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Zagreb Assembly
The City Assembly of the City of Zagreb (, short: GSGZ) is the lawmaking body of the Croatian capital of Zagreb. It consists of 47 members who were elected by universal suffrage and secret ballot at 2021 elections for a term of four years. The assembly meets at the Old City Hall, close to the St. Mark's Square. This representative body passes acts within the self-governing scope of the City of Zagreb and performs other duties in accordance with the state laws and its own Statute. The assembly serves as a check against the mayor in a mayor-council government model. It has 24 permanent and occasional working bodies with oversight of various functions of the city government. Assembly members The assembly comprises 51 members elected in a general, free, secret and direct ballot by the citizens of Zagreb according to the principle of proportional representation. Elections take place every four years – at the same time as for the Mayor. According to the article 49 of the ''Stat ...
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Matej Mišić
Matej is a given name that originates from the Slavic nations of Central and Eastern Europe. It is one of the most common male names in Slovakia and Slovenia, and is also common in Croatia. The name is originally derived from Matthias the Apostle. Matěj, with the ě diacritic, is a Czech language, Czech given name. In Polish the equivalent is Maciej, and in English it is Matthias (given name), Matthias. Apoštol Matěj is Matthias the Apostle, while Matthew the Apostle is Matouš in Czech. The name Matej has its root in the Hebrew word Mattityahu and means God's gift. Matej Notable people with the name include: A-I * Matej Bagarić (born 1989), Croatian footballer * Matej Bene (born 1992), Slovak ice hockey player * Matej Beňuš (born 1987), Slovak slalom canoeist * Matej Bor (1913–1993), Slovene poet, translator, playwright, journalist and partisan * Matej Centrih (born 1988), Slovenian football player * Matej Černič (born 1978), Italian volleyball player * Matej Češík ...
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Tomislav Jonjić
Tomislav Jonjić (born 19 May 1965) is a Croatian jurist, lawyer, historian, politician and former diplomat. He is a research associate at the Croatian Institute of History. Biography Early life and education Jonjić was born in Imotski in 1965, where he graduated at the local gymnasium. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb (1984–1988), and obtained a doctorate in history at the Faculty of Croatian Studies in 2015. His doctoral advisor was Stjepan Matković. Judicial career From the end of 1992 to the end of 1995, he was a contract diplomat at the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Bern, and then for less than two years, he was an advisor for international relations at the Office for International Relations of the Ministry of the Interior (1995–1997). As the lead defense attorney, he participated in two proceedings at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in Hague. Writings Jonjić has been writing since 1990. He is a regular member o ...
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Giro (banking)
A giro transfer, often shortened to giro (), is a payment transfer between Transaction account, current bank accounts and initiated by the payer, not the payee. The debit card has a similar model. Giros are primarily used in Europe; although electronic payment systems exist in the United States (e.g., the Automated Clearing House), it is not possible to perform third-party transfers with them. In the European Union, the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) allows electronic giro or debit card payments in euros to be executed to any euro bank account in the area. Name The word "giro" is borrowed from Dutch language, Dutch and/or German language, German , which are both from the Italian language, Italian meaning "circulation of money". The Italian term comes via the Latin meaning "gyre" from the Greek meaning "circle". History and concept Giro systems originated in Ptolemaic Egypt in the 4th century BCE, where state granary deposits functioned as an early banking system with ...
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Euro
The euro (currency symbol, symbol: euro sign, €; ISO 4217, currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the Member state of the European Union, member states of the European Union. This group of states is officially known as the euro area or, more commonly, the eurozone. The euro is divided into 100 1 euro cent coin, euro cents. The currency is also used officially by the institutions of the European Union, by International status and usage of the euro, four European microstates that are not EU members, the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, as well as unilaterally by Montenegro and Kosovo. Outside Europe, a number of special territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency. The euro is used by 350 million people in Europe and additionally, over 200 million people worldwide use currencies pegged to the euro. It is the second-largest reserve currency as well as the second-most traded currency in the world after the United Sta ...
