| |||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 51.18% (first round), 54.99% (second round) | ||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||
|
Presidential elections were held in Croatia in December 2019 and January 2020. The decision to call the elections was made by the Croatian Government during its session on 14 November 2019. [2] Potential candidates were required to gather at least 10,000 signatures from Croatian citizens who have reached the age of 18 in order for their candidacy to become official and for their name to appear on the ballot. They were allocated a time frame of twelve days to accomplish this and thus had until midnight local time on 3 December 2019 to present their signatures to the State Electoral Commission. A total of twelve candidates submitted signatures by the deadline and the commission then proceeded to verify the signatures within the following 48 hours, presenting a final list of eleven approved candidates on 5 December 2019. [3] [4]
In the first round of the election, which was held on 22 December 2019, former prime minister Zoran Milanović finished in first place with 30% of the vote. He was followed closely by incumbent president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, who received 27% of the vote and by Miroslav Škoro with 25%. As no candidate received an absolute majority, a run-off took place on 5 January 2020 between Milanović and Grabar-Kitarović. Milanović won the second round with 53% of the vote and was elected the fifth president of Croatia since independence in 1991, while Grabar-Kitarović became the second consecutive president not to have been reelected for a second term, after Ivo Josipović (2010–2015). The number of votes received by Milanović in both the first and the second round was the lowest of any victorious presidential candidate to date, while the number of votes and vote share of Grabar-Kitarović in the first round was the lowest for any incumbent president running for re-election.
The incumbent president of Croatia, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, took office on 19 February 2015 and her term is due to end on 18 February 2020. [5] The presidential term of Zoran Milanović is due to begin on 19 February 2020 and end on 18 February 2025.
The president of Croatia is directly elected by secret ballot to a term of 5 years using a two-round system. The Constitution of Croatia requires that a presidential election be held no sooner than 60 days and no later than 30 days before the expiration of the incumbent president's term. An absolute majority (50% + 1 vote) of all votes cast (including invalid, blank and uncast ballots) is required to win in the first round. If no candidate acquires such a majority, a second-round is to be held in 14 days' time, with the two candidates with the highest number of votes in the first round taking part. The candidate who acquires the highest number of votes in the second round (a majority of valid cast votes) is declared the winner. If one of the candidates who has won a high enough number of votes to take part in the second round were to abandon his candidacy or die, the candidate with the next highest number of votes in the first round will earn the right to take part in the second round. Furthermore, Croatian presidents may serve a maximum of two 5-year terms in their lifetime (a total of 10 years if both terms are won and served out in full). [6]
In order for a potential candidate to be legally allowed to contest the election and have their name placed on the ballot, they must gather at least 10,000 signatures from eligible voters, with every such signatory being permitted to give his signature of support to only one potential candidate. The time frame for collecting the said number of signatures is set at 12 days, and after the expiry of this period potential candidates must submit them to the State Electoral Commission for verification. [7]
On 5 December, the State Electoral Commission published a list of 11 candidates. [8]
Candidate | Party affiliation | Political remarks | Proof of nomination | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nedjeljko Babić | Croatian Party of all Chakavians, Kajkavians and Shtokavians | The candidate of a regional party, the Croatian Party of all Chakavians, Kajkavians and Shtokavians (HSSČKŠ). His bid was announced on 26 September. | Submitted some 14,000 signatures on 30 November. [9] | ||
Anto Đapić | Democratic Alliance for National Renewal | Đapić is nominated as the candidate of a right-wing party, the Democratic Alliance for National Renewal (DESNO). His bid was announced on 18 September. [10] Declared himself the only true hard-right candidate. [11] Formerly an MP (1992–2009) and the Mayor of Osijek (2005–2007, 2009), previously ran in the 2000 election as the candidate of the Croatian Party of Rights, finishing in 5th place in the first round. | Submitted some 13,000 signatures on 2 December. [12] | ||
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (runner-up) | Independent [a] | Incumbent President of Croatia since 2015. Grabar-Kitarović is standing for re-election to a second and final term. Although formally independent, she was nominated by the ruling Croatian Democratic Union and is supported by three other centrist to right-wing parties (HSP AS, BM 365, and HDS). [11] [13] She is running on a centre-right platform. Her bid was announced on 8 August. [14] | Submitted some 231,000 signatures on 3 December. [15] | ||
Dario Juričan (legal name is Milan Bandić) | Independent | Filmmaker born as Dario Juričan. In 2019, he legally changed his name to that which is identical to the name of the incumbent Mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandić. [16] His bid was announced on 18 September and is running on an anti-Milan Bandić satirical platform. [17] | Submitted some 13,000 signatures on 3 December. [18] | ||
Mislav Kolakušić | Independent | Former judge and independent Member of the European Parliament for Croatia. His bid was announced on 27 May. [19] He is running as an anti-establishment independent candidate, [20] focusing on anti-corruption and smaller government policies. [11] | Submitted some 15,000 signatures on 29 November. [21] | ||
Dejan Kovač | Croatian Social Liberal Party | An economist at the Princeton University. [22] Kovač is a candidate of the centre to centre-right Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS), although he is not their member. His bid was announced on 4 August. | Submitted some 16,000 signatures on 1 December. [23] | ||
Zoran Milanović (winner) | Social Democratic Party | Candidate of the biggest opposition party, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP), and is supported by 12 other centre-left, green and liberal parties (HSS, HSU, PGS, NS-R, Democrats, IDS, HL, SU, Glas, MDS, SNAGA, ZS, ORaH). His bid was announced on 17 June. [24] Former Prime Minister of Croatia (2011–2016) and the president of SDP (2007–2016). | Submitted some 78,000 signatures on 26 November. [25] | ||
Dalija Orešković | Independent | Orešković was nominated as an independent candidate, although she leads the Party of Anti-corruption, Development and Transparency (START). Her bid was announced on 7 July 2019. In 2018, she had initially publicly stated that she wouldn't run in the election. [26] She is running on an anti-corruption platform. [11] Former Chair of Conflicts of Interest Committee of the Croatian Parliament (2013–2018). | Submitted some 11,000 signatures on 3 December. [27] | ||
Katarina Peović | Workers' Front | Peović was nominated by her own party, the left-wing Workers' Front, and is supported by the Socialist Labour Party. [28] [29] Running on a democratic socialist platform. [30] Her bid was announced on 18 December 2018. Formerly a member of the Zagreb Assembly (2018). | Submitted some 14,000 signatures on 3 December. [31] | ||
Ivan Pernar | Party of Ivan Pernar | At the time a member of the Croatian Parliament. Pernar was nominated by his own party, which bears his name. Running on a populist platform. He announced his intention to run on 7 June 2019 and officially launched a candidacy on 21 June 2019. [32] [33] | Submitted some 15,000 signatures on 3 December. [34] | ||
Miroslav Škoro | Independent | Popular folk musician and formerly a member of the Croatian Parliament (2008). Running as an independent candidate, supported by right-wing and anti-establishment parties. [20] His bid is endorsed by HKS, Hrast, UHD, Most, Green List [35] and was announced on 23 June. [36] | Submitted some 70,000 signatures on 3 December. [37] |
These individuals failed to submit the required number of endorsement signatures.
