The Party was formed in 2000 by Mate Granić who left the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) after their loss on legislative elections and his presidential elections loss. DC proclamed itself as moderate version of HDZ. In 2003 DC got 1 ministerial seat in the Croatian Government. At the end of 2004, Granić left DC after several financial public scandals.
The party is led by Vesna Škare Ožbolt and has one representative in the Croatian Parliament.
The Democratic Party won the plurality of votes on the first elections held in 1920, and until 1929 they participated in creation of the government, either independently or in a coalition.
Democratic Party was one of the founders and the biggest party of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), and its member until the breakup of the coalition.
New prime minister Zoran Živković, also from Democratic Party, attempted to continue reforms in a fashion of his predecessor, but government was given no confidence vote at the end of the year 2003.
The DemocraticCentre (Croatian: Demokratski centar, DC) is a Croatian political party.
The Party was formed in 2000 by Mate Granić who left the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) after their loss on legislative elections and his presidential elections loss.
At the last legislative elections, 23 november 2003, an alliance of the Croatian Social Liberal Party and the DemocraticCentre won 4.0 % of the popular vote and 3 out of 151 seats.
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