democratic Assembly (Croatian: Istarski Demokratski Sabor, Italian: Dieta Democratica Istriana) is a Croatian regional political party in Istria.
		The party decided not to participate, thus allowing Communists, recently rebranded into Social Democratic Party of Croatia, to make a sweep of the region.
		In Istria, however, IDS is bitterly opposed by local branches of SDP, as well as their former member and first Istrian prefect Luciano Delbianco who had defected and formed new party called Istrian Democratic Forum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Istrian_Democratic_Assembly (350 words)

	Encyclopedia: Istrian Democratic Forum
		Istrian Democratic Forum (Croatian: Istarski demokratski forum, IDF) is a regional political party in Istria County of Croatia.
		It was founded by dissident faction of Istrian Democratic Assembly, led by Luciano Delbianco, former prefect of Istria County.
		The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (Croatian: Socijaldemokratska Partija Hrvatske) is the main socialist (Social Democrat) political party in Croatia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Istrian-Democratic-Forum (224 words)

	Encyclopedia: Istrian Democratic Assembly
		The second free multi-party elections for Croatian Parliament were held on August 2nd 1992 in conjuction with 1992 Presidential elections of Croatia.
		The Croatian Democratic Union (Croatian: Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica, HDZ), is a major Croatian political party.
		IDS main policy is to achieve greater autonomy for Istria and equal status of Italian and Croatian in Istria.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Istrian-Democratic-Assembly (700 words)

	List of political parties in Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Istrian Democratic Assembly (Istarski demokratski sabor/Dieta Democratica Istriana)
		Croatian Democratic Peasants Party (Hrvatska demokratska seljačka stranka)
		Democratic Union of Hungarians of Croatia (Demokratska Zajednica Mađara Hrvatske)
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Croatia (323 words)

	1995/07/10 21:17 ISTRIA DEFIES ZAGREB
		Both times, or perhaps one should say all three times since the elections for the Assembly Chamber of Districts were held in spring 1993 immediately after the action Maslenica, despite enormous invested efforts and a lot of invested money, the HDZ won only a little over fifteen per cent of the votes.
		Through its IDS, the Istrians have, actually, advocated decentralization of Croatia and recognition of historic and natural regions, and most of the differences within the party were caused by the level of autonomy, and the idea of Istria as a transfrontier region.
		As the greatest achievements of the party, he listed Istria's joining the Assembly of European Regions, which meant that the slogan "Istria - a region in Europe of Regions" was effectuated, adoption of the Statute of the District of Istria, regardless of the fact that the Constitutional Court had proclaimed 18 of its articles invalid.
	www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199507/50710-001-trae-zag.htm (1180 words)

	Istria County (Croatia)
		The traditional Istrian coat of arms, that Istria was granted as separate land in Habsburg monarchy - the golden goat with red horns and hoofs, is adopted as the modern arms, too.
		Istrian Coat of Arms and flag are adopted in the county assembly on 03-OCT-1994.
		Even if today the Istrian regionalst feeling is politically infloencial, and certainly the coat of arms is not forgotten (it is even included in Croatian CoA) the tricolour flag seems not to be used at all, unless it is used in Italy by some groups I am not avare of.
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	Istria on the Internet - News Articles
		In the presidential elections held last month in the district of Istria in western Croatia, the winner was the president of the Istrian Democratic Assembly, Ivan Jakovcic.
		Italians resided on the Dalmatian coast and on the Istrian Peninsula to its north in the period of the Roman Empire; elements of Venetian architecture and culture have been apparent in the region since the 10th century.
		Nevertheless, a clause on the right of return of Italian refugees to their homeland was not included in the peace treaty between Yugoslavia and Italy that was signed in Paris in 1947, when these regions were annexed to Yugoslavia after having been under Italian and Italian-German rule during the last years of the war.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/news/europe/misc/02_0423refugees.htm (1228 words)

	History and Program
		At the elections for the Chamber of Representatives of the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia - Sabor (August, 1992), IDS candidates won in three electoral units, and in a coalition with the Dalmatian Action and the Democratic Association of Rijeka, the IDS won 3.11 percent of votes.
		At the elections for the Chamber of Counties of the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia, the IDS won all three seats designated for the Istria County.
		The IDS is a regional political party primarily active in Istria in the territory of the Republic of Croatia, as well as in those parts of the Istrian peninsula which are under the sovereignty of the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Italy.
	www.hidra.hr /strankeE/programi/028357e.htm (206 words)

