Rise and Fall of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader

By Boris Divjak, Senior Fellow, Adriatic Institute for Public Policy and Member of Board of Directors of Transparency International, Berlin, Germany
 

Having been formally appointed the Prime Minister of Croatia on 23 December 2003, Dr. Ivo Sanader succeeded late Ivica Racan at the moment when the previous government was losing pace and struggled to maintain internal cohesion, which led the ruling six-party coalition into avoiding most painstaking reformist decisions.