Abstract
Biography of Jovan Rašković, a Croatian Serb psychiatrist, academic and politician. In early 1990, Rašković went into politics and founded the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), which took part in first democratic elections.
Although the SDS won relatively few seats in the 1990 elections, it quickly began to increase its power, and Rašković was soon perceived as a leader of Serbs by Franjo Tuđman and his new government. That led to direct negotiations between the two about the future of Serb minority in Croatia.
Later in 1990, Rašković was removed from power by "more radical, hard-line Serb nationalists" and retired from politics in 1991.