	Croatia - Political Flags
		Democratic Union of Medimurje, MDS (Medimurski demokratski savez)
		Social Democratic Union of Croatia, SDU (Socijalno-demokratska unija Hrvatske)
		By its statutes defines a flag that is orange with the party emblem in the middle.
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	August 9, 1993 Vreme News Digest Agency No 98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Istrians, however, seem to have had enough of such treatment and have opted for a more aggressive style.
		On the other hand, Istrians have for months now been complaining about the forced ``Croatianizing of Istria'' and the imposition of a crass and extremist Herzegovinaesque (as they call it) Croatianness.
		Since Istrians found themselves separated into two states after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, they now say they want to create conditions for the withering away of borders.
	www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/98/t98-4.htm (578 words)

	1995/10/13 20:22 TUDJMAN'S LIST OF THE OBEDIENT
		This is in itself a step forward in relation to the 1992 elections, which is even more evident with lists of 28 election units in which parties have one candidate each.
		If the obvious irregularities are disregarded, which would have been a case for the financial police if this were not a typical party state, one could say that the propagandist staff of the HDZ has shown more professionalism than in the previous years.
		The messages of the spots seen on TV are not as "loud" as those in the last election campaign, when the Istrian Democratic Assembly, for instance, was defamed in a specially made cartoon as a sympathizer of Serb Chetniks and Italian Fascists.
	www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199510/51013-001-trae-zag.htm (1153 words)

	1998/02/01 23:26 PROJECT OF THE LAND OF ISTRIA
		The "range" is stated precisely in the project, which says that "the citizens of Istria must not be forced to serve anybody, not even their own compatriots", and that "going into military, police and other services and formations outside Istria is done by the citizen of Istria on their own responsibility".
		It is explained that it is "uncivilisational and humiliating to force Istrian young men to participate in regressive and criminal nationalistic wars.
		In the project the Land of Istria demands with which the citizens of Istria will appear at the Assembly of Croatia are precisely listed: adoption of the constitution of the Land of Istria, defining of its legislative rights and responsibilities, its own fiscal system, its own judiciary, its own territorial police.
	www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199802/80201-006-trae-zag.htm (1231 words)

	Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review
		Stipe Mesić, the candidate of the Croatian People's Party (HNS), supported by other parties in the "Group of Four" (HSS Croatian Peasants Party, IDS Istrian Democratic Assembly and LS Liberal Party), won the first place at the presidential elections that were carried out on 24 January.
		Mate Granić of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) came in third with 22.47 per cent of the vote, and an independent candidate, Slaven Letica, was on the fourth place with 4.14 per cent.
		Recent parliamentary elections in Croatia, as well as the democratic way in which they were conducted, opened a new phase in Croatian politics.
	www.ce-review.org /00/4/croatianews4.html (992 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.
		Another part of Croatian democratic opposition which went to the elections is a coalition made out of five parties (Liberal Party, Croatian Peasants Party, Croatian People's Party, Social Democratic Action of Croatia and regional party Istrian Democratic Assembly).
		The previous week, the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe had warned that if by the middle of January, Russian had not ceased its war operation in Chechnya, then its membership in the council would be suspended, and moreover, economic sanctions would be levied against Moscow.
	www.idee.org /nij156.html (4990 words)

	Nations in Transit 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the April 13, 1997 upper-house balloting, held under a 71 percent turnout, the HDZ won 40 seats, the Croatian Peasant Party, 9; Croatian Social-Liberal Party, 6; Social Democratic Party of Croatia-Party of Democratic Changes, 4; the Istrian Democratic Assembly, 2; and the Croatian Party of Rights, 2.
		In the June 15, 1997, presidential elections, held under a 57 percent turnout, Tudjman won another five-year term with a reported 61 percent of the vote, defeating Zdravko Tomac of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia-Party of Democratic Changes, with 21 percent, and Vlado Gotovac of the Croatian Social-Liberal Pary, with 18 percent.
		Several parties represent minorities, including the Istrian Democratic Assembly, composed largely of ethnic Italians and other minorities in Istria; the Serbian National Party, which opposes Serb separatism; the Independent Democratic Serbian Party, which includes both separatist and non-separatist Serbs; and the Muslim-based Croatian Muslim Democratic Party.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/nitransit/2000/croatia/croatia_democ.htm (4703 words)