These individuals have been the subject of presidential speculation, but have publicly denied or recanted interest in running for president.
After official validation of candidates by the State Electoral Commission, the first debate was a confrontation between Katarina Peović (RF and SRP) and Anto Đapić (Democratic Alliance for National Renewal), the most left-wing and the most-right wing candidate respectively, which was filmed by and broadcast on N1 television on 5 December 2019. [65]
On 17 December, the Croatian Radiotelevision held the general debate with all 11 candidates participated. [66] It was the only debate where all first-round candidates participated.
On 30 December, RTL held the first general debate with two second round candidates participated. [67] Croatian Radiotelevision held the second debate on 2 January 2020. [68] The third and final general debate was held on Nova TV on 3 January. [69]
Polls conducted after the official start of the campaign
Date | Polling Firm | Grabar-Kitarović | Milanović | Škoro | Kolakušić | Juričan | Orešković | Pernar | Peović | Kovač | Đapić | Babić | Undecided / none | Lead |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
22 Dec 2019 | Exit poll | 25,63 | 28,69 | 24,26 | 6,23 | 4,77 | 3,39 | 2,78 | 1,11 | 1,07 | 0,37 | 0,45 | - | 3,06 |
20 Dec 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 24,2 | 24,3 | 18,0 | 5,5 | 3,3 | 2,8 | 3,4 | 1,4 | 2,3 | 1,1 | 0,0 | 13,6 | 0,1 |
20 Dec 2019 | Promocija plus | 27,9 | 26,7 | 19,3 | 6,8 | 1,8 | 2,9 | 3,1 | 0,9 | 2,2 | 0,4 | 0,2 | 7,7 | 1,2 |
19 Dec 2019 | Promocija plus | 28,3 | 26,6 | 20,7 | 7,6 | 1,5 | 2,4 | 2,8 | 0,9 | 2,6 | 0,4 | 0,4 | 5,9 | 1,7 |
19 Dec 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 25,3 | 26,0 | 23,8 | 6,1 | 1,3 | 1,0 | 1,2 | 1,1 | 0,9 | 1,2 | 0,4 | 11,7 | 0,7 |
11 Dec 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 24,1 | 25,2 | 22,5 | 10,6 | 1,2 | 1,4 | 2,5 | 0,9 | 1,1 | 1,8 | 0,2 | 8,5 | 1,1 |
10 Dec 2019 | Promocija plus | 26,8 | 25,4 | 21,0 | 10,6 | 0,9 | 2,6 | 1,9 | 0,9 | 1,5 | 0,4 | 0,3 | 7,9 | 1,4 |
7 Dec 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 26,0 | 29,0 | 21,9 | 11,0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3,0 |
6 Dec 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 27,4 | 24,0 | 23,0 | 8,2 | 1,2 | 1,3 | 2,9 | 0,2 | 2,6 | 0,2 | 0,5 | 8,0 | 3,4 |
Date | Polling Firm | Grabar- Kitarović | Milanović | Škoro | Kolakušić | Pernar | Orešković | Panenić | Peović | Bandić | Esih | Sinčić | Petrov | Vučetić | Jurišić | Mesić | Mrak- Taritaš | Others | Don't know | Lead | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
25 Nov 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 32,4 | 21,9 | 17,3 | 7,4 | 3,0 | 3,1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3,3 | 7,9 | 10,5 | ||||
20 Nov 2019 | Promocija plus | 28,9 | 26,4 | 17,6 | 12,1 | 2,1 | 2,3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,8 | 5,0 | 2,5 | ||||
17 Nov 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 27,7 | 25,1 | 20,5 | 9,3 | 1,2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13,4 | 2,6 | ||||
11 Nov 2019 | Promocija plus | 28,6 | 24,3 | 16,7 | 14,0 | 1,3 | 2,5 | - | 0,3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,0 | 6,1 | 4,3 | ||||
28 Oct 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 27,1 | 27,6 | 21,0 | 5,9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13,2 | 0,5 | ||||
26 Oct 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 34,5 | 24,9 | 18,3 | 5,1 | 4,0 | 2,9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4,6 | 4,1 | 9,6 | ||||
20 Oct 2019 | Promocija plus | 29,8 | 25,8 | 19,1 | 7,1 | 1,9 | 2,6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,9 | 6,7 | 4,0 | ||||
7 Oct 2019 | Promocija plus | 29,8 | 25,6 | 19,1 | 6,4 | 1,6 | 1,9 | - | 0,6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,0 | 6,2 | 4,2 | ||||
1 Oct 2019 | David Lucijan Rožman (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
30 Sep 2019 | Ava Karabatić (Ind.) officially announces her candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
26 Sep 2019 | Nedjeljko Babić (HSSČKŠ) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
25 Sep 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 34,3 | 23,9 | 20,2 | 6,2 | 3,7 | 3,3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4,4 | 2,2 | 10,4 | ||||
