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Cabinet Of Ivica Račan II
The Eight Government of the Republic of Croatia ( hr, Osma Vlada Republike Hrvatske) was the second of two Croatian Government cabinets led by Prime Minister Ivica Račan. It was announced on 30 July 2002 and its term ended on 23 December 2003. Račan's second cabinet was formed after Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) had decided to leave the ruling six-party coalition. The cabinet was succeeded by Cabinet of Ivo Sanader I, following the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union's return to power in the 2003 parliamentary elections. Parties included in the government: * Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) *Croatian People's Party (HNS) *Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) *Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) *Liberal Party (LS) Motions of confidence Party breakdown Party breakdown of cabinet ministers (23 December 2003): Changes from Cabinet of Ivica Račan I Following the exit of IDS (in June 2001) and HSLS (in July 2002) from the rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivica Račan
Ivica Račan (; 24 February 1944 – 29 April 2007) was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments. Račan became the first prime minister of Croatia not to be a member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), namely the opposition coalition headed by his Social Democratic Party (SDP) won the 2000 parliamentary election and came to power for the first time since independence. He was the leader of the party, initially called the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH) from 1990 to 2007. Before becoming prime minister, he served in the capacity of Leader of the Opposition on two occasions: firstly, from the first multi-party elections in May 1990 until the formation of a national unity government under Franjo Gregurić in July 1991; and secondly, from his defeat in the 2003 general election by Ivo Sanader until his death on 29 April 2007. Early life Račan was born on 24 February 1944 in Ebersba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabinet Of Ivo Sanader I
The Ninth Government of the Republic of Croatia ( hr, Deveta Vlada Republike Hrvatske) was the first of two Croatian Government cabinets led by Prime Minister of Croatia, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader. It was announced on 23 December 2003 and its term ended on 12 January 2008. All but two cabinet members came from the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, following their win in the Croatian parliamentary election, 2003, 2003 parliamentary elections (with the exception of Dragan Primorac, who was formally a non-party minister at the time of his appointment, but later joined HDZ and Vesna Škare-Ožbolt who had been a member of HDZ in the 1990s but then joined the Democratic Centre (Croatia), Democratic Centre, a small centre-right party which allied with HDZ after the 2003 elections). Motions of confidence Party breakdown Party breakdown of cabinet ministers (12 January 2008): Changes from Cabinet of Ivica Račan II Since Račan's centre-left coalition was replaced by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defence (Croatia)
The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia ( hr, Ministarstvo obrane Republike Hrvatske or MORH) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of the nation's military. It is Croatia's ministry of defence. The ministry was established in 1990. Structure Elements in the ministry's structure are:http://www.morh.hr/en/o-nama/ustroj-ministarstva/structure-of-the-ministry-of-defence.html * Defence Minister and Deputy Minister * Minister's Cabinet * Chief Secretariat ** Sector for Administrative and Legal Affairs * Croatian Armed Forces General Staff * Defence Inspectorate * Military Security and Intelligence Agency * Independent Sector for Public Procurement * Independent Department for Public Affairs and Publishing * Independent Section for Internal Auditing * Independent Department for Military Air Traffic * Independent Department for supporting Military Ordinary in Croatia * Defence Policy Directorate and the assigned Assistant Minister ** Defence Polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivo Banac
Ivo Banac (; 1 March 1947 – 30 June 2020) was a Croatian-American historian, a professor of European history at Yale University and a politician of the former Liberal Party in Croatia, known as the Great Bard of Croatian historiography. , Banac was a consultant for the Bosnian Institute. He died after a serious illness at age 73. Biography Banac was born in Dubrovnik in 1947. In 1959 he emigrated to the United States with his mother, reuniting with his father who had escaped from Yugoslavia in 1947. After his father's death in a traffic accident a year later, Ivo lived with his mother in New York City, where he studied history at Fordham University, graduating in 1969. In the same year Banac moved to California, where he obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford University. Although he was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, by his own account he was not attracted by the West Coast flower power movement of the late 1960s. Banac worked at the Stanford Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Božo Kovačević (politician)
Božo Kovačević (born 11 January 1955) is a Croatian politician and diplomat. Kovačević was born in Pakrac and he graduated in sociology and philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb.http://www.mvep.hr/hr/predstavnistva/poslanici/kovacevic-bozo/ Kovačević was one of the founders of the Croatian Social Liberal Party in 1989, and the Liberal Party in 1998. Kovačević was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia to the Russian Federation from January 2004 to February 2009. He was the Minister of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning in the 7th and 8th Government of the Republic of Croatia, from January 2000 to July 2003. See also * Embassy of Croatia in Moscow The Embassy of Croatia in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of Croatia in the Russian Federation. It is located at 16 Korobeynikov Lane (russian: Коробейников пер., 16/10) in the Khamovniki District of Moscow. See also * Croatia ... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozo Radoš
