Manipulacje systemem wyborczym w Republice Chorwacji w latach 90. XX wieku i ich wpływ na kształt tamtejszej sceny politycznej

THE AIM OF the following article is to present the changes in the Croatian electoral system between 1990 and 1999, which is the time of the government of president Franjo Tuđman and the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) as well as to show how these changes in the electoral law influenced on the shape of the political scene. In the 1990s there were three changes of the electoral formula, which we could recognize as a phenomenon on a world scale. This article tries to prove that the strengthening of the party ruling position was the aim of all these changes. In the article have been discussed the irregularity in creating electoral wards, change of voting rules of the members of national minorities as well as controversies connected with the voting of the members of diaspora. The article also tries to approach the institution of the representative of the electoral register and rules which had regulated matters of the candidate exchange and suspension of mandate as well as different solutions which violated democratic procedures.