21 Sep 2019 | Promocija plus | 28,5 | 24,8 | 18,2 | 8,6 | 2,7 | 2,6 | 0,5 | 0,5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,9 | 7,1 | 3,7 | ||||
20 Sep 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 29,2 | 28,5 | 17,5 | 4,6 | 1,3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14,8 | 0,7 | ||||
18 Sep 2019 | Anto Đapić (DESNO) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 Sep 2019 | Dario Juričan (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
16 Sep 2019 | Ivan Rude (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
9 Sep 2019 | Promocija plus | 30,2 | 25,5 | 19,2 | 9,3 | 2,0 | 2,3 | 0,7 | 0,7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,5 | 4,6 | 4,7 | ||||
7 Sep 2019 | Josip Juretić (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
24 Aug 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 25,7 | 25,9 | 20,9 | 7,4 | 2,5 | 0,9 | - | 0,1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15,2 | 0,2 | ||||
23 Aug 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 34,6 | 24,6 | 18,0 | 6,4 | 3,9 | 3,4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4,4 | 4,7 | 10,0 | ||||
8 Aug 2019 | Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (HDZ) officially announces her candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5 Aug 2019 | Promocija plus | 29,3 | 24,8 | 18,5 | 12,0 | 3,0 | 1,4 | 0,5 | 0,9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,0 | 7,6 | 4,5 | ||||
4 Aug 2019 | Dejan Kovač (HSLS) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
26 Jul 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 32,8 | 23,4 | 19,9 | 7,1 | 4,5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7,4 | 4,9 | 9,4 | ||||
15 Jul 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 28,1 | 23,6 | 20,9 | 6,2 | 2,3 | 1,1 | 0,6 | 0,3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17,0 | 4,5 | ||||
14 Jul 2019 | Ante Simonić (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 Jul 2019 | Vlaho Orepić (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8 Jul 2019 | Promocija plus | 30,0 | 22,3 | 17,8 | 13,9 | 2,8 | - | 1,5 | 2,1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,4 | 7,2 | 7,7 | ||||
7 Jul 2019 | Dalija Orešković (Ind.) officially announces her candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
28 Jun 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 37,1 | 31,0 | 19,5 | 6,4 | 3,1 | 2,8 | 6,1 | ||||||||||||||||
27 Jun 2019 | Tomislav Panenić (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
23 Jun 2019 | Miroslav Škoro (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
21 Jun 2019 | Ivan Pernar (SIP) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 Jun 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 32,0 | 22,0 | 10,3 | 10,2 | 0,7 | 2,6 | 0,8 | 0,2 | 21,6 | 10,0 | |||||||||||||
17 Jun 2019 | Zoran Milanović (SDP) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
10 Jun 2019 | Promocija plus | 34,5 | 19,8 | 13,8 | 13,1 | 1,9 | 3,3 | 3,3 | 10,9 | 14,7 | ||||||||||||||
27 May 2019 | Mislav Kolakušić (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
21 May 2019 | Promocija plus | 34,7 | 18,5 | 9,4 | 6,7 | 6,0 | 4,0 | 3,7 | 9,2 | 16,2 | ||||||||||||||
9 May 2019 | Promocija plus | 35,3 | 15,4 | 9,9 | 3,5 | 2,8 | 7,5 | 3,2 | 3,7 | 8,4 | 19,9 | |||||||||||||
22 Apr 2019 | Promocija plus | 35,6 | 18,3 | 4,9 | 9,5 | 3,5 | 3,3 | 5,2 | 3,7 | 2,1 | 8,9 | 17,3 | ||||||||||||
8 Apr 2019 | Promocija plus | 34,5 | 16,4 | 10,7 | 4,4 | 5,7 | 4,2 | 3,3 | 5,9 | 18,1 | ||||||||||||||
22 Mar 2019 | Promocija plus | 34,2 | 19,4 | 5,2 | 9,2 | 3,9 | 6,3 | 4,0 | 1,9 | 5,3 | 14,8 | |||||||||||||
7 Mar 2019 | Promocija plus | 32,6 | 19,7 | 12,5 | 4,2 | 4,9 | 4,4 | 0,9 | 12,9 | |||||||||||||||
14 Feb 2019 | Antun Babić (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7 Feb 2019 | Promocija plus | 37,0 | 19,6 | 12,3 | 4,5 | 3,9 | 4,5 | 4,2 | 1,2 | 4,4 | 17,4 | |||||||||||||
10 Jan 2019 | Promocija plus | 38,0 | 17,6 | 12,0 | 4,5 | 4,1 | 7,9 | 6,2 | 1,7 | 20,4 | ||||||||||||||
03 Jan 2019 | Goran Jurišić (HSP 1861) officially announces his candidacy. [45] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 Dec 2018 | Katarina Peović (RF) officially announces her candidacy. [28] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
07 Dec 2018 | Promocija plus | 41,1 | 18,1 | 11,2 | 4,2 | 8,9 | 5,3 | 23 | ||||||||||||||||
14 Nov 2018 | Marko Vučetić (Ind.) officially announces his candidacy. [46] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
