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Political parties and leaders: |
Croatian Bloc or HB [Ivic PASALIC];
Croatian Christian Democratic Union or HKDU [Anto KOVACEVIC];
Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ [Ivo SANADER];
Croatian Party of Rights or HSP [Anto DJAPIC];
Croatian Peasant Party or HSS [Zlatko TOMCIC];
Croatian People's Party or HNS [Vesna PUSIC];
Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS [Drazen BUDISA];
Croatian True Revival Party or HIP [Miroslav TUDJMAN];
Democratic Centre or DC [Mate GRANIC];
Istrian Democratic Assembly or IDS [Ivan JAKOVCIC];
Liberal Party or LS [Ivo BANAC];
Party of Liberal Democrats or LIBRA [Goran GRANIC];
Social Democratic Party of Croatia or SDP [Ivica RACAN]
note: the Social Democratic Party or SDP and the Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS formed a coalition as did the HSS, HNS, LP, and IDS, which together defeated the Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ in the 2000 lower house parliamentary election; the IDS subsequently left the governing coalition in June 2001 over its inability to win greater autonomy for Istria |
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Political pressure groups and leaders: |
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Sources: CIA World Factbook, 2003 |
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