It was founded in 1995 following the removal of Dobroslav Paraga from the leadership of Croatian Party of Rights and Paraga's unsuccessful attempts to revert this at courts.

Volunteers arrived from other parts of Croatia, including from the far-right paramilitary Croatian Defence Forces ( HOS ) backed by Dobroslav Paraga's extreme nationalist Croatian Party of Rights ( HSP ).

Paraga's growing popularity, together with his militia, began to look like a serious threat to the Croatian government.

The annual spring meeting has given an impetus in three main directions: more, deeper, and more timely political consultation within the alliance, the use of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( when ratified ) as a method of coordinating aid to the underdeveloped countries, and the need for strengthening conventional forces as well as the maintenance of the nuclear deterrent.

It is organised since 1977 by the Junge Union, the youth branch of Germany's two main conservative political parties, the CDU and CSU, and attracts all age groups from Abensberg and surrounding areas.

He was born into the aristocratic governing class of Mytilene, the main city of Lesbos, where he was involved in political disputes and feuds.

The assembly had four main functions: it made executive pronouncements ( decrees, such as deciding to go to war or granting citizenship to a foreigner ); it elected some officials ; it legislated ; and it tried political crimes.

Africa is a continent comprising 62 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface.

Absalon's main political goal was to free Denmark from entanglements with the Holy Roman Empire.

Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both Emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395 ; though definite proof of Stilicho's involvement in the assassination is lacking, the intense competition and political jealousies engendered by the two figures compose the main thread of the first part of Arcadius ' reign.

Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who gave it its name, who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria.

The two main sections also mirror the first two antagonist characters, Nehor ( religious agenda ) and Amlici ( political agenda ).

The accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union is one of the main political objectives of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 1912, differences between the two main groups of the Narodna Odbrana — political leaders of the Radical Party and military officers — arose.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

The political camp became divided by supporters of O ' Higgins, Carrera, liberal Pipiolos and conservative Pelucones, being the two last the main movements that prevailed and absorbed the rest.

One of his main reasons for staying on as leader was to frustrate the leadership ambitions of Herbert Morrison, whom Attlee disliked for political and personal reasons.

The main lines along which military events progress, and to which they are restricted, are political lines that continue throughout the war into the subsequent peace.

In the 19th century, when the political climate had liberalised enough to permit it, the people of Barcelona had the citadel torn down, and replaced it with the city's main central park, the Parc de la Ciutadella.

The main far right political party is the Front National.

Burns identifies four successive main themes of the First Ladyship: as public woman ( 1900 – 1929 ); as political celebrity ( 1932 – 1961 ); as political activist ( 1964 – 1977 ); and as political interloper ( 1980 – 2001 ).

However, the Hamas legislative victory led to a split between the two main Palestinian political parties, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank.

Francis was a devoted family man, and a main point in the political testament he left for his son and heir Ferdinand was, " Preserve unity in the family and regard it as one of the highest goods.

In theory, the new Senate consisted of a broad national coalition, but in practice, with the main political groups unwilling to compromise and the most experienced politicians remaining outside it, the cabinet proved unable to solve any major local Finnish problems.

No new states would participate in American presidential elections until 1836, after the admission to the Union of Arkansas in 1836 and Michigan in 1837 ( after the main voting, but before the counting of the electoral vote in Congress ).

The other main areas of criticism surrounding President Karzai involve nepotism, corruption, electoral fraud, and the involvement of his late half brother Ahmed Wali Karzai in the drug trade.

In fact, the Censors were not judges as such, but more like moral consultants, being their main task the repression of electoral fraud and the protection of the State ’ s public institutions.

Gladstone preferred to call them ' dissentient Liberals ' as if he believed they would eventually come back like the ' Adullamites ', Liberals who had opposed the extension of the franchise in 1866 but had mostly come back to the main party after the Conservatives had passed their own electoral reform bill in 1867.

The party receives its main electoral support from the Swedish speaking minority, which makes up about 5. 5 % of Finland's population.

In the 1980s, electoral success of far right parties consolidated, while they used anti-immigration views as a main issue.

PSDB, for its defense of economic liberalism, is the party's main electoral rival, as well as the Democrats, heir of the National Renewal Alliance Party ( Aliança Renovadora Nacional-ARENA ), ruling party during the military dictatorship.

Internal feuds, the support for electoral rights for immigrants and an unsuccessful economic policy were seen as the main reasons for its election defeat.

His electoral platform centered on confronting Colombia's main guerrilla movement, the FARC.

It celebrated its main success in 1883, when the Liberals managed to have the 1866 Constitution of Romania amended – enlarging the number of electors and establishing a third electoral college, one that gave some representation to peasants and the urban employees.

Although the PSOE was rather weak during the late 19th century, its active participation in strikes from 1899 to 1902 and especially its electoral coalition with the main Republican parties led in 1910 to the election of Pablo Iglesias as the first Socialist representative in the Spanish Cortes.

Notwithstanding, the Nationalist Party survived and in its first major electoral test, the legislative elections of 1947, it managed to stay ahead of various splinters that had formed from people who did not want to be associated with the main party.

The Party achieved many electoral successes and became the main Christian component of successive governments.

After his predecessor Levon Ter-Petrossian was ousted as President, Kocharyan was elected Armenia's second President on March 30, 1998, defeating his main rival, Karen Demirchyan, in an early presidential election marred by irregularities and violations by both sides as reported by international electoral observers.

Immediately he was accused by the Church and by conservatives of being a communist, but in the electoral match of December 20, 1962, Bosch obtained a sweeping triumph over his main oppositor Viriato Fiallo of the National Civic Union, in what is acknowledged to be the first free election in the country's history.

The main landmark in Bexley is the Anglican St. Mary's Church which gives its name to the London Borough of Bexley electoral ward containing the village.

The two main types of electoral fraud are ( 1 ) preventing eligible voters from casting their vote freely ( or from voting at all ), and ( 2 ) altering the results.

A schedule followed the main body of the act that defined the initial electoral divisions for the province.

The original 25 electoral divisions were defined in a schedule following the main body of the act.

By the 2008 general election however, the main opposition parties has realigned themselves to strategically avoid three-corner contests in the election, eventually leading to a major electoral setback for Barisan Nasional.

In the 2011 local elections the party lost all of its municipal councillors in Gjirokastër and Delvinë, the capitals of two of its main electoral areas as well as one its two municipal seats in Sarandë.

In the October 1995 presidential election, Ouattara was barred from participating through a revision to the electoral code that was widely believed to have been done specifically to prevent his candidacy, and the two main opposition parties, the Rally of the Republicans ( RDR ) and the Ivorian Popular Front ( FPI ), decided to boycott the election.

After the 1976 election PSP leaders claimed that many votes for the party were not counted by the main parties, which had representatives in every electoral college while the PSP did not, being a smaller organization.

He registered his main electoral success during the 1937 suffrage, but was blocked out of power by King Carol II, who came to favor rival fascist alternatives around the National Christian Party and the National Renaissance Front.