25 Apr 2018 | 2x1 komunikacije | 45,8 | 20,5 | 1,4 | 15,7 | 11,7 | 25,3 | |||||||||||||||||
16 Mar 2018 | 2x1 komunikacije | 46,4 | 26,5 | 12,2 | 11,4 | 19,9 | ||||||||||||||||||
03 Feb 2018 | Promocija plus | 43,5 | 22,0 | 11,9 | 6,6 | 5,9 | 10,1 | 21,5 | ||||||||||||||||
17-18 Jan 2018 | IPSOS PULS | 41,0 | 21,0 | 15,0 | 12,0 | 5,0 | 6,0 | 20,0 |
Polls conducted after the first round
Date | Agency | Milanović | Grabar- Kitarović | Undecided/ Neither | Lead |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
5 Jan 2020 | Exit poll | 53,22 | 46,78 | - | 6,44 |
3 Jan 2020 | IPSOS PULS | 45 | 42 | 13 | 3 |
3 Jan 2020 | 2x1 komunikacije | 50,7 | 49,3 | N/A | 1,4 |
31 Dec 2019 | 2x1 komunikacije | 40,0 | 38,9 | 21,2 | 1,1 |
24 Dec 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 48,4 | 41,1 | 10,4 | 7,3 |
Polls conducted after the official start of the campaign
Date | Polling Firm | Grabar-Kitarović | Milanović | Undecided | Lead | Grabar-Kitarović | Škoro | Undecided | Lead | Milanović | Škoro | Undecided | Lead |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
20 Dec 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 43,1 | 40,9 | 5,0 | 2,2 | 38,2 | 36,2 | 5,8 | 2,0 | 37,5 | 47,0 | 4,9 | 9,5 |
20 Dec 2019 | Promocija plus | 49,0 | 45,9 | 5,1 | 3,1 | 45,9 | 46,6 | 7,5 | 0,7 | 45,9 | 47,5 | 6,6 | 1,6 |
19 Dec 2019 | Promocija plus | 49,0 | 46,9 | 4,1 | 2,1 | 45,1 | 48,7 | 6,2 | 3,6 | 44,6 | 50,2 | 5,2 | 6,4 |
10 Dec 2019 | Promocija plus | 48,3 | 47,6 | 4,1 | 0,7 | 45,2 | 50,0 | 4,8 | 4,8 | 43,5 | 52,9 | 3,6 | 9,4 |
6 Dec 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 44,2 | 39,2 | 5,8 | 5,0 | 34,4 | 45,2 | 5,7 | 10,8 | 36,9 | 47,1 | 5,7 | 12,2 |
Opinion polls
Date | Polling Firm | Grabar- Kitarović | Milanović | Undecided | Lead | Grabar- Kitarović | Škoro | Undecided | Lead | Milanović | Škoro | Undecided | Lead | Grabar- Kitarović | Orešković | Undecided | Lead |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
25 Nov 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 53,2 | 33,3 | 4,8 | 19,9 | 44,6 | 37,9 | 6,1 | 6,7 | 35,3 | 47,7 | 5,7 | 12,4 | - | - | - | - |
21 Nov 2019 | Promocija plus | 49,2 | 46,1 | 4,7 | 3,2 | 46,7 | 44,1 | 9,2 | 2,6 | 46,0 | 49,8 | 4,3 | 3,8 | - | - | - | - |
11 Nov 2019 | Promocija plus | 51,8 | 44,5 | 3,7 | 7,3 | 49,2 | 45,6 | 5,1 | 3,6 | 46,3 | 49,6 | 4,1 | 3,3 | - | - | - | - |
26 Oct 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 51,3 | 37,9 | 4,2 | 13,4 | 45,4 | 38,2 | 5,0 | 7,2 | 38,8 | 48,6 | 3,6 | 9,8 | - | - | - | - |
21 Oct 2019 | Promocija plus | 49,0 | 44,1 | 6,9 | 4,9 | 49,4 | 44,0 | 6,6 | 5,4 | 46,2 | 49,5 | 4,4 | 3,3 | - | - | - | - |
7 Oct 2019 | Promocija plus | 50,8 | 44,9 | 4,3 | 5,9 | 48,4 | 42,3 | 9,2 | 6,1 | 45,8 | 49,8 | 4,4 | 4,0 | - | - | - | - |
25 Sep 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 51,5 | 36,0 | 5,2 | 15,5 | 45,8 | 36,8 | 6,0 | 9,0 | 38,2 | 47,8 | 5,0 | 9,6 | - | - | - | - |
22 Sep 2019 | Promocija plus | 52,3 | 43,2 | 4,5 | 9,1 | 49,2 | 41,6 | 9,2 | 7,6 | 45,4 | 49,4 | 5,2 | 4,0 | - | - | - | - |
9 Sep 2019 | Promocija plus | 52,7 | 42,8 | 4,5 | 9,9 | 51,3 | 41,4 | 7,3 | 9,9 | 45,1 | 49,7 | 5,2 | 4,6 | - | - | - | - |
23 Aug 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 51,1 | 36,6 | 5,1 | 14,5 | 46,1 | 36,5 | 5,9 | 9,6 | 38,9 | 46,9 | 4,9 | 8,0 | - | - | - | - |
5 Aug 2019 | Promocija plus | 53,1 | 42,4 | 4,5 | 10,7 | 50,0 | 44,9 | 5,1 | 5,1 | 46,5 | 47,9 | 5,6 | 1,4 | - | - | - | - |
26 Jul 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 53,0 | 37,2 | 4,3 | 15,8 | 46,1 | 37,7 | 5,1 | 8,4 | 38,7 | 48,6 | 5,8 | 9,9 | - | - | - | - |
8 Jul 2019 | Promocija plus | 53,9 | 41,7 | 4,4 | 12,2 | 53,9 | 38,1 | 8,0 | 15,8 | 44,4 | 51,6 | 4,0 | 7,2 | - | - | - | - |
28 Jun 2019 | IPSOS PULS | 56,1 | 35,9 | 3,8 | 20,2 | 50,2 | 35,5 | 5,1 | 14,7 | 41,1 | 48,6 | 3,8 | 7,5 | - | - | - | - |
10 June 2019 | Promocija plus | 54,8 | 38,9 | 6,3 | 15,9 | 57,0 | 35,4 | 7,6 | 21,6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
21 May 2019 | Promocija plus | 53,9 | 39,2 | 6,9 | 14,7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
9 May 2019 | Promocija plus | 56,5 | 37,2 | 6,3 | 19,3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 54,3 | 39,4 | 6,2 | 14,9 |
22 Apr 2019 | Promocija plus | 53,2 | 40,3 | 6,5 | 12,9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
