Hrvatski Liberalni Demokrati
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Hrvatski Liberalni Demokrati (HLD) was one of the oldest political parties in 
Croatia. HLD was in the top 6 largest parties in Croatia from its foundation till its ending in 2011 (the only exception was June 2010 takeover). The greatest achievement of the new HLD is the Congress System which secured that all congress members stay in Congress for the whole mandate. In June 2010 party takeover has forced party leaders to switch to the new party so the old ID 2331 was replaced with the new one - 2959. After Croatia was erased from the map of the New World all of the parties were moved to 
Serbia. Party leaders managed to replace the old party with a new one. The latest ID was 3232. It was reborn in January 2016 as Liberalni Demokrati.
History
The party was founded by Lukok in December 2008. There is quite little data about the beginnings of the HLD as there were a lot of changes in the party leadership. In March, top politicians from Hrvatska Ujedinjena Stranka (HUS) were unhappy with the status of their current party and joined HLD with ambitions to build the strongest party in Croatia. They decided not to change the party name, but from March when someone was talking about HLD, they knew that this was the new HLD.
New HLD
Borg Master and bojanski were the people who started this new HLD. They arrived on 27th and 28th February 2009. After their arrival, others from HUS came (andycro, JuniorSoprano, Josip Josipovic, GP.1, ice_1, zugec, Branimir Vukadin, Tomislav, Ivan Veliki, Kachaa and others) and revived HLD. It was very interesting that former Croatian President Roby Petric also joined HLD.
The acceptance
As New HLD was the opposition to the Hrvatska Demokratska Stranka, the leading Party in Croatia, and after Borg Master published his article, country President at the time, Split1700, and former Croatian President Roby Petric declared the HLD as not good for Croatia.
Gathering the influence
For the April 2009 Presidential elections, HLD had their own candidate - andycro. But, the main goal of this campaign was not winning the election, it was recruiting new members for the party. And new members came. The number of members was doubled.
Country President
Great success was made in July 2009 when all parties decided to support andycro who was later elected as the country President, being the first President that was not from Hrvatska Demokratska Stranka party.
First women party president
On August 15 2009, HLD again shows superior thinking to any other party in Croatia. Una73 was elected as Party president and she become the first woman party president in Croatia.
Paramilitary unit created
At the end of May 2010, the idea of creating the paramilitary unit of HLD has finally starting to realize. Hrvatski sokolovi (Eng. Croatian Hawks) with commander Tina.KA started to work sometime in Mid-June with most of its operation done from Croatian soil. From October, Hrvatski sokolovi weren't connected to HLD anymore. They functioned as an autonomous military unit.
June takeover
In June 2010 party elections, Strihnin won and renamed the party to Mladez Koza Nostre as he was in fact a member of Koza Nostra. This move enraged the leading people of HLD and at a special meeting with around 15 members, it was decided that the party will be moved to one inactive party. It has to be said that GP.1 was the ingame party president from June 17 in this new party, but the official party president was in fact Denis Radman, a person that should have become the party president on June 16 in the old party. On June 20, the party returned to the top 5 Croatian parties.
The end
Nobody knows what really happened to the HLD, but it vanished from the New World. Later it was reborn as Liberalni Demokrati in January 2016.
