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Bronisaw Komorowski is elected President His victory brings an end to a period of cohabitation. The liberal conservative party Civic Platform controls both the presidency and the government. The accidental death of the incumbent President Lech Kaczyski has affected both the timing of the election and the tone of the campaign. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

Governing coalition returned to power despite austerity measures. Economic rather than ethnic appeals resonated with voters. Nationalist right failed to benefit from economic recession. Ethnically based party system prevented ideological turnover of power. Proposed governments range from minimal-winning to grand coalition. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

This article deals with problems of poverty in Croatian society. The introductory part points out the economic and political circumstances in which the poverty of a considerable number of citizens becomes an important social problem. In the next part, concepts of absolute, relative and subjective poverty are defined. This is followed by an overview of the results of research into the extent of absolute and relative poverty in Croatian society conducted from 1998 to 2009. The results show that the rate of relative poverty basically remained the same throughout the above-mentioned period. Furthermore, it is shown that the risk factors causing citizens' poverty are the following: low level of education, unemployment, low retirement pensions, old age, and large number of children in the family. The author concludes that the Croatian government neither developed nor carried out any systematic and efficient plan of fighting poverty in Croatian society. Adapted from the source document.