8 Apr 2019 | Promocija plus | 55,4 | 38,6 | 6,0 | 16,8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 51,8 | 41,6 | 6,6 | 10,2 |
22 Mar 2019 | Promocija plus | 52,6 | 38,8 | 8,5 | 13,8 | ||||||||||||
7 Mar 2019 | Promocija plus | 52,9 | 40,8 | 6,3 | 12,1 | ||||||||||||
7 Feb 2019 | Promocija plus | 54,3 | 40,2 | 5,5 | 14,1 | ||||||||||||
10 Jan 2019 | Promocija plus | 54,6 | 37,9 | 7,5 | 16,7 | ||||||||||||
7 Dec 2018 | Promocija plus | 55,4 | 35,7 | 9,0 | 19,7 |
The first round of the election took place on 22 December 2019, with former Social Democratic Prime Minister Zoran Milanović winning by a plurality of 29.55% of the vote, ahead of conservative incumbent President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, who received 26.65% of the vote. [70] The conservative folk musician and former Member of Parliament Miroslav Škoro, who was running as an independent candidate, narrowly failed to reach the run-off election, managing to attract the support of 24.45% of voters. [70] This marked the first time in Croatian history that the incumbent president did not receive the highest number of votes in the first round.[ citation needed ] Also, Grabar-Kitarović attained both the lowest number of votes (507,626) and the lowest percentage of votes of any Croatian president competing in either of the two rounds of elections.[ citation needed ] Milanović received both the lowest number of votes (562,779) and the lowest percentage of the vote of any first-place candidate in the first round of a presidential election.[ citation needed ] Škoro received the highest number of votes (465,703) for a third-placed candidate since Mate Granić (HDZ) in the 2000 elections and the highest-ever percentage of the vote for a candidate who did not advance to the run-off. Milanović received a plurality of the vote in Croatia's three largest cities; 33.02% in Zagreb, 30.79% in Split and 41.87% in Rijeka, and finished second (25.61%) in the fourth largest city, Osijek, which was won by Škoro (33.33%). Grabar-Kitarović came in second in Split and Rijeka, and third in Zagreb and Osijek. [71]
A run-off was held between Milanović and Grabar-Kitarović on 5 January 2020. Milanović won by just over 104,000 votes, becoming the fifth President of Croatia since independence and the second to have been officially nominated by the Social Democratic Party, after Ivo Josipović (2010–2015). Furthermore, Milanović received a majority of the vote in seven counties and in the City of Zagreb, while Grabar-Kitarović defeated him among voters living in thirteen counties and among the members of the Croatian diaspora. However, Milanović defeated Grabar-Kitarović in all four major cities: Zagreb (by around 74,000 votes), Split (by around 3,000 votes), Rijeka (by around 20,000 votes) and Osijek (by around 1,000 votes). [72]
Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
Zoran Milanović | Social Democratic Party | 562,783 | 29.91 | 1,034,170 | 52.66 | |
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | Independent (Croatian Democratic Union) [a] | 507,628 | 26.98 | 929,707 | 47.34 | |
Miroslav Škoro | Independent | 465,704 | 24.75 | |||
Mislav Kolakušić | Independent | 111,916 | 5.95 | |||
Dario Juričan | Independent | 87,883 | 4.67 | |||
Dalija Orešković | Independent | 55,163 | 2.93 | |||
Ivan Pernar | Party of Ivan Pernar | 44,057 | 2.34 | |||
Katarina Peović | Workers' Front | 21,387 | 1.14 | |||
Dejan Kovač | Croatian Social Liberal Party | 18,107 | 0.96 | |||
Anto Đapić | Democratic Alliance for National Renewal | 4,001 | 0.21 | |||
Nedjeljko Babić | HSSČKŠ | 3,014 | 0.16 | |||
Total | 1,881,643 | 100.00 | 1,963,877 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 1,881,643 | 98.83 | 1,963,877 | 95.65 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 22,218 | 1.17 | 89,415 | 4.35 | ||
Total votes | 1,903,861 | 100.00 | 2,053,292 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 3,719,741 | 51.18 | 3,734,115 | 54.99 | ||
Source: Izbori |
County | Electorate | Total votes | Turnout | Babić | Đapić | Grabar-Kitarović | Juričan | Kovač | Milanović | Kolakušić | Orešković | Peović | Pernar | Škoro | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
Bjelovar-Bilogora | 96,483 | 48,448 | 50.21% | 64 | 0.13 | 74 | 0.15 | 12,863 | 26.54 | 1,159 | 2.39 | 903 | 1.86 | 13,272 | 27.39 | 2,812 | 5.80 | 1,078 | 2.22 | 391 | 0.80 | 1,203 | 2.48 | 14,180 | 29.26 |
