Editing Franjo Tuđman (section)

====Health problems and death====
Tuđman was diagnosed with cancer in 1993. His general health had deteriorated by the late 1990s. On 1 November 1999 he appeared in public for the last time. While being hospitalized opposition parties accused the ruling [[HDZ]] of hiding the fact that Tuđman was already dead and that the authorities were keeping his death secret in order to win more seats in the upcoming [[2000 Croatian parliamentary election|January 2000 general election]]. Tuđman's death was officially declared on 10 December 1999.<ref name="Death">{{cite news|date=11 December 1999|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/559712.stm|title=Croats mourn Croatian president|work=BBC News|quote=His organs did not function properly, he was taken off the life support system he had been attached to since his November surgery. Tudjman died at 23:14 (22:14 GMT) on Friday [10 Dec] at the Dubrava clinic in the capital Zagreb, a government spokesman said.}}
[http://archives.cnn.com/1999/WORLD/europe/12/13/croatia.tudjman.02/index.html Death of Tudjman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607094622/http://archives.cnn.com/1999/WORLD/europe/12/13/croatia.tudjman.02/index.html |date=7 June 2009 }}, cnn.com; 13 December 1999; accessed 16 May 2015.</ref> He had a funeral Mass in [[Zagreb Cathedral]] and was buried in [[Mirogoj Cemetery]].{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}