USTAVNO UREĐENJE U REPUBLICI HRVATSKOJ (1990-2002)
CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA (1990-2002)

Author(s): Arsen Bačić
Subject(s): Politics, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Governance, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: constitution; semi-presidential system; Republic of Croatia; constitutionalism
Summary/Abstract: The state legal emancipation and independence of Croatia de facto took place within the framework of extraordinary and wartime conditions (1990-1995). In such an atmosphere of socio-political development of the Republic of Croatia after the first multi-party democratic elections, evident political (un)opportunities forced the Croatian constitution-making body to constitutionalize the type of central authority in the form of a constitutionally superior head of state with the 1990 Constitution. The Croatian public was convinced that only under the semi-presidential system of government - all existing and possible latent differences and conflicts could be kept under control; only with such a command could the direction of defense and full affirmation of the independent state and its transition be maintained. In the paper, the author highlights the essential elements of the constitutional and legal structure of the Republic of Croatia in the period from 1990 to 2000, when democratic elections created the possibility of changing the semi-presidential system, with an indication of constitutional and legal changes in 2000-2001, which in the future could have an effect on the realization of a more desirable and harmonious type of parliamentarism.

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