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  Encyclopedia: Social Democratic Party
The Social Democratic Party (Estonian: Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond), or SDE, is a social democratic party of Estonia, led by Ivari Padar.
The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija) is the ruling political party in Lithuania, formed from the merger of the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Social-Democratic Party.
As social democrats could be elected as list-free candidates while the party was outlawed, it had continued to be a growing force in the parliament, becoming the strongest party in 1912 (in imperial Germany, the parliamentary balance of forces had no influence on the formation of the cabinet).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Social-Democratic-Party   (1612 words)

  
 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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Croatia   (314 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Liberal Democratic Party
The Liberal Democratic Party (Lithuanian: Liberalų Demokratų Partija) of Lithuania is a populist party led by Valentinas Mazuronis.
Politics of Ukraine Politics of Ukraine Political parties in Ukraine Elections in Ukraine: President: 2004 The Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine (Liberalno Demokratuyčna Partija Ukrajiny) is a political party in Ukraine.
The party was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short lived Social Democratic Party (the two parties had already been in an alliance for some years).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal-Democratic-Party   (1240 words)

  
 Liberal Party (Croatia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liberal Party (Croatian Liberalna stranka, LS) is a liberal party in Croatia.
In 2000, the party had two representatives in the Parliament and had one minister in a coalition government with the much larger Social Democratic Party of Croatia.
LS confirmed their two representatives in the Parliament in the 2003 elections, in an alliance with the social democrats, but became part of the opposition.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal%2BParty%2B(Croatia)   (250 words)

  
 A short history of Croatia
Since 9 present-day Croatia is part of the Roman Empire and it becomes in 379 part of the East Roman Empire.
Croatia shares its history with Hungary until 1918, but from 1526 until the early 17th century most of Croatia was occupied by the Ottoman Empire.
It is dominated by ethnic parties, with the exception of the liberal Demokratska Stranka (Democratic Party, DS) and the left-wing parties.
www.electionworld.org /history/croatia.htm   (776 words)

  
 Croatia (08/05)
Terrain: Croatia is situated between central and eastern Europe.
Croatia is made up of 20 counties plus the city of Zagreb and controls 1,185 islands in the Adriatic Sea, 67 of which are inhabited.
Croatia is in the midst of pursuing a policy of greater Euro-Atlantic integration.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3166.htm   (2610 words)

  
 EUguides - Croatia - EUbusiness
Croatia's recent history is dominated by the break-up of the former Yugoslavia during the early 1990s.
Croatia's acceptance into NATO's Membership Action Plan, and signature of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU were key achievements of the post-Tudjman era.
Although Croatia maintained a degree of autonomy, the country was under the influence of Hungary and – from the 16th century onwards – the Hapsburgs for many centuries, eventually being included in the Hungarian kingdom of the Austro-Hungary monarchy in 1867.
www.eubusiness.com /guides/croatia   (703 words)

  
 Social Democratic Party of Croatia
On the party convention on 8 may 2004 a new design of the party symbols were adopted, the new emblem being the red square with slanted boldtype letters SDP (reintroducing the colour red as the symbols of European socaildemocracy and in line with other SD symbols).
The flag is white with the party emblem twice forming the chequy filed in the fly half of the flag, while the hoist half includes the full name of the party inscribed in fl letters aliong the top edge.
The flag is the Croatian tricolour with the party emblem in the middle, consisiting of initials SDH and a red rose.
www.fotw.net /flags/hr}sdp.html   (467 words)

