 The Serbs within Croatia did not initially seek independence before 1990. In the 1990 elections, Serb majority municipalities in Croatia largely voted for the Communist Party of Croatia, because the Communist Party was more likely to defeat the nationalist Croatian Democratic Union, than the Serb Democratic Party was. After the election of Tuđman and the Croatian Democratic Union, a Serbian Assembly was established in Srb, north of Knin, on 25 July 1990 as the political representation of the Serbian people in Croatia. The Serbian Assembly declared "sovereignty and autonomy of the Serb people in Croatia".
