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https://doi.org/doi.org/10.20901/pm.63.1.04
DECISION-MAKING POWERS REGARDING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ARMED FORCES – BETWEEN POLITICAL BIAS AND SYSTEMIC DEFICITS
Stjepan Domjančić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5964-5004
; Hrvatsko vojno učilište “Dr. Franjo Tuđman”
Sažetak
Political disputes between the Croatian Government and the President of the Republic over the past five years have been a very significant feature of political life in Croatia. These disputes cover a very wide area of political space and very different topics, but given that the powers of the Government and the President are dominantly intertwined in the areas of security, defense and foreign policy, political disputes are particularly pronounced in these areas. Although these multi-year conflicts over various topics in these areas of action and decision-making have become part of Croatian political folklore, so certain statements of the actors involved have already acquired a cult status in the public and are used in everyday communication as replicas from cult films(“flaming badger”, “fifty-year-old snitch”), the background of the conflict is not simple or banal. It is not mainly the result of the personalities of the actors involved or the chosen political style, but points to systemic deficits. This paper analyzes the constitutional and legal solutions regarding the authority to decide on the actions of the Armed Forces and the political practice that has been marked by frequent disputes in the last five years. The analysis shows that the causes of the conflict lie in inconsistent legal solutions and systematic political practice that applies constitutional norms in a reductionist and tendentious manner, and reduces cohabitation to a political battlefield.
Ključne riječi
Forces; President; Government; Powers; Cohabitation
Hrčak ID:
347123
URI
Datum izdavanja:
12.5.2026.
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