Abstract
The new system of directly elected mayors implemented in Croatia in 2009 faced its most severe difficulties in municipalities with divided power, where the mayor and council majority represent different 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 significant 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.
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