Croatia
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Lost Croatia to independence on June 25, 1991. Since then Croatia has made extensive progress in its attempts and struggles to form a democratic state. Croatia's government consists of a presidential parliamentary system. Croatia's democratic transition began back in 1989, "when the LCY (League of Communists of Yugoslavia) gave in to Eastern and Central Europe's democratic tide and legalized other political parties." (History) As a result, throughout the 90's Croatia formed new major political parties, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS). Together the SDP and the HSLS formed a coalition with the Croatian Peasants' Party, they named the party the Croatian people's party (HNS). Problems arose when Nationalist Franjo Tudjman became President of the Republic in 1990; he immediately began to fire Serbs from positions of political power. This began or rather resulted from a series of ethnic problems that took place throughout the former Yugoslavia, lead
Annual Report on Human Rights, " The report praised democratic transitions in Croatia. " (Croatian Democratic Union) During this time the party and leaders did what they could to make the transition to Democracy smooth, quick and beneficial to everyone. com) This leads me to believe that Croatia does indeed have a good chance of maintaining and improving their Democracy. It seems that the first need of Croatian nationalism is to eradicate the negative energy accumulated during the last 900 years of statelessness. Once this energy runsout, the new arena for democratization will open. However this one claim unfortunately cannot erase years of hatred that the citizens feel amongst themselves, and this effects commerce, hiring and voting, therefore it dampers the potential for democracy. However, it is possible that the journey could take too long for an ethnically diverse pluralist society to survive. The new Croatian constitution places power in the hands of theprivileged Croatians, whose leaders are not ready to build an all-inclusive subtantive democracy. Vuckovic feels that, "Croatia missed an opportunity while introducing a new constitution in 1990 to generate dialogue among its constituent people and address the centuries of mutual life shared by the Croats and Serbs. (Sacco)The ethnic tension that took place between people and the countries strained relations definitely had a negative effect on each countries ability to integrate into successfully Democratic societies. " The Croatian Democratic Union dominated Croatian politics for the first ten years of the countries independence, from 1990 until the death of President and Party leader Franjo Tudjiman in December of 1999.
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