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Croatia*

H.E. Đuro Sessa, President,
State Electoral Commission of the Republic of Croatia

part i (including Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Alba-
nian), unspecified 0.2% (2011 est.)
CoUNtrY ProfiLE
12. Literacy Levels
male literacy rate is 99.63% , females is 98.67%
1. Country Name
CROATIA
part ii
2. Official Name
Republic of Croatia LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

3. Government
Parliamentary Republic LEGISLATURE
4. Head of the Government 1. Structure of National Legislature
Prime Minister – Andrej Plenković Unicameral

5. Head of the State 2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
President – ZoranMilanović Assembly

6. Capital 3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
Zagreb nominated
143 members of the Hrvatski Sabor (Assembly)
7. Currency are elected based on proportional representation
Croatian kuna and preferential voting. Voters may vote only for
one slate of candidates and they may mark one
8. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) candidate on the selected slate to have precedence
Croat 90.4%, Serb 4.4%, other 4.4% (including Bos- over other candidates (preferred vote).8 members
niak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Romani), un- of the HrvatskiSabor, representing national minori-
specified 0.8% (2011 est.)
ties, are elected asindividual candidates. The elect-
9. Date of Independence and from which Country ed representative is the candidate who has won
25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia); notable earlier the greatest number of votes cast
dates: ca. 925 (Kingdom of Croatia established); 4. Popular House
1 December 1918 (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Hrvatski Sabor / Croatian Parliament
Slovenes (Yugoslavia) established)
10. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution 5. Type of Electoral System
latest adopted 22 December 1990 Proportional Representation

11. Language (s)
Croatian (official) 95.6%, Serbian 1.2%, other 3%

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