Brod-Posavina | 133,397 | 65,175 | 48.86% | 35 | 0.05 | 147 | 0.22 | 19,863 | 30.47 | 1,438 | 2.20 | 500 | 0.76 | 13,374 | 20.51 | 3,985 | 6.11 | 1,075 | 1.64 | 385 | 0.59 | 1,704 | 2.61 | 21,805 | 33.45 |
Dubrovnik-Neretva | 107,631 | 55,176 | 51.26% | 54 | 0.09 | 137 | 0.24 | 20,237 | 36.83 | 2,219 | 4.02 | 376 | 0.68 | 14,232 | 25.78 | 2,687 | 4.86 | 1,206 | 2.18 | 458 | 0.82 | 1,205 | 2.18 | 11,320 | 20.51 |
Istria | 185,670 | 88,014 | 47.40% | 147 | 0.16 | 111 | 0.12 | 10,693 | 12.14 | 4,577 | 5.19 | 1,013 | 1.15 | 45,145 | 51.28 | 6,081 | 6.90 | 4,563 | 5.18 | 2,573 | 2.92 | 3,707 | 4.21 | 8,259 | 9.38 |
Karlovac | 107,618 | 57,511 | 53.44% | 70 | 0.12 | 133 | 0.23 | 19,283 | 33.52 | 1,584 | 2.75 | 393 | 0.68 | 16,249 | 28.25 | 2,616 | 4.54 | 1,418 | 2.46 | 465 | 0.80 | 1,153 | 2.00 | 13,498 | 23.46 |
Koprivnica-Križevci | 93,108 | 46,627 | 50.08% | 65 | 0.13 | 78 | 0.16 | 12,307 | 26.39 | 1,439 | 3.08 | 481 | 1.03 | 14,593 | 31.29 | 2,872 | 6.15 | 1,311 | 2.81 | 364 | 0.78 | 1,304 | 2.79 | 11,341 | 24.32 |
Krapina-Zagorje | 108,400 | 54,777 | 50.53% | 656 | 1.19 | 67 | 0.12 | 14,698 | 26.82 | 1,860 | 3.39 | 469 | 0.85 | 19,482 | 35.56 | 3,556 | 6.49 | 1,667 | 3.04 | 370 | 0.67 | 1,652 | 3.01 | 9,638 | 17.59 |
Lika-Senj | 42,849 | 21,017 | 49.05% | 30 | 0.14 | 74 | 0.35 | 9,102 | 43.30 | 399 | 1.89 | 129 | 0.61 | 4,403 | 20.94 | 869 | 4.13 | 451 | 2.14 | 143 | 0.68 | 323 | 1.53 | 4,830 | 22.97 |
Međimurje | 95,840 | 48,227 | 50.32% | 97 | 0.20 | 51 | 0.10 | 8,347 | 17.30 | 1,579 | 3.27 | 612 | 1.26 | 22,066 | 45.75 | 3,620 | 7.50 | 1,820 | 3.77 | 409 | 0.84 | 1,770 | 3.66 | 7,460 | 15.46 |
Osijek-Baranja | 249,085 | 127,069 | 51.01% | 85 | 0.06 | 491 | 0.38 | 33,980 | 26.73 | 3,460 | 2.72 | 901 | 0.70 | 27,710 | 21.80 | 7,272 | 5.72 | 2,642 | 2.07 | 1,030 | 0.81 | 2,808 | 2.20 | 45,266 | 35.61 |
Požega-Slavonia | 64,044 | 35,754 | 55.83% | 21 | 0.05 | 45 | 0.12 | 10,877 | 30.41 | 673 | 1.88 | 224 | 0.62 | 6,974 | 19.50 | 1,865 | 5.21 | 542 | 1.51 | 204 | 0.57 | 777 | 2.17 | 13,137 | 36.73 |
Primorje-Gorski Kotar | 261,760 | 125,606 | 47.99% | 208 | 0.16 | 252 | 0.20 | 27,964 | 22.25 | 6,402 | 5.09 | 1,341 | 1.06 | 49,193 | 39.15 | 8,808 | 7.01 | 6,745 | 5.36 | 2,784 | 2.21 | 3,198 | 2.54 | 17,310 | 13.77 |
Sisak-Moslavina | 141,335 | 67,191 | 47.54% | 80 | 0.11 | 132 | 0.19 | 20,423 | 30.39 | 1,945 | 2.89 | 732 | 1.08 | 17,790 | 26.47 | 3,531 | 5.25 | 1,358 | 2.02 | 515 | 0.76 | 1,600 | 2.38 | 18,278 | 27.19 |
Split-Dalmatia | 404,750 | 198,359 | 49.01% | 155 | 0.07 | 558 | 0.28 | 64,221 | 32.36 | 9,636 | 4.85 | 1,316 | 0.66 | 48,953 | 24.67 | 10,475 | 5.27 | 4,000 | 2.01 | 2,029 | 1.02 | 3,753 | 1.89 | 50,338 | 25.36 |
Šibenik-Knin | 97,235 | 43,709 | 44.95% | 45 | 0.10 | 133 | 0.30 | 15,746 | 36.01 | 1,675 | 3.83 | 305 | 0.69 | 11,156 | 25.51 | 2,397 | 5.48 | 908 | 2.07 | 393 | 0.89 | 947 | 2.16 | 9,387 | 21.47 |
Varaždin | 145,506 | 75,626 | 51.97% | 143 | 0.18 | 103 | 0.13 | 16,694 | 22.07 | 2,470 | 3.26 | 721 | 0.95 | 28,506 | 37.69 | 6,377 | 8.43 | 2,437 | 3.22 | 666 | 0.88 | 2,425 | 3.20 | 14,261 | 18.79 |
Virovitica-Podravina | 69,520 | 38,129 | 54.85% | 30 | 0.07 | 76 | 0.19 | 12,446 | 32.63 | 689 | 1.80 | 310 | 0.81 | 8,661 | 22.71 | 1,899 | 4.97 | 661 | 1.73 | 186 | 0.48 | 878 | 2.30 | 11,882 | 31.15 |
Vukovar-Syrmia | 146,958 | 68,671 | 46.73% | 62 | 0.09 | 171 | 0.24 | 20,849 | 30.35 | 1,412 | 2.05 | 965 | 1.40 | 13,159 | 19.15 | 3,342 | 4.86 | 1,048 | 1.52 | 589 | 0.85 | 1,609 | 2.34 | 24,566 | 35.76 |
Zadar | 160,257 | 71,587 | 44.67% | 100 | 0.13 | 190 | 0.26 | 26,341 | 36.79 | 2,845 | 3.97 | 560 | 0.78 | 17,780 | 24.83 | 3,666 | 5.12 | 1,963 | 2.74 | 663 | 0.92 | 1,591 | 2.22 | 14,881 | 20.78 |
Zagreb County | 273,405 | 144,738 | 52.94% | 288 | 0.19 | 261 | 0.18 | 34,854 | 24.07 | 6,937 | 4.79 | 1,400 | 0.96 | 41,579 | 28.72 | 9,792 | 6.76 | 4,452 | 3.07 | 1,146 | 0.79 | 3,636 | 2.51 | 38,870 | 26.84 |
City of Zagreb | 693,899 | 381,668 | 55.00% | 566 | 0.14 | 612 | 0.16 | 73,958 | 19.36 | 33,145 | 8.67 | 4,377 | 1.14 | 126,142 | 33.02 | 22,688 | 5.93 | 13,616 | 3.56 | 5,413 | 1.41 | 6,323 | 1.65 | 90,890 | 23.79 |
Voting abroad | — | 40,774 | — | 13 | 0.03 | 105 | 0.25 | 21,790 | 53.43 | 339 | 0.83 | 79 | 0.19 | 2,360 | 5.78 | 706 | 1.73 | 202 | 0.49 | 211 | 0.51 | 491 | 1.20 | 14,351 | 35.18 |
TOTAL | 3,719,532 | 1,903,853 | 51.19% | 3,014 | 0.15 | 4,001 | 0.21 | 507,626 | 26.65 | 87,882 | 4.61 | 18,107 | 0.95 | 562,779 | 29.55 | 111,916 | 5.87 | 55,163 | 2.89 | 21,387 | 1.12 | 44,057 | 2.31 | 465,703 | 24.45 |
