Cabinet of Ivica Račan II

Second Račan Cabinet
8th cabinet of Croatia
Date formed	30 July 2002
Date dissolved	23 December 2003
People and organisations
Head of government	Ivica Račan
Deputy head of government	Goran Granić Ante Simonić Slavko Linić Željka Antunović
Head of state	Stjepan Mesić
Number of ministers	24 (in and attending cabinet)
Ministers removed (Death/resignation/dismissal)	1
Total number of ministers	25
Member parties	Social Democratic Party Party of Liberal Democrats Croatian Peasant Party Croatian People's Party Liberal Party
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition party	Croatian Democratic Union
Opposition leader	Ivo Sanader
History
Election(s)	3 January 2000
Legislature term(s)	2000-2003
Predecessor	Cabinet of Ivica Račan I
Successor	Cabinet of Ivo Sanader I

The second Cabinet of Prime Minister Ivica Račan was the Croatian Government cabinet announced on 30 July 2002. It was the 8th cabinet of Croatia, and its term ended on 23 December 2003. Račan's second cabinet was formed after Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) had decided to leave the ruling six-party coalition. The cabinet was succeeded by Cabinet of Ivo Sanader I, following the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union's return to power in the 2003 parliamentary elections.

Parties included in the government:

Party breakdown of cabinet ministers (23 December 2003):

Following the exit of IDS (in June 2001) and HSLS (in July 2002) from the ruling coalition, the cabinet was reconstructed. IDS only had one seat in the cabinet which had already been taken over by SDP. As for seven HSLS members of government (six ministers and one deputy prime minister), they were replaced either by members of SDP or by politicians from HSLS' splinter party Libra (Party of Liberal Democrats) which was formed by former HSLS members who decided to support the government rather than follow HSLS president Dražen Budiša's decision to leave the coalition and move into opposition. A third liberal party LS (Liberalna stranka), which had been established in 1997 by Vlado Gotovac as an earlier offshoot of HSLS, also chose to support the ruling coalition and gained one seat in the cabinet.

Some periods in the table start before the cabinet's inauguration, when the minister listed was appointed to the post in the preceding Cabinet of Ivica Račan I (27 January 2000 – 30 July 2002).

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