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A democratic state's constitution ought to guarantee basic personal, political, economic, social, cultural, & ecological rights & freedoms of individuals & citizens & shape an efficient system of legal & juridical protection of all the guaranteed human rights. The Republic of Croatia, since its Constitution of 22 December 1990, has undoubtedly been a democratic constitutional state. The Croatian Constitution is an example of the adoption of the constitutional option in the establishment of the constitutional regime. After seven years of its application, it is clear that there is something controversial in its content regarding the fundamental rights & freedoms of individuals & citizens as well as in their legal protection at the constitutional/legal level. Also contentious are the constitutional provisions regarding the structure of the government & local self-rule & administration. There have been many misunderstandings & dangerous constitutional/legal & constitutional/political illusions regarding this matter, particularly concerning the Croatian semi-presidential system & parliamentarism. This analysis shows that semi-presidential system, as a specific variant of parliamentary government, is extremely adaptable to all possible changes in both the party & the broader political setting. Adapted from the source document.

A democratic state's constitution ought to guarantee basic personal, political, economic, social, cultural and ecological rights and freedoms of individuals and citizens and shape an efficient system of legal and juridical protection of all the guaranteed human rights. The Republic of Croatia, since its Constitution of 22 December 1990, has undoubtedly been a democratic constitutional state. The Croatian Constitution is an example of the adoption of the constitutional option in the establishment of the constitutional regime. After seven years of its application, it is clear that there is something controversial in its content regarding the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals and citizens as well as in their legal protection at the constitutional/legal level. Also contentious are the constitutional provisions regarding the structure of the government and local self-rule and administration. There have been many misunderstandings and dangerous constitutional/legal and constitutionallpolitical illusions regarding this matter, particularly concerning the Croatian semi-presidential system and parliamentarism. This analysis shows that semipresidential system, as a specific variant of parliamentary government, is extremely adaptable to all possible changes in both the party and the broader political setting. (SOI : PM: S. 120)

The author considers basic controversies surrounding the constitutional model & reality of Croatian parliamentarism. He contends that all these issues can be summarized in one debatable question: Is it a fair assessment that the Croatian political system & Croatian parliamentarism are marred by the concentration of power wielded by the upper echelon of the government, especially the President of the Republic, while the parliament is powerless & marginalized. The author challenges this assumption by systematically dividing basic characteristics of parliamentary governments & semipresidential systems into specific examples of both foreign policy & majority & consensus decision making; while emphasizing the influence of the party system on constitutional government. He believes that a change from a semipresidential system to a purely parliamentary system would not significantly affect the relationship between the law-making & executive arms of government. Adapted from the source document.