Party presidents
| Party president (PP) | Term started | Term ended | Important notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lukok | December 2008 | February 15th 2009 | Founding father of the Party |
| Jure Zubcic | February 16th 2009 | March 15th 2009 | Party president of a "dead" party |
| andycro | March 16th 2009 | May 15th 2009 | Party reorganization, chat and forum created. |
| Johny Stulic | May 16th 2009 | July 15th 2009 | On July 3, Johny resigned in favor of GP.1, but remained pp on paper until July party elections[1] On July 6, andycro was elected Country President becoming the first HLD member to be elected as CP |
| GP.1 | July 16th 2009 | August 15th 2009 | |
| Una73 | August 16th 2009 | September 15th 2009 | |
| GP.1 | September 15th 2009 | October 16th 2009 | |
| Dino_zippo | October 16th 2009 | December 15th 2009 | |
| GP.1 | December 16th 2009 | January 15th 2010 | On July 6, GP.1 was elected Country President becoming the second HLD member to be elected as CP |
| Zerocool12 | January 16th 2010 | February 15th 2010 | |
| andycro | February 16th 2010 | April 15th 2010 | Termination of the big coalition HSP-HLD-HUS |
| HrvojeZ | April 16th 2010 | May 2nd 2010 | Resigned |
| GP.1 | May 3rd 2010 | May 15th 2010 | Interim party president |
| Marculius | May 16th 2010 | June 15th 2010 | |
| Denis Radman | June 16th 2010 | July 2010 | Party was PTOed in June elections so the party was "moved" to one of the inactive parties and soon became, again, the top 5 Croatian party |
| SLADJAN SLATKI | July 15th 2010 | August 16th 2010 | HLD does not exist in Croatia. The president is an institution outside of eRepublik boundaries. Party has financial problems. |
| retrodevil | August 18th 2010 | September 15th 2010 | In a deal with the president of Free Croatia, Master of Dojo (Ivan Marko), HLD is back on the political scene in Croatia. The party is recovering from earlier financial troubles. |
| Filemona | September 16th 2010 | October 15th 2010 | Big scandal when the president forgot to propose the presidential candidate dSoKre. |
| retrodevil | October 16th 2010 | November 15th 2010 | |
| Tulatix | November 16th 2010 | December 15th 2010 | |
| Mali_patuljak | December 16th 2010 | January 15th 2011 | |
| ShadowMJ | January 16th 2011 | February 15th 2011 | |
| Johny Stulic | February 16th 2011 | March 15th 2011 | |
| Cratia_man | March 16th 2011 | April 15th 2011 | |
| zoja | April 16th 2011 | June 15th 2011 | |
| retrodevil | June 16th 2011 | July 15th 2011 | |
| Josip Josipovic | July 16th 2011 | August 15th 2011 | |
| glady | August 16th 2011 | October 15th 2011 | |
| retrodevil | October 16th 2011 | December 15th 2011 | |
| berinnii | December 16th 2011 | January 15th 2012 | |
| adssy | January 16th 2012 | February 15th 2012 | |
| Mulac123 | February 16th 2012 | March 15th 2012 | |
| berinnii | March 16th 2012 | October 15th 2012 | |
| Zbnj | October 16th 2012 | end |
Congress members
This is the complete list of Congressmen that served their terms as HLD candidates. 48 HLD members served at least one term as HLD Congress member.
| Congres member | Nr of terms |
|---|---|
| andycro | 4 |
| letodred | 3 |
| Branimir Vukadin | 3 |
| GP.1 | 3 |
| Una73 | 3 |
| zugec | 1 |
| dr. Boza Chaos | 1 |
| Max_Payne | 1 |
| Melkior Tresic | 1 |
| DIavolo72 | 1 |
| Radijator | 1 |
| Croatiangamer | 1 |
| Johny Stulic | 2 |
| Josip Josipovic | 1 |
| Vladimir Andreev | 1 |
| Vim Kola | 1 |
| CroPsychooo | 1 |
| Child Of Decadence* | 1 |
| ivanadabo* | 1 |
| DJ BoSna* | 1 |
| Burekcina* | 1 |
| travin mihovil | 1 |
| byserabya | 1 |
| Joe DiMaggio O_o | 3 |
| Don-Vito | 1 |
| Dino_zippo | 2 |
| Parizer | 1 |
| Jaficek | 1 |
| Trenk | 1 |
| dancingwoman27 | 5 |
| HrvojeZ | 1 |
| doki1919 | 1 |
| zvoc | 1 |
| Lord Wrick | 1 |
| SinCr0 | 4 |
| ratrak | 1 |
| disaster martin | 1 |
| ivan9296 | 1 |
| Ahileus | 2 |
| InChY | 1 |
| Mr Dalibor | 2 |
| Moroplovac | 1 |
| Igor Ivkovic | 1 |
| Buic Brutus | 1 |
| Marko Grozni | 1 |
| Zerocool12 | 1 |
| Crni Roko | 1 |
| Bruno Shadow | 1 |
Notes:
- People with an asterisk (*) served a term in "old" HLD (before the new HLD was established in February 2009.
- Last update of the list: March 19, 2010
