Liberalism in Croatia
This article gives an overview of liberalism in Croatia. Liberals became active since 1860 in Dalmatia and since 1904 in the rest of Croatia. It never became a major political party. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ denotes another party in that scheme. For inclusion in this scheme it isn't necessary so that parties labeled themselves as a liberal party. History. After the restoration of democracy in 1989 liberalism became very divided. At the moment (August, 2017) one could distinguish five  parties: the right of center Croatian Social Liberal Party ("Hrvatska socijalno-liberalna stranka", member LI, ELDR), two center liberal parties: Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats ("Hrvatska narodna stranka - liberalni demokrati", observer LI, member ELDR) and People's Party - Reformists ("Narodna stranka – reformisti", member EDP), while left of center is Civic Liberal Alliance ("Građansko-liberalni savez", GLAS). Reformists and GLAS are formed from dissidents of the Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats. Istrian Democratic Assembly ("Istarski demokratski sabor - Dieta Democratica Istriana", member EDP) is considered as Istrian regionalist, but also as a liberal party. Main media exponents of Croatian liberalism  or liberal ideas include or included newspapers "Novi list" and "Glas Istre", culture magazine "Zarez" and the defunct weekly "Feral Tribune".