In the early 1920s the Yugoslav government of Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic used police pressure over voters and ethnic minorities, confiscation of opposition pamphlets and other measures of election rigging to keep the opposition, and mainly the Croatian Peasant Party and its allies in minority in Yugoslav parliament.

On 2 May 1991 the Croatian parliament voted to hold a referendum on independence.

On 29 October independence was declared by a national gathering in Ljubljana, and by the Croatian parliament, declaring the establishment of the new State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.

* The Congregatio Regni tocius Sclavonie Generalis with its decisions ( statuta et constitutiones ), is the oldest surviving document written by the Croatian parliament.

In the early 1920s the Yugoslav government of Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic used police pressure over voters and ethnic minorities, confiscation of opposition pamphlets and other measures of election rigging to keep the opposition, and mainly the Croatian Peasant Party and its allies in minority in Yugoslav parliament.

The name of the office was changed 8 years later with the Yugoslav constitutional reforms of 1953, into " President of the Executive Council " ( Predsjednik Izvršnog Vijeća ), and remained the central office of Croatian politics in spite of the institution of a collective Presidency ( previously the mostly-nominal function of the head of state belonged to the speaker of the Croatian parliament, the Sabor ).

With several other members of parliament, he formed a new party called Croatian Independent Democrats ( HND ).

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

In the Croatian parliamentary election, 2003, it beat its main rival, the Serb People's Party ( SNS ), taking all three seats reserved for Serb representatives in the Croatian parliament.

Seats are allocated according to the Croatian Parliament electoral districts: 140 members of the parliament are elected in multi-seat constituencies, 8 from the minorities and 3 from the Croatian diaspora.

The parliament has the right to deploy Croatian armed forces abroad.

The Government of Croatia is responsible to the parliament ; some other institutions, such as the Croatian National Bank and the State Audit Office, also report directly to the parliament.

In 1992 he was elected as an HDZ deputy to the lower house of the Croatian parliament.

That same month SKH had rebranded themselves as the " Party of Democratic Reform " ( Stranka demokratskih promjena or SDP ) and went on to run in the 1990 election as SKH-SDP, coming in second behind the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) with 26 percent of votes and a total of 107 seats in the 351-seat parliament.

In the following 1995 election, SDP won 8. 93 percent of the popular vote and a total of 10 seats in the parliament, coming in fourth behind the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ), Croatian Peasant Party ( HSS ) and the Croatian Social Liberal Party ( HSLS ).

The following is a summary of SDP's results in legislative elections for the Croatian parliament.

In 2000, and again in 2001, the Croatian Parliament amended the Constitution changing bicameral parliament back into historic unicameral and reducing the Presidential powers.

The Croatian parliament is defined as a representative body of the people and is vested with the legislative power.

The country has only of coastline, around the town of Neum in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, although surrounded by Croatian peninsulas it is possible to get to the middle of the Adriatic from Neum.

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

The majority of the Serbs who fled from the former Krajina have not returned due to fears of ethnic violence, discrimination and property repossession problems, and the Croatian government has yet to achieve the conditions for full reintegration.

The Croatian Bureau of Statistics has performed this task since the 1990s.

This means that the country has an IASA Category 1 rating and that Croatian air carriers are authorized to establish direct flights from Croatia to the US.

Recently, after so many years of waiting, the construction of this route has been realized, in addition to the extension of the A3 so it connects Zagreb to Croatian borders with both Serbia ( near Lipovac ) and Slovenia ( near Bregana ).

Croatian foreign policy has focused on greater Euro-Atlantic integration, mainly entering the European Union and NATO.

Thanks to the consistent position of Austria during the meeting of EU foreign ministers, a long period of instability and the questioning of the determination of the Croatian government to surrender war criminals has ended successfully.

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

The word has also spread to Turkish as pide, and Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian as pita, Albanian as pite and Modern Hebrew pittāh.

Pittsburgh has one of the largest Italian communities in the nation, and also has the nation's fifth largest Ukrainian community and the largest Croatian community in the USA.

Risus itself has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Danish, Dutch, Croatian, Czech, Polish, and Norwegian.

In the last decade, the Sardinian language has been legally recognized ( with Albanian, Catalan, German, Greek, Slovene, Croatian, French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Ladin, and Occitan ) by the Law 482-1999, yet its actual acknowledgement in the present-day life is hard.

The Croatian constitution was passed in December, 1990 categorizing Serbs as a minority group along with other ethnic groups.

: 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.

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.

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.