The Case of the Croatian Capital Zagreb The new system of directly elected mayors implemented in Croatia in 2009 faced its most severe diiculties in municipalities with divided power, where the mayor and council majority represent diferent political options. Due to the uneasy relationship between the Mayor and the City Assembly in Zagreb, the new Croatian government decided to propose changes in the laws regulating elections and the relationship between the representative and executive bodies in the local government system one year ahead of the 2013 local elections. Mayors were explicitly given the right to elect and revoke the representatives of units of local and regional self-government in local institutions and companies. The second most signiicant aspect of the 'mini-reform' of the Croatian local government system is the introduction of the possibility of the simultaneous dissolution of the representative body and dismissal of the executive body, with new early elections for both bodies, in cases of the non adoption of the municipal budget.
Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, countries around the globe responded with a wide range of special measures. Whereas some of them resorted to their constitutional emergency rules, others opted to act through legislation. The author argues that the effects of the legislative approach to the epidemic in Croatia actually resemble the state of an emergency in the proper sense of the word, although the authorities try to present the whole case as a situation of "legal normalcy". More precisely, the author claims that in practice the adopted model produces concentration of power in the executive branch far beyond what one could expect in ordinary times. To prove that, the author analyses the Croatian legal anti-epidemic framework through several elements (declaration of emergency, law-making powers, overview of executive emergency actions, parliamentary sittings). Finally, the author argues that the constitutional state of natural disaster in Croatia should have been proclaimed.
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Neposredno izabrani gradonačelnik i problem kohabitacije Slučaj hrvatskog glavnog grada Zagreba Novi sustav neposredno izabranih gradonačelnika, implementiran u Hrvatskoj 2009. godine, suočio se s najozbiljnijim teškoćama u jedinicama lokalne samouprave s podijeljenom vlašću, gdje gradonačelnik i većina u vijeću predstavljaju različite političke opcije. Zbog konliktnog odnosa između gradonačelnika i Skupštine Grada Zagreba nova hrvatska Vlada predložila je promjene u zakonima koji reguliraju izbor i odnos predstavničkog i izvršnog tijela u sustavu lokalne samouprave godinu dana prije lokalnih izbora 2013. godine. Gradonačelnicima je dana izričita ovlast imenovanja i opoziva predstavnika jedinice lokalne samouprave u lokalnim ustanovama i trgovačkim društvima. Drugi najvažniji aspekt "mini reforme" hrvatskog sustava lokalne samouprave odnosi se na uvođenje mogućnosti istodobnog raspuštanja predstavničkog tijela i razrješenja izvršnog tijela, s novim prijevremenim izborima za oba tijela u slučaju neusvajanja proračuna jedinice lokalne samouprave.
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