  
 List of political parties in Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Croatia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Croatian Democratic Peasants Party (Hrvatska demokratska seljačka stranka)
Socialist Labour Party of Croatia (Socijalistička radnička partija)
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Croatia   (337 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (Social Democratic Party)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There are a large number of political parties (additional info and facts about political parties) named the Social Democratic Party.
Broadly speaking, a political party which identifies itself by the name Social Democratic Party may be considered as espousing the principles of Social Democracy (The belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means), but the Portuguese and Gibraltarian parties are regarded as exceptions to this rule.
Croatia (A republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991) - Social Democratic Party of Croatia (additional info and facts about Social Democratic Party of Croatia)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/So/Social_Democratic_Party.htm   (1351 words)

  
 flag of Croatia - Political Flags flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
Party of Podunavlje Serbs, PPS (Partija podunavskin Srba)
The party is formed by fractioning of reformistic and centristic members of HDZ after the failure on 2000 election and after the death of president Tudjman.
SDA Hrvatske, Partry of Democratic Action of Croatia (Stranka demokratske akcije Hrvatske) - The flag is green white green, the white struipe beaing of the tripple width of each of the green stripes, with a green crescent whose hoors touch vertical line one third of the flag length from the hoist.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/hr}.html   (1019 words)

  
 Croatia - Political Parties
Social Democratic Party (SDP) is a party with its roots in the values of modern European social democracy.
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)

  
 Homoseksuality
While the establishment of the Republic of Croatia was meant to usher in a West European style liberal democracy, the authoritarian rule of Tudjman and his party, the Hrvatska demokratska zajednica (HDZ, Croatian Democratic Union), hindered the cultural, political and social progress of the gay and lesbian community in Croatia.
To this day, most homosexuals in Croatia are unwilling to publicly come out, and when they do participate in interviews in the Croatian press or publish articles or books with a gay and lesbian theme, they conceal their identities by only giving their initials or a pseudonym.
Another party, the Liberalna stranka (LS, Liberal Party), was the first to directly include homosexuals in its election campaign, which it did for the local elections of May 2001.
www.geocities.com /cssbeograd/croatia.htm   (1110 words)

  
 The FAME: Croatia - Political Flags   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The party flag is vertical light blue with the white lower quarter and with the party emblem in the middle.
The flag is the Croatian tricolour with the party emblem in the middle, consisting of initials SDH and a red rose.
The party is formed in Serb held territories of Croatia during the time of transitional international government in 1995 by the parts of Serb Democratic Party (SDS) willing to undergo changes, and continued to work in Republic of Croatia after reintegration of the regions.
jagor.srce.hr /fame/descr/hr-polit.html   (2010 words)

  
 1994/03/14 22:58 NEW CROATIAN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
Even those that are only vaguely familiar with political theory will easily conclude that the Party has been misnamed, considering that it is only one of the numerous variants of national parties, such as the Party of Right, HSS or HNS, and partly even the Social Democratic Party of Croatia.
As far as regional parties are concerned, and their formation was a direct reaction to Zagreb's centralism and unitarian state, it was considred at one point that they could seriously jeopardize the supremacy of the HDZ, at least in some regions of Croatia.
Nevertheless from the very begining of this Party's activity, it was clear that it was inflicted with the same syndrome as the HDZ, since what the HDZ was at the level of Croatia, the IDS was in Istria.
www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199403/40314-002-trae-zag.htm   (1156 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.
Winner of the third parliamentary elections since Croatia became an independent state is the coalition made of Social Democratic Party of Croatia -SDP (reformed communists) headed by Ivica Racan and Croatian Social- liberal Party (HSLS) led by Drazen Budisa.
War in Croatia was over then and the reality started t o show its revolting face of the ruling HDZ oligarchy characterised by unprecedented misuse of power, catastrophic privatisation that was destroying tens of thousands workplaces only to suck out the capital and to transfer it abroad and many corruption, financial and secret service scandals.
www.idee.org /nij156.html   (4990 words)

