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Parliamentary elections at the turn of the nineteenth century in Croatia

In this article the author describes the main characteristics of parliamentary life in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia during the Austro-Hungarian period. The Croatian Sabor began to function as a representative body in June 1848. According to the decrees of the Croatian-Hungarian Agreement (1868), the Croatian parliament was a legislative body that had jurisdiction over those affairs in which Croatia was granted autonomy: internal administration, the judiciary, education and culture. After the emergence of a strong national movement, ana large demonstrations against the regime, Khuen Hedervaty was appointed to the office of Ban. He was appointed to break the resistence of the nationalist parties who opposed and obstructed the proper functionin of dualism, the constitutional arrangement between Budapest and Vienna which inhibited the development of a separate Croatian state and nation.

Parliamentary life; Diet; constitution; elections

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