Source: Izbori | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
County | Electorate | Total votes | Turnout | Milanović | Grabar-Kitarović | ||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bjelovar-Bilogora | 96,509 | 51,452 | 53.32% | 25,398 | 51.6 | 23,820 | 48.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Brod-Posavina | 133,461 | 66,387 | 49.74% | 26,657 | 42.4 | 36,230 | 57.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Dubrovnik-Neretva | 107,714 | 58,465 | 54.29% | 24,219 | 43.5 | 31,477 | 56.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Istria | 185,675 | 98,089 | 52.81% | 76,946 | 80.8 | 18,247 | 19.2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Karlovac | 107,840 | 63,224 | 58.64% | 28,397 | 46.7 | 32,386 | 53.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Koprivnica-Križevci | 93,167 | 50,096 | 53.78% | 27,076 | 56.4 | 20,904 | 43.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Krapina-Zagorje | 108,452 | 61,958 | 57.13% | 35,936 | 60.1 | 23,821 | 39.9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Lika-Senj | 42,867 | 23,306 | 54.37% | 8,167 | 36.2 | 14,374 | 63.8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Međimurje | 95,914 | 54,666 | 57.00% | 39,574 | 74.4 | 13,601 | 25.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Osijek-Baranja | 249,283 | 129,349 | 51.90% | 56,428 | 45.8 | 66,577 | 54.1 | ||||||||||||||||||
Požega-Slavonia | 64,093 | 35,556 | 55.48% | 14,412 | 43.2 | 18,995 | 56.8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Primorje-Gorski Kotar | 261,902 | 135,820 | 51.88% | 84,856 | 64.9 | 45,831 | 35.1 | ||||||||||||||||||
Sisak-Moslavina | 141,362 | 73,367 | 51.91% | 32,937 | 47.0 | 37,174 | 53.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Split-Dalmatia | 405,173 | 219,897 | 54.29% | 87,503 | 41.8 | 121,975 | 58.2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Šibenik-Knin | 97,305 | 50,451 | 51.86% | 20,753 | 42.8 | 27,864 | 57.2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Varaždin | 145,596 | 84,174 | 57.82% | 54,024 | 66.6 | 27,042 | 33.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Virovitica-Podravina | 69,548 | 38,839 | 55.85% | 17,432 | 47.1 | 19,548 | 52.9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Vukovar-Syrmia | 146,989 | 70,371 | 47.88% | 26,722 | 40.1 | 39,984 | 59.9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Zadar | 160,441 | 81,460 | 50.78% | 33,622 | 43.1 | 44,471 | 56.9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Zagreb County | 273,722 | 153,231 | 56.09% | 79,499 | 54.5 | 66,349 | 45.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
City of Zagreb | 694,639 | 400,763 | 57.73% | 227,609 | 59.7 | 153,687 | 40.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Voting abroad | — | 52,373 | — | 6,222 | 12.1 | 45,311 | 87.9 | ||||||||||||||||||
TOTAL | 3,734,115 | 2,053,292 | 55.00% | 1,034,389 | 52.7 | 929,488 | 47.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Source: Izbori | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ipsos Puls exit polls for the first round of the election suggested the following demographic breakdown:
Demographic | Milanović | Grabar-Kitarović | Škoro | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Total vote | 29.6 | 26.7 | 24.5 | |
Gender | ||||
Male | 27.2 | 24.7 | 26.5 | |
Female | 30.3 | 24.4 | 23.2 | |
Age | ||||
18–29 | 15.8 | 18.2 | 31.9 | |
30–44 | 24.8 | 20.3 | 24.2 | |
45–59 | 28.3 | 26.7 | 25.7 | |
60+ | 40.5 | 29.6 | 19.8 | |
Education | ||||
Primary | 21.4 | 40.1 | 26.9 | |
Secondary | 28.4 | 24.3 | 27.2 | |
College degree | 31.8 | 19.9 | 20 | |
Political party [74] | ||||
HDZ | 3.1 | 63 | 26.8 | |
SDP | 77.2 | 1.8 | 6.4 | |
Most | 9.4 | 5.6 | 45.4 | |
ŽZ | 8.5 | 1.5 | 24.9 | |
BM 365 | 12.5 | 18.1 | 36.5 | |
Other parties | 12 | 5.8 | 38.8 |
The president of Croatia, officially the president of the Republic of Croatia, is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the military and chief representative of the Republic of Croatia both within the country and abroad. The president is the holder of the highest office in Croatia. However, the president is not the head of the executive branch as Croatia has a parliamentary system in which the holder of the post of prime minister is the most powerful person within the country's constitutional framework and everyday politics.
