Following Franjo Tuđman's May 1990 election victory, he and his ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party began a takeover of radio and television. In June 1990, the Croatian Parliament renamed the company from Radio Television Zagreb () to Croatian Radiotelevision (). The HDZ-majority Croatian Parliament soon appointed party loyalists to top managerial and editorial positions on the broadcaster. The film director Antun Vrdoljak, a Tuđman appointee who was tasked with overseeing the changes, pledged to make HRT into the "cathedral of the Croatian spirit". On 16 September 1991, 300 employees at HRT were fired for "security reasons". According to Miljenko Jergović, formerly of the Croatian independent "Feral Tribune", there were three waves of purges at HRT at this time: removal of Serb journalists; removal of "independent-minded, respected and thus dangerous" journalists; and slowly, the removal of those who did not support ultranationalism any longer.