Original scientific paper
CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE LEADER OF THE CROATIAN PEASANT PARTY LJUDEVIT TOMAŠIĆ
Ivica Golec
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
After the assassination of king Alexander (1934) the Kingdom of Yugoslavia witnessed a revival of the party and political life and confrontation between the regime and opposing forces. The new president of the government Milan Stojadinović recognized again the existence of Croatian question. At all political meetings the followers of Vladko Maček and Croatian Peasant Party all over Croatia asked the prince Pavle and the government to abolish the dictatorship. The same happened also at the meeting of Croatian Peasant Party in Sisak (1936), when one of the Party leaders, Ljudevit Tomašić, criticized political situation in the country. Facing 12000 citizens of Sisak and peasants from the Sisak region, he asked for full sovereignty of Croatian people, Croatian Parliament in Zagreb, and said that Croats had never been nor would ever be Yugoslavs »because Yugoslavism is no nation at all«. Because of this speech a criminal proceedings against Tomašić were instituted. It was o political process which included a series of state-run institutions. After the agreement between the new president of the government Dragiša Cvetković and Vladko Maček and the establishment of Banovina Croatia, the procedure against Tomašić was stopped.
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213997
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Publication date:
4.12.1997.
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