The Social Democratic Party of Croatia is a social democratic political party in Croatia. The SDP is anti-fascist, progressive, and strongly pro-European. The SDP was formed in 1990 as the successor of the League of Communists of Croatia, the Croatian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, which had governed Croatia within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia since World War II.
Regular elections in Croatia are mandated by the Constitution and legislation enacted by Parliament. The presidency, Parliament, county prefects and assemblies, city and town mayors, and city and municipal councils are all elective offices. Since 1990, seven presidential elections have been held. During the same period, ten parliamentary elections were also held. In addition, there were nine nationwide local elections. Croatia has also held three elections to elect members of the European Parliament following its accession to the EU on 1 July 2013.
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is a Croatian politician and diplomat who served as the president of Croatia from 2015 to 2020. She was the first woman to be elected to the office since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. At 46 years of age, she also became the youngest person to assume the presidency.
Miroslav Škoro is a Croatian politician, musician, TV host and former diplomat. He is the founder and the first president of the conservative Homeland Movement party, which he established in February 2020 and led until July 2021. As a musician, Škoro is best known for using the traditional Slavonian tamburica instrument in most of his compositions.
Zoran Milanović is a Croatian politician who has been serving as the president of Croatia since 2020. Prior to assuming the presidency, he was prime minister of Croatia from 2011 to 2016, as well as the president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 2007 to 2016.
Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 27 December 2009 and 10 January 2010. Twelve candidates participated in the first round, prior to a run-off between first-round winner Ivo Josipović and runner-up Milan Bandić. In the run-off, Josipović won a landslide victory, receiving 60.3% of the vote becoming the first elected president nominated by the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). The incumbent president Stjepan Mesić, who was first elected in 2000 as the candidate of the Croatian People's Party and re-elected in 2005 as an independent, was ineligible to seek re-election to a third term due to term limits.
Ivo Josipović is a Croatian academic, jurist, composer, and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2010 to 2015.
Rivers of Justice is a centre-left political alliance in Croatia. Gathered around the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), the coalition was originally formed in 2010 as the Kukuriku coalition. This somewhat facetious name meaning 'cock-a-doodle-doo', taken from a restaurant of the same name in Kastav where the coalition leaders first convened in July 2009, became well known and was eventually taken as the coalition's official name. The coalition originally consisted of four centrist and centre-left parties in the Croatian Parliament: the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS-LD), Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU) and Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS). The coalition won an absolute majority of seats in the 2011 parliamentary election and successfully formed a government led by Zoran Milanović (SDP).
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 8 November 2015. All 151 seats in the Parliament were up for election. This parliamentary election was the 8th since the first multi-party election in 1990 and the first since Croatia joined the European Union in 2013. The ruling center-left Croatia is Growing coalition, led by Prime Minister Zoran Milanović, was challenged by the center-right Patriotic Coalition led by the HDZ and headed by its party chairman Tomislav Karamarko, and also faced several new political coalitions.
Since its founding in 1990, elections within the Social Democratic Party of Croatia were held numerous times.
Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 28 December 2014 and 11 January 2015, the sixth such elections since independence in 1991. Only four candidates contested the elections, the lowest number since 1997. Incumbent president Ivo Josipović, who had been elected as the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in 2009–2010, was eligible to seek reelection for a second and final five-year term and ran as an independent. As no candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round in December 2014, a run-off took place in January 2015 between the two candidates with the most votes, Josipović and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. Grabar-Kitarović went on to win the elections by a slim margin of 32,509 votes or 1.48%, making her Croatia's first female president.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 5 July 2020. They were the tenth parliamentary elections since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and elected the 151 members of the Croatian Parliament. 140 Members of Parliament were elected from geographical electoral districts in Croatia, three MPs were chosen by the Croatian diaspora and eight MPs came from the ranks of citizens registered as belonging to any of the 22 constitutionally recognized national minorities.
Presidential elections were held in Montenegro on 15 April 2018. Former Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, leader of the ruling DPS was elected as new President of Montenegro in the first round.
2014–2016 Croatian war veterans tent protest was 555 days long war veterans protest, often dubbed in Croatia as The Tenters. The protests were initially aimed against Ministry of Croatian Veterans deputy Bojan Glavašević and Minister Predrag Matić himself, however the protesters subsequently changed their demands and started demanding the resignation of centre-left Prime Minister Zoran Milanović and then President Ivo Josipović. The protests escalated in May 2015 when a group of protesters breached the riot police cordons in Zagreb Upper Town and barricaded themselves inside St. Mark Church, where they again clashed with the police. At the same time another group of protesters near the central tent blocked the traffic and brought out gas bottles on Savska street which they apparently threatened to blow if the police refused to back off from the church. After both Josipović and Milanović lost the elections in 2014 and 2015, the protests gradually calmed down and in April 2016, with the new minister taking over the Veterans Office, the tent was dismantled, formally ending the protest.
The Homeland Movement, previously known as Miroslav Škoro Homeland Movement until February 2021, is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Croatia. The DP was founded by Croatian singer, former Croatian Democratic Union MP, and 2019–20 presidential election candidate, Miroslav Škoro, on 29 February 2020.
Elections were held in Zagreb on 16 May 2021 for the 53rd mayor of Zagreb, the two deputy mayors, the 47 members of the Zagreb Assembly, the councils of districts and the local committees, as part of the 2021 Croatian local elections. The runoff for the mayor took place on 30 May 2021.
Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 29 December 2024, with a second round scheduled for 12 January 2025 after no candidate won a majority. Incumbent president Zoran Milanović is eligible for a second term. His first term began on 19 February 2020 and will end on 18 February 2025.
profesor Goran Jurišić iz Zagreba nestranački kandidat za predsjednika Republike Hrvatske, te je to ujedno i prva kandidatura, i prva objavljena kandidatura u Hrvatskoj, prije bilo koga drugog, što je VIJEST, te Vam je stavljamo na raspolaganje, uključujući link na YouTube-kanal JurišićaZaPredsjednika, gdje je ista objavljena 3. siječnja 2019. godine.