Jozo Radoš (; born 3 November 1956) is a Croatian liberal politician currently serving as one out of 11 Croatian members of the European Parliament. He previously served as a Minister of Defence, member of the Croatian Parliament and as an observer in the European Parliament for Croatia. Biography Native Bosnian Croat, Radoš was born in Seonica village in Duvno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He attended elementary school in Đakovo and gymnasium in Zagreb. In 1983 he graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of University of Zagreb. From 1983 until 1986 he worked as a professor of history and electrical engineering in Osijek and Đakovo. From 1986 until 1990 he worked as designer of the development of system of power electronics in KONČAR Group. In 1990 he joined Croatian Social Liberal Party where he served as party's vice president until 1998. From 1990 until 1992 he worked as technologist of electronics in bulbs factory in Zagreb. In 1992 he became member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlado Gotovac
Vladimir "Vlado" Gotovac (18 September 1930 – 7 December 2000) was a Croatian poet and politician. Early activism In the late 1960s, Gotovac joined the Croatian movement demanding political and economic reform, which eventually led to the Croatian Spring in the early 1970s. Unlike the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, the Croatian Spring wasn't violently quashed by military use, although it resulted the period known as "the Croatian silence", alluding to the Yugoslav government's tremendous skill in suppressing any opposition or criticism. Before being arrested in 1971 Gotovac became the editor-in-chief of ''Hrvatski Tjednik'' (''The Croatian Weekly''), which historian Marcus Tanner explains, "was a real phenomenon – a mass-circulation newspaper with an enormous audience that went way beyond the confines of the Communist Party and made a national reputation." Imprisonment Growing up in Tito's Yugoslavia, Gotovac was arrested in January 1972 and sentenced to four years in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Budiša
Dražen Budiša (born 25 July 1948) is a Croatian politician who used to be a leading opposition figure in the 1990s and a two-time presidential candidate. As president of the Croatian Social Liberal Party through the 1990s he remains to date the only Leader of the Opposition not to have been from either the Croatian Democratic Union or the Social Democratic Party. Biography During Yugoslavia Budiša was born in Drniš, People's Republic of Croatia, within the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied Philosophy and Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and took part in the Croatian Spring in the 1970s. For his activities he was later sent to Lepoglava prison by Communist authorities. Before the arrival of democracy he worked as a librarian. In 1989 he was one of the founders of Croatian Social Liberal Party and later its leader. During the 1990 elections his party joined the Coalition of People's Accord and fared badly, including Budiša who failed to win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats
Croatian may refer to: *Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capit ... * Croatian language * Croatian people * Croatians (demonym) See also * * * Croatan (other) * Croatia (other) * Croatoan (other) * Hrvatski (other) * Hrvatsko (other) * Serbo-Croatian (other) {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats
The Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats ( hr, Hrvatska narodna stranka – Liberalni demokrati or HNS – LD) is a social-liberal political party in Croatia. As of April 2015 HNS forms a parliamentary club with 5 members in the Croatian Parliament, making them the fourth largest party in Croatia in terms of parliament representation. HNS is a full member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. Since 17 December 2017, the party's leader has been Ivan Vrdoljak. Origins The People's Party in Croatia was originally formed in 1841, during the period of Croatian romantic nationalism. The Croatian People's Party describes the events of the Illyrian movement since 1835 as its history.. After 1861 the People's Party was known as the People's Liberal Party, its main splinter party was the Independent People's Party (1880–1903) which became more pro-autonomist, while the "old" People's Party developed into "party of the Settlement" having collaborated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Croatian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections to elect all 151 members of the Croatian Parliament were held on 23 November 2003. They were the fifth parliamentary elections to take place since the first multi-party elections in 1990. Voter turnout was 61.7%. The result was a victory for the opposition Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) which won a plurality of 66 seats, but fell short of the 76 needed to form a government. HDZ chairman Ivo Sanader was named the eighth Prime Minister of Croatia on 23 December 2003, after parliament passed a confidence motion in his government cabinet, with 88 MPs voting in favor, 29 against and 14 abstaining. The ruling coalition going into the elections, consisting of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Croatian People's Party (HNS), Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and the Liberal Party (LS), did not contest the elections as a single bloc; the SDP ran with the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS), the Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istrian Democratic Assembly
The Istrian Democratic Assembly ( hr, Istarski demokratski sabor, it, Dieta democratica istriana or IDS-DDI) is a centre to centre-left, regionalist, liberal political party in Croatia primarily operating in Istria County. IDS was founded on the 14 February 1990 by the writer Ivan Pauletta. IDS embraces principles of respect for human rights and freedoms, regionalism and historical characteristics of Istria, protection of private property and anti-fascism. Party advocates decentralization of Croatia, further development of the Adriatic Euroregion and the establishment of a transnational and cross-border euro-region encompassing the whole of Istria. The party president is currently Dalibor Paus, municipal mayor of Barban. IDS held the Ministry of European Integration between 2000 and 2001 in the Cabinet of Ivica Račan and Ministry of Tourism between 2011 and 2015 in the Cabinet of Zoran Milanović. IDS member Boris Miletić serves as current County Prefect of the Istrian Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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