Elections for the Second Assembly of the Chamber of Counties of the Croatian Parliament were held in Croatia on 13 April 1997.

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& Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p410 The result was a victory for the

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, which won 40 of the 63 elected seats. This was the last election for the Chamber of Counties, which was abolished through a constitutional amendment on 29 March 2001.

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facilitated the conduct of elections in the United Nations protectorate region of

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Results

President

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had the constitutional right to appoint up to five members of the Chamber of Counties. He chose to exercise that right by naming

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, Jovan Bamburač, Slobodan Lang, Vojislav Stanimirović and

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to the chamber.

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