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Mayor Of Zagreb
This article contains a list of people who have served as mayor of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, or president of the Zagreb Assembly. List See also *List of mayors in Croatia References External links Grad Zagreb - svi gradonačelnici {{Elections in Zagreb Zagreb * History of Zagreb Mayors In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a Municipal corporation, municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilitie ...
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Proportional Representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) among voters. The aim of such systems is that all votes cast contribute to the result so that each representative in an assembly is mandated by a roughly equal number of voters, and therefore all votes have equal weight. Under other election systems, a bare Plurality (voting), plurality or a scant majority in a district are all that are used to elect a member or group of members. PR systems provide balanced representation to different factions, usually defined by parties, reflecting how votes were cast. Where only a choice of parties is allowed, the seats are allocated to parties in proportion to the vote tally or ''vote share'' each party receives. Exact proportionality is never achieved under PR systems, except by chance. The use of elector ...
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List Of Mayors Of Zagreb
This article contains a list of people who have served as mayor of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, or president of the Zagreb Assembly. List See also * List of mayors in Croatia References External links Grad Zagreb - svi gradonačelnici {{Elections in Zagreb Zagreb * History of Zagreb Mayors In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a Municipal corporation, municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilitie ...
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2021 Croatian Local Elections
The first round of the 2021 Croatian local elections were held on 16 May and the Two-round system, second round, where necessary, on 30 May. All seats of the county prefects, city and municipal mayors and members of county, municipal and city councils were up for election. In total, there were 8,216 open seats to be contested by 38,223 candidates. Voters elected 20 county prefects, 128 city mayors, 428 municipal mayors and 7,640 others for positions of deputy county prefects, deputy city mayors, deputy municipal mayors, deputy city and municipal mayors elected by the national minorities, county councilors, city councilors and municipal councilors. About 3,660,000 voters had the right to vote. Before the elections were even held, the outcome was already settled in five towns including Hrvatska Kostajnica, Nin, Croatia, Nin, Novigrad, Istria County, Novigrad, Pakrac and Skradin, as well as 66 municipalities, because in all those instances there was only one candidate in the running. ...
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Zagreb
Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level, above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city itself had a population of 767,131, while the population of Zagreb metropolitan area is 1,086,528. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Šćitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol, Zagreb, Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851, Janko Kamauf became Zagreb's List of mayors of Zagreb, first mayor. Zagreb has special status as a Administrative divisions of Croatia, Croatian administrative ...
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Lawmaking
Lawmaking is the process of crafting legislation. In its purest sense, it is the basis of governance. Lawmaking in modern democracies is the work of legislatures, which exist at the local, regional, and national levels and make such laws as are appropriate to their level, and binding over those under their jurisdictions. These bodies are influenced by lobbyists, pressure groups, sometimes partisan considerations, but ultimately by the voters who elected them and to which they are responsible, if the system is working as intended. Even the expenditure of governmental funds is an aspect of lawmaking, as in most jurisdictions the budget is a matter of law. In dictatorships and absolute monarchies the leader can make law essentially by the stroke of a pen, one of the main objections to such an arrangement. However, a seemingly-analogous event can occur even in a democracy where the executive can make executive orders which have the force of law. In some instance, even regula ...
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Old City Hall (Zagreb)
The Old City Hall () is a complex of three adjacent buildings located in the Gradec neighbourhood in Zagreb, Croatia. The three buildings were joined in the late 19th century and since then, the complex has served as the place where all sessions of the city assembly are held. History The earliest mention of the site dates from the 15th century, when a house on the same location was referred as "the Gradec city council building", and in 1614 the Gradec magistrate Jakov Gasparini had the house adapted into a town hall. According to historical records, in 1787 the building had eight rooms, a kitchen, three jails, two shops and a cellar. In 1803 the municipal authorities bought the adjacent building owned by count Adam Oršić, in order to expand the town hall. In 1832 local merchant Kristofor Stanković had won the main prize at the Vienna lottery and then decided to invest his winnings in building a city theatre. City authorities then added a second floor to Oršić's one-sto ...
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