THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Author(s): Arsen Bačić
Subject(s): History, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: Constitution; semi-presidential system; the Republic of Croatia; constitutionalism
Summary/Abstract: The social-legal emancipation and independence gaining of Croatia was de facto carried out in irregular circumstances and during war (1990-1995). In such atmosphere of the social-political development of the Republic of Croatia and after the first pluralistic democratic elections, it is evident that (un)favourable political circumstances forced the Croatian constitution-maker to sanction through the 1990 Constitution a type of central authority in the figure of the constitutionally superior head of the state. The Croatian public was convinced that only a semi-presidential system of state governance could keep all the existing and potential differences and conflicts under control; it was the only organization which had sufficient command to sustain a course of defence and the general affirmation of the independent state and its transition. In this paper, the author points out the key elements of the constitutional legal structure of the Republic of Croatia from 1990 to the year 2000 when the democratic elections along with constitutional-legal changes in 2000-2001, enabled the modification of the semi-presidential system which can influence the realization of a more favourable and better-proportioned type of parliamentary system in the future.

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