Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats
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Template:Politics of Croatia The Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats (Croatian Hrvatska narodna stranka - Liberalni Demokrati; HNS) a liberal party in Croatia.
The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. The HNS is led by Vesna Pusić.
The Croatian People's Party participated in the 2000-2003 government of Ivica Račan through the minister of public works, construction and rebuilding, Radimir Čačić, previously a president of the party. At the time they had two deputies in the Croatian Parliament. At the last legislative elections, 23 november 2003, the allaince of the HNS with the Alliance of Primorje - Gorski Kotar and the Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party won 8.0 % of the popular vote and 11 out of 151 seats, 10 seats of them occupied by the HNS.
On February 6, 2005, most of the 1,250 representatives of HNS on its seventh convention voted to merge with the Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) as the Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats. Libra had won 3 seats at the last elections, so currently HNS has 13 representatives in the Parliament and are the third largest political party in Croatia.
See also
- Liberalism
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Liberalism worldwide
- List of liberal parties
- Liberal democracy
- Liberalism in Croatia
External link
- Official web site (http://www.hns.hr/)Template:Liberalparty-stub