Original scientific paper
1927 - 1929 Crisis of Local Government in Koprivnica
Vladimir Šadek
orcid.org/0000-0002-8144-3967
; Koprivnica-Križevci County, Koprivnica, Croatia
Abstract
Following the formation of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (abbrev. SHS), the political life in Koprivnica’s Podravina region is dominated by the Peasants Party HSS and its most prominent politician in the 1920s Ivan Kraljić, the mayor of Koprivnica.. Since Kraljić was popular among the citizens and often in confrontation with the governing regime, authorities tried to discredit him and thus decrease his influence. This was also supported by Stjepan Radić’s political stands in mid 1920s, when inter-party turmoil caused weakening of the HSS party in Koprivnica region. Once two other parties had been formed, namely the HFSS and Croatian bloc (Hrvatski blok), a conflict erupted among the Croatian parties which caused HSAS dropping down in popularity in the town of Koprivnica. When the mayor Kraljić was eventually suspended and relieved from his duty, a local government went into a crisis, deepened further by political confrontations in pre-election campaigns. Despite bad economic situation, the political crisis lingered unresolved, due to lack of compromise and disagreement among the parties, until the repeated elections, when a mayor was elected with the help of agreement reached with SDK leadership. The political squabble was quieted down with enforcing a dictatorship, when the regime installed a young lawyer Vladimir Malančec as the mayor.
Keywords
Koprivnica; elections; Croatian Peasants Party; Croatian bloc; politics; Mayor; Ivan Kraljić
Hrčak ID:
77858
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Publication date:
1.6.2009.
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