2000 Croatian parliamentary election

none Croatia 1995 2003 All 151 seats in the Chamber of Representatives 76 70.85% ( 2.06pp) 3 January 2000 SDP–HSLS–PGS–SBHS Ivica Račan 23 71 39.25 Croatian Democratic Union Zlatko Mateša 75 46 27.04 HSS–IDS–HNS–LS–ASH Zlatko Tomčić 17 24 14.92 HSP–HKDU Anto Đapić 5 5 5.30 Minority lists Serb People's Party (Croatia) Milan Đukić 47.72 2 1 Democratic Union of Hungarians of Croatia Tibor Santo 42.88 New 1 Croatian Peasant Party Zdenka Čuhnil 40.62 New 1 SRURH Borislav Graljuk 34.10 New 1 Independents Furio Radin 78.91 1 1 2000 Croatian parliamentary election map.svg Result by constituency Prime Minister Zlatko Mateša Croatian Democratic Union Ivica Račan Social Democratic Party of Croatia Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 3 January 2000 to elect members of the Chamber of Representatives. The ruling Croatian Democratic Union entered the elections weakened by a series of corruption scandals that came to light in the previous parliamentary term and fractures between its hardline nationalists and more moderate members. However, the most important factor was the deteriorating health of the party leader and Croatian president Franjo Tuđman, which left no successor within the party.Croatia's Parliamentary Elections https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-Y4_SE2-PURL-LPS5245/pdf/GOVPUB-Y4_SE2-PURL-LPS5245.pdf 1–5 govinfo.gov Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe 2000 On the other side, two major Croatian opposition parties – the Social Democratic Party of Croatia and Croatian Social Liberal Party – had their coalition formally agreed in 1998 and spent more than a year preparing for the elections. At first, they were to run together with the Croatian Peasant Party, Croatian People's Party, Istrian Democratic Assembly and Liberal Party, but as Tuđman's condition worsened, leaders of the SDP and HSLS concluded that they could win elections even without the four other parties, which later formed a separate bloc. On 25 May, the governing HDZ and the six mainstream opposition parties signed an agreement to develop a consensus-based legislative framework for the upcoming parliamentary elections. This agreement also included a commitment to restructure Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) as a public broadcaster.Waters Trevor Croatia: Three Elections and a Funeral https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/38633/2000_Jun.pdf ethz.ch Conflict Studies Research Centre As before all previous elections since the breakup of Yugoslavia, the electoral laws were altered in an attempt to improve the chances for the ruling party; this included a new voting system and redistricting. The first-past-the-post constituencies introduced in the previous election were scrapped and proportional representation was implemented (with the exception of ethnic minority seats). The country was divided into ten electoral districts, all drawn in order to maximise the support for HDZ. Each district had to elect 14 members with an electoral threshold of 5%. Due to Tuđman's illness and death in December 1999, the elections were repeatedly postponed for constitutional reasons. There was speculation about elections being held during the Christmas holidays in order to have as many Croatian expatriates (traditionally HDZ supporters) in the country, but the date of 3 January was chosen as the most suitable. As election day, the outcome became more certain. The campaign was brief and relatively uneventful with the HDZ being visibly weakened and demoralised by the death of its long-term leader. On election day, voter turnout – the highest since 1990 – indicated the desire to see a change of government. Following the elections, Social Democratic Party leader Ivica Račan was appointed prime minister on 27 January 2000, by a decree of Acting President and Speaker of the outgoing assembly of Parliament, Vlatko Pavletić. The appointment was confirmed by a parliamentary vote on 2 February in which 122 of 151 MPs voted in favor and one against the cabinet, while one MP abstained.http://www.hsp1861.hr/vijesti/200210nlir.htm Novi List: 10 hsp1861.hr Račan led a coalition of SDP and HSLS, which together with a bloc of four other parties held a supermajority in parliament, allowing them to amend the Constitution and transform Croatia from a semi-presidential system into an incomplete parliamentary system in November 2000, and abolish the upper chamber, the Chamber of Counties, in March 2001. The constitutional changes of 2000 greatly limited the power of the president, but retained the direct election of the office. Results thumb|Results of the election based on the majority of votes in each municipality of Croatia Social Democratic Party of Croatia SDP-HSLS coalition Croatian Democratic Union HDZ Croatian Peasant Party HSS-HNS coalition Istrian Democratic Assembly IDS-HSS-HNS coalition #4fc7ff SDSS Croatian Party of Rights HSP-HKDU coalition #828282 HČSP SDP–HSLS–SBHS–PGS 1138318 71 Croatian Democratic Union 784192 46 HSS–IDS–LS–HNS–ASH 432527 24 HSP–HKDU 153708 5 Croatian Party of Pensioners 52717 0 HP–NH–HČSP 52329 0 Croatian Peasant Peoples' Party 39867 0 Croatian Popular Party 39743 0 Croatian Party of Rights 1861 30018 0 Independent Democratic Serb Party 22828 0 Socialist Labour Party of Croatia 17396 0 HKDS–KDM–INS–IPS 15583 0 Croatian Green Party 12972 0 Croatian Civic Peasant Party 11762 0 HDS–RPS 11145 0 HDSS–HSRS–NSP 8522 0 DPS–ZDS 7360 0 Croatian Independent Democrats 6994 0 Dalmatian Action 6388 0 National Democratic Party 6188 0 Croatian Party of Natural Law 4593 0 Movement for Human Rights–Party of Environmentally Conscious Citizens 3758 0 Croatian Republican Union 3309 0 Croatian Plans Party 2734 0 Serb People's Party 2647 0 Party of Croatian Revival 2370 0 Christian Social Union 1913 0 Croatian Dalmatian Home 1788 0 Istrian Party 1705 0 Homeland Civic Party 1687 0 Croatian Republicans 1511 0 Croatian Defence Order 1003 0 Social Democratic Union of Croatia 798 0 Party of Danube Serbs 721 0 Coastal Democratic Centre 607 0 Party of Democratic Action of Croatia 100 0 Independents 18134 0 National minorities 5 47926 4046508 Global Elections Database, Psephos Minority seats National minorities elected five representatives through a separate election system: Milan Đukić (47.7% of votes) for the Serb national minority, Tibor Santo (42.8%) for the Hungarian minority, Furio Radin (78.9%) for the Italian minority, Zdenka Čuhnil (40.6%) for the Czech and Slovak minorities and Borislav Graljuk (34.1%) for the Austrian, German, Jewish, Rusyn and Ukrainian minorities. Composition Government Opposition                                                                                                                                                                  Government: SDP HSLS PGS SBHS HSS IDS HNS Liberal Minorities Opposition: HDZ HSP HKDU References Croatia Croatia Parliament Category:Parliamentary elections in Croatia