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Zagreb - Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković, at the beginning of the parliamentary session on Monday, recalled the 175th anniversary of the enthronement of Ban Josip Jelačić, and on that occasion, a replica of Jelačić's ban flag was hung in the Parliament.
Due to the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Parliament is in session this week from Monday to Wednesday, and MPs open the working week with a discussion on the report on the work of the State Audit Office for 2022.
At the beginning of the session, Jandroković reminded that Jelačić was enthroned as Croatian ban on 5 June, 1848, and his ban flag was first hung in the Croatian Parliament 175 years ago, during its then session.
The red and white colors on the Ban tricolor were taken from the coat of arms of Croatia, and the blue and white from those of Dalmatia and Slavonia. Together with the coats of arms of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, these three colors formed a clear symbol of the then desire for a three-kingdom, that is, the unity of Croatian countries, he added.
Jandroković reminded that the Parliament, which began its session on 5 June, 1848, was in the convocation that was elected for the first time in history through public elections, and the first MPs were the champions of the Croatian people's movement (Gaj, Šokčević, Kukuljević Sakcinski, Vukotinović, Mažuranić and others).
The first Parliament that sat in the Croatian language
In addition, in 1848, a series of far-reaching decisions were made, such as the abolition of serfdom and the request for the unification of Dalmatia and the Military Frontier with Croatia and Slavonia, as well as the request for a constitutional limitation of the power of the Habsburg monarch and the confirmation of Ban Jelačić's decision to break off relations with Hungary.
It was also the first Parliament that sat in the Croatian language, Jandroković reminded.