The Croatian constitution and legislation provides for regular presidential and parliamentary elections, and the election of county prefects and assemblies, and city and municipal mayors and councils.

Croatian constitution guarantees freedom of speech, but Croatian penal code prohibits and punishes anyone " who based on differences of race, religion, language, political or any other belief, wealth, birth, education, social status or other properties, gender, skin color, nationality or ethnicity violates basic human rights and freedoms recognized from international community ".

According to the Croatian constitution, the President of Croatia is the Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia.

In 1974, a new federal constitution was ratified that gave more autonomy to the individual republics, thereby basically fulfilling some of the goals of the Croatian Spring 1971 movement.

Clear ethnic conflict between the Yugoslav peoples only became prominent in the 20th century, beginning with tensions over the constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in the early 1920s and escalating into violence between Serbs and Croats in the late 1920s after the assassination of Croatian nationalist Stjepan Radić.

The Croatian constitution was passed in December 1990 putting Serbs in a minority category along with other ethnic groups such as Italians, Hungarians, and others.

The new constitution was ratified on 19 October 2007, declaring Montenegrin as the official language of Montenegro, as well as recognising Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian.

The party subsequently held a congress in Zagreb on December 8 where it was renamed to the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, and a republican platform for the new constitution was adopted.

Under the new constitution adopted in 1990, the Croatian Parliament was bicameral.

The first native Croatian ruler recognised by the Pope was duke Branimir, whom Pope John VIII referred to as Dux Croatorum (" Duke of Croats ") in 879.

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was supported by the Croatians in the War of Austrian Succession of 1741 – 1748 and subsequently made significant contributions to Croatian matters.

In 1867 the Dual Monarchy was created ; Croatian autonomy was restored in 1868 with the Croatian – Hungarian Settlement which was comparatively favourable for the Croatians, but still problematic because of issues such as the unresolved status of Rijeka.

After Srijem left Croatia and Slavonia and joined Serbia together with Vojvodina, which was shortly followed by a referendum to join Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia, the People's Council ( Narodno vijeće ) of the state, guided by what was by that time a half a century long tradition of pan-Slavism and without sanction of the Croatian sabor, joined the Kingdom of Serbia into the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

Stjepan Radić During a Parliament session in 1928, the Croatian Peasant Party's leader Stjepan Radić was mortally wounded by Puniša Račić, a deputy of the Serbian Radical People's Party, which caused further upsets among the Croatian elite.

Vladko Maček, who had succeeded Radić as leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, the largest political party in Croatia, was imprisoned, and members of a newly emerging insurgent movement, the Ustaše, went into exile.

In June 1989 the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) was founded by Croatian nationalist dissidents led by Franjo Tuđman a former fighter in Tito's Partisan movement and JNA General.

At this time Yugoslavia was still a one-party state and open manifestations of Croatian nationalism were dangerous so new party was founded in an almost conspiratorial manner.

Tuđman died in 1999 and in the early 2000 parliamentary elections, the nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) government was replaced by a center-left coalition under the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, with Ivica Račan as prime minister.

The Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 was held on 4 December 2011, and the Kukuriku coalition won.

By the time EU accession negotiations were completed on 30 June 2010, Croatian legislation was fully harmonised with the Community acquis.

Croatian GDP in 2010 was 335. 5 billion Croatian Kuna and contracted by 1. 4 % year-on-year.

At the contrary, Zagreb-Split trait construction enjoyed a constant support from Croatian public and its on-schedule completion was marked with enormous joy and pride all through the country.

The Croatian parliament has passed a law that no bus should be older than 12 years-however, this decision is currently frozen because of the high cost for bus operators.

: The Croatian people have passed through the Roman-Western retort, while the Serbian people passed through the Byzantine-Turkish.

Many Bosnian Army officers and intellectuals were suspicious regarding foreign volunteers arrival in central part of the country, because they came from Split and Zagreb in Croatia, and were passed through the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia without problems unlike Bosnian Army soldiers who were regularly arrested by Croat forces.

In general, the universities demand the three compulsory exams ( Croatian, Math, Foreign language ) to be passed ( although can have 0 % percent extrapolated as points for enrollment ) along with one optional subject that is generally given higher attention ( up to 70 %).

On 21 December 1990, the post-socialist government of Croatia, passed a law prescribing the design created by the graphic designer Miroslav Šutej, under the aegis of a commission chaired by Nikša Stančić, then head of the Department of Croatian History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

After Constitutional amendments in September 2000, he was deprived of most of his roles in domestic policy-making, which instead passed wholly to the Croatian Government and its Premier.

The Government shall assume its duty if the vote of confidence is passed by a majority vote of all members of the Croatian Parliament.

Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was inhabited by Muslim Bosniaks ( 44 percent ), Orthodox Serbs ( 31 percent ) and Catholic Croats ( 17 percent ), passed a referendum for independence on 29 February 1992.

The name Prelog is probably derived from the Croatian word vlak, meaning the train, pulling, or to pull, since the area attracted many visitors who intentionally came and eventually passed by in the process of transit and trade.

Historic Kistalovac, Pavlovina, Sirač, Bagenovać, Dobra Kuća, Stupčanica are examples of numerous local castles belonging to the Croatian nobility of the times passed by.

The Croatian Parliament could not decide conclusively whether this rendered the referendum proposal moot or not, and instead passed the judgement on to the Constitutional Court of Croatia.

Under French rule all the people were equal, and education laws written, for the first time in many centuries, in the Croatian language were passed.

Seeing flaw of hiding MBG, on January 1, 2009 Croatia passed a new law that introduced a different unique identifier called the Personal Identification Number ( Croatian: Osobni identifikacijski broj, acronym OIB ).

HNB was established by the Constitution of Croatia which was passed by the Croatian Parliament on 21 December 1990.

Instead, the Croatian-Hungarian Settlement of 1868 was passed which was less favorably inclined towards the Croatian cause — and which Strossmayer protested with respect to decreased autonomy in the areas of budget and finances.

In 2009 the governing Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) party passed a very controversial law restricting access to in vitro fertilisation ( IVF ) solely to married couples and heterosexual couples who could prove that they had been cohabitating for at least three years.

The club continues to be an important institution for the Croatian community, helping keep it alive, as Croatian culture and tradition is passed onto the next generation.

In December 2004, the EU leaders announced that accession negotiations with Croatia would start on March 17, 2005 provided that Croatian government cooperates fully with the ICTY.

* December 28 – Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist leader during World War II ( b. 1889 )

* December 2 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer ( d. 1759 )

* December 8 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet ( b. 1589 )

Sigismund of Luxemburg KG ( Hungarian: Zsigmond, Croatian: Žigmund, Czech: Zikmund ) ( 14 February 1368 – 9 December 1437 ) was King of Hungary, of Croatia from 1387, of Bohemia from 1419, and Holy Roman Emperor for four years from 1433 until 1437, the last Emperor of the House of Luxemburg.

On 29 October 1918, the Croatian Sabor declared independence and decided to join the newly formed State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which in turn entered into union with the Kingdom of Serbia on 4 December 1918 to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

In the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Hungary, where St. Nicholas ( sveti Mikuláš / szent Mikulás ) gives his sweet gifts on December 6, the Christmas gift-giver is the Child Jesus ( Ježíšek in Czech, Jézuska in Hungarian, Ježiško in Slovak and Isusek in Croatian ).

* December 28-Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist and grammarian ( born 1575 )

* December 27-Petar Kanavelić, Croatian poet and songwriter ( died 1719 )

* December 14-Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright ( born c. 1485 )

* December 8 – Josif Runjanin, composer of the Croatian national anthem ( d. 1878 )

After the calls to the student strike, in December 1971 Tito persuaded to resign some unreliable, in his view, public figures like Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Miko Tripalo and Dragutin Haramija and make a sweep in Croatian communist party and local administration.

After the People's Committee ( Narodno vijeće ) declared that State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs is joining the Kingdom of Serbia November 27, 1918 and when it was realised on December 1, 1918, Croatian national symbols were just tolerated.

Stjepan " Stipe " Mesić (; born 24 December 1934 ) is a Croatian politician who served as the second President of Croatia, 2000 to 2010.

(" Moj posao je završen-Jugoslavije više nema ") December 5, 1991 in the Croatian parliament having left the presidency of the Yugoslav presidency.

In December 1971, on the Karađorđevo conference of the SKJ, Tito publicly distanced himself from Croatian Spring, leading to the end of the movement.

He officially ceased to be Prime Minister on 23 December 2003 when the Croatian Parliament approved his successor, Ivo Sanader of the HDZ, to take up that post.

In December 2010, the Croatian authorities charged him in two high-profile corruption indictments, but he made himself unavailable and had to be arrested in Austria.

" Cock-a-doodle-doo Coalition ") with three other centre-left parties ( Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats ( HNS ), Istrian Democratic Assembly ( IDS ) and the Croatian Party of Pensioners ( HSU )), with the aim of running in the December 2011 parliamentary election.

* the fact that the Croatian Parliament had never sanctioned the decision of the National Council of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs to unite with Serbia and Montenegro in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( 1 December 1918 ), subsequently ( 3 October 1929 ) proclaimed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ;

The Croatian People's Peasant Party ( Hrvatska pučka seljačka stranka ) was formed on December 22, 1904 by Antun Radić along with his brother Stjepan Radić.