	eLibrary Project : Istrian Democratic Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		"Istrian Democratic Assembly" (Croatian language,Croatian: ''Istarski Demokratski Sabor'', Italian language,Italian: ''Dieta Democratica Istriana'') is a Croatian regional political party in Istria.
		Their main policy is to achieve greater autonomy for Istria and equal status of Italian Language,Italian and Croatian language,Croatian in Istria.
	elibraryproject.com /info/Istrian_Democratic/Assembly.html (184 words)

	Nations in Transit 1998: Croatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Labor unions held various assemblies and demonstrations, as did associations of war veterans, pensioners, and the families of persons missing from the war.
		Critics argue that these improvements were largely an effort by the HDZ to portray Croatia as "western," i.e., democratic, while others suggest that the improvements were an investment in Croatia's future and were meant to attract western investors in order to stimulate the economy.
		The decisions concerned the misuse of the Croatian Army for the promotion of the ruling party, a television report that suggested that Social Democrats are murderers, and a poster charging the Social Democrats with abuses of freedoms during the Communist regime.
	freedomhouse.org /nit98/croatia.html (12831 words)

	Croatia (08/05)
		The death of President Tudjman in December 1999, followed by the election of a coalition government and President in early 2000, brought significant changes to Croatia.
		The powers of the legislature include enactment and amendment of the constitution, passage of laws, adoption of the state budget, declarations of war and peace, alteration of the boundaries of the republic, and carrying out elections and appointments to office.
		U.S. engagement in Croatia is aimed at fostering a democratic, secure, and market-oriented society that will be a strong partner in Euro-Atlantic institutions.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3166.htm (2610 words)

	Croatian Democratic Peasants Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is led by Ivo Lončar, a popular television news reporter who was elected as a member of the 2000-2003 Parliament from the (Click link for more info and facts about Croatian Peasant Party) Croatian Peasant Party list.
		He subsequently left the party and became an independent deputy.
		In the November 2003 elections he led the party list of HDSS and two other smaller parties and managed to retain his seat in the (A legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)) Parliament.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Cr/Croatian_Democratic_Peasants_Party.htm (109 words)

	Istrian Democratic Assembly - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Istrian Democratic Assembly - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	1998/02/09 22:15 NEW CROATIAN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
		This was clear already in the local elections in the seaside and mountain district, when the parties of the "Family" headed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) easily beat HDZ, and the peasants who by no means wanted to go along with the communists, failed to win a single seat in the district assembly.
		Budisa and Tomcic are already recognized by the public as hangers-on of the HDZ, who are the true culprits for breaking up of the centre and for bipolarisation of Croatia.
		Budisa's HSLS was definitely compromised after the elections in Zagreb, but also because the manner in which it squared accounts with those who were their colleagues until just recently.
	www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199802/80209-012-trae-zag.htm (982 words)

	Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review
		Presidents of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS), Zlatko Tomcic, the Croatian People's Party (HNS), Radimir Cacic, the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS), Ivan Jakovcic, and the Liberal Party (LS), Vlado Gotovac, signed an agreement on co-operation in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Croatia.
		In their statement, called "Warning to Politicians and Invitation to Citizens," they called for free, fair and democratic elections that would represent the real interest of the people and respect democratic principles, "which is not the case at the moment."
		The bill on Value Added Tax submitted by Croatia's ruling party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), was adopted by the House of Counties of the Sabo (Parliament).
	www.ce-review.org /99/15/croatianews15.html (1313 words)

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		There had been talk that Tudjman would call the vote around the holiday, but in the face of negative reaction from the public, political opposition, the international community, and quietly, the Church, he had been expected to drop the idea.
		The first bloc is comprised of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) led by reformist ex-communist Ivica Racan and the Croatian Social Democratic Party (HSLS) of the moderate nationalist Drazen Budisa.
		Polls indicate that the two coalition blocs will collectively take the necessary two-thirds share of the seats in parliament needed to change the constitution and thus roll back Tudjman's own extensive powers, boosted by years of control over the house.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_19991026_4_eng.txt (1081 words)

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