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Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review (992 words) |
 | Stipe Mesić, the candidate of the Croatian People's Party (HNS), supported by other parties in the "Group of Four" (HSS Croatian Peasants Party, IDS Istrian Democratic Assembly and LS Liberal Party), won the first place at the presidential elections that were carried out on 24 January. |
| Mate Granić of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) came in third with 22.47 per cent of the vote, and an independent candidate, Slaven Letica, was on the fourth place with 4.14 per cent. |
| The candidate of the New Croatia (NH) party, Ante Prkačin, came in eighth with 0.28 per cent of the vote, while the last in the standing was independent candidate and former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Justice, Zvonimir Šeparović, with 0.27 per cent of the vote. |
| Croatia - Political Parties (610 words) |
| Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was founded by Franjo Tudjman in 1989 originally as a platform-movement-like party but was soon transformed into a nationalist movement. |
| Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) was founded in 1904 under Stjepan Radic and Vlatko Macek and represented roughly 80 to 90 percent of the Croatian electorate during the period between World War I and World War II. |
| Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) was founded in 1990, and, despite its keen sense of nationalism and xenophobia, the HSP did not present a substantial threat to the HDZ’s power base largely because it has had a tendency to fragment. |
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