Charter for Rijeka (Lista za Rijeku)

Charter for Rijeka, (Lista za Rijeku, Lista per Fiume), a regional political party with strong local-patriotic, autonomous and progressive-liberal tendencies, based in the city of Rijeka. Founded in 2006 Charter for Rijeka is active primarily within the confines of the city of Rijeka and the boroughs surrounding it (the so-called Rijeka ring). Its main aim is to achieve increased authority and development for the regional and local government, and that should be realised through the retention of 70% of the locally collected taxes (which currently go to the central government coffers in Zagreb). The party also advocates the creation of the Croatian region of Liburnia (stretching from Istria to the city of Zadar), that should have a high level of self-governing autonomy and the city of Rijeka as its capital with a special autonomous self-governing status.

Party president is Mr Denis Pesut, and its governing body is its 9-member presidency council.

The party has already appeared at two local council elections at which a party candidate, Mr Predrag Blecic, was elected as a councillor for the Srdoci local council. At the national elections in 2007 the party had a candidate for the Italian national minority MP (member of the Croatian Parliament) - Mr. Lucio Slama.

Charter for Rijeka is a candidate for the European Free Alliance.