  
 Croatia - Political Flags   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The party was established by a LIBRA member that apparently opposed with to the merger with HNS.
The party emblem is described in the Statutes (Statut IDS-DDI, 23.03.2002 ): a white disk in green field with three goats white, two over one, facing to the dexter, with the full name in all three languages inscribed around the disk.
This is an alliance of numerous local parties in the north Croatian littoral and mountainoius hinterground (roughly the Rijeka region).
www.buschauer.dynip.com /fotw/flags/hr}.html   (1649 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Social Democratic Party
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 Nezavisne Novine, interview with Sejfudin Tokic, vice-president of the Social-Democratic Party of Bosnia-Hercegovina, ...
TOKIC: After the elections in Croatia and the complete victory of the Social Democratic Party and other democratic parties, the Croat Democratic Alliance in BH is completely disoriented while the SDA for a number of years has been continuously losing influence among the voters.
The change in structure and relations in favor of the Social Democratic Party on the political scene in the Federation and throughout BH is realistically to be expected at the upcoming elections.
TOKIC: The Social Democratic Party of BH is participating in 108 municipalities of which 35 are in RS and 73 are in the BH Federation.
www.ex-yupress.com /neznov/neznov18.html   (3554 words)

  
 Croatia Hrvatska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 1990 election in Croatia, then a republic of Yugoslavia, produced a landslide victory for the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), led by Dr. Franjo Tudjman, a former communist general turned nationalist dissident.
Many in Croatia, as confirmed by their government, were uneasy with the hardline tactics of the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic.
Racan was actually the last Croatian communist leader, but he has succeeded in transforming the Social Democratic Party, the successor to the Yugoslav-era League of Communists, into a progressive, center-left party.
www.unc.edu /courses/2002spring/rues/230/001/Croatia/cropol.htm   (1047 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tito was born in Kumrovec, northwestern Croatia, in an area called Zagorje, which was then part of Austria-Hungary.
Tito was a prominent leader of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia that convened in Bihać in 1942 and Jajce in 1943 and established the basis for post-war organisation of the country, making it a federation.
Tito's rule had dictatorial traits as well as elements of terror, as the Communist Party won the first post-war elections under unfair conditions and maintained its grasp on power using the secret police (notably the infamous "UDBA"), politically motivated trials and imprisonment, and assassinations.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/josip_broz_tito.html   (1210 words)

  
 2000/01/07 02:20 Election Victory of Democratic Croatia
In the first reactions after the elections, leaders of the victorious two, Ivica Racan and Drazen Budisa were themselves surprised by the decisiveness of their victory which they expected but not with such a large majority.
Majority of analysts consider their campaign to be the most convincing, better even than the campaign of the victorious coalition, and especially than that of HDZ and all the other parties.
The shortest evaluation is summarised in the statement which says that if independent Croatia was born in 1990 elections, then after ten bloody years, democratic Croatia was born in 2000 elections.
www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/200001/00107-001-trae-zag.htm   (690 words)

  
 Kokkalis Program
A coalition government comprising the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS), Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS), Liberal Party (LS) and Croatian People's Party (HNS) was formed on January 27th, 2000.
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the UN
Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Washington
www.ksg.harvard.edu /kokkalis/region_croatia.html   (368 words)

  
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The Prime Minister and the leader of the Social Democratic Party in Croatia, Ivica Račan, visited Great Britain from September 23 to 27, upon the invitation of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
They both offered every possible assistance to Croatia and supported organizing of a meeting of countries neighboring the FRY in Zagreb as soon as possible, after similar meetings were held in Bulgaria and Hungary.
Moscovici and his colleagues showed that Croatia is definitely an applicant country for a full-fledged membership in the EU, stated Jakovčić.
www.vlada.hr /bulletin/2000/september/cro-wrld-full.html   (564 words)

  
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Prime Minister IVICA RAČAN President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia
1990 Elected to the House of Representatives of the Croatian National Sabor, where as leader of the democratic wing of the former SKH he renamed and reformed the party into the Party of Democratic Change (1990) and, in 1991 into the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP).
Contributed to the rallying and co-operation of the six major opposition parties with the goal and strengthening position and advancing democracy in Croatia.
www.vlada.hr /bulletin/2000/january/government-full-racan.html   (381 words)

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