Serbs became opposed to any status that would make them remain in an independent Croatia.
Newly independent Croatia closed down a weekly magazine critical of the ruling party and ordered criminal charges against several opposition leaders.
Radić still held on to the idea of an independent Croatia, and kept the party out of parliament in protest.
Previous results for the independent Croatia were mixed, with their first two entries gaining 15th and 16th position.
He lived there until 1993, when he moved back to the newly independent Croatia.
Serbs living in a nationalist, independent Croatia feel mortally threatened.
Relations between the two countries started in 1991 with the recognition of independent Croatia by Turkey.
After the war goes back to Yugoslavia, and then finally to new founded independent Croatia.
Its aim was to start an uprising in Yugoslavia and to establish an independent Croatia.
This is not what the Union had in mind when it recognized an independent Croatia.