Kroatische Partei - Hrvatska Stranka Prava, Kroatische Bauernpartei, Hrvatski Demokratski Sabor Slavonije I Baranje (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Hrvatska Stranka Prava, Kroatische Bauernpartei, Hrvatski Demokratski Sabor Slavonije I Baranje, Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica, Socijaldemokratska Partija Hrvatske, Istrische Demokratische Versammlung, Hrvatska Narodna Stranka, Kroatische Sozial-Liberale Partei, Samostalna Demokratska Srpska Stranka, Kroatische Rentnerpartei. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: The Croatian Democratic Union (Croatian: ) is the main center-right political party in Croatia. The Christian democratic HDZ governed Croatia from 1990 to 2000 and, in partial coalition, from 2003 to 2010. The party is an associate member of the European People's Party (EPP). The HDZ was founded in June 1989 by Croatian nationalist dissidents led by the late Franjo Tuman. When the party was founded, the multi-party system in Croatia was at an embryonic stage and open manifestations of Croatian nationalism were frowned upon. The HDZ was founded in an almost conspiratorial manner, and its first offices were in one Zagreb shack. Because of that the party founders proudly call themselves barakai - from "baraka", which is the Croatian word for "shack". Despite such humble beginnings, the party quickly benefited from the loosening of Communist control. Tuman and other HDZ officials traveled abroad and gathered large financial contributions from Croatian expatriates with this reflected in a more nationalist HDZ platform. On the eve of the 1990 elections, the ruling Croatian Communist Party saw such tendencies within the HDZ as an opportunity to remain in power. The voting system was tailored to favour the two strongest parties and it was assumed that Croatian voters would opt for the ruling Communists, re-branded in as the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, as a lesser evil than the HDZ which was described as "the party of dangerous intentions". At the elections this proved to be miscalculation, because the overwhelming majority of Croatian people that actu...http://booksllc.net/?l=de