Croatian Social Democrats

Last updated
Croatian Social Democrats
Leader Ivica Pančić
Founded2004 [1]
Headquarters Zagreb
Ideology Social democracy
Anti-globalization [2]
Website
www.hsd.com.hr

Croatian Social Democrats (Croatian : Hrvatski socijaldemokrati), abbreviated HSD, is a minor left-wing Croatian political party.[ citation needed ] It came into existence in 2004 as a splinter party of the much more influential Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP).[ citation needed ]

Contents

As of 2011 HSD never won any seats in the general elections. Its only MP was Ivica Pančić who was elected to two consecutive terms in 2003 and 2007 on the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) ticket. While in office he resigned his SDP membership in January 2010 and spent eight months serving as an independent until joining HSD in September 2010. [3]

History

For the 2007 election, HDS made an alliance with Left of Croatia, Socialist Labour Party of Croatia and Istrian Socialdemocratic Forum. [4] The alliance got 9,884 votes. [5]

In August 2010 former SDP member of parliament and minister of war veterans in the Račan government Ivica Pančić announced he was "taking over" the Party. [6] He left SDP after supporting Milan Bandić, another SDP dissident in the presidential elections in January 2010. [7] With Pančić joining, HSD became a parliamentary party. [8]

Electoral history

ElectionIn coalition withVotes won

(coalition totals)

PercentageSeats wonChange
2007 SRP-LH-ISDF 9,8840.66
0 / 151
Steady2.svg

Related Research Articles

Ivica Račan Croatian politician (1944–2007)

Ivica Račan was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments.

Social Democratic Party of Croatia Croatian political party

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, Croatian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, which had governed Croatia within the Yugoslav federation since World War II.

The Istrian Democratic Assembly is a centre to centre-left, regionalist, liberal political party in Croatia primarily operating in Istria County.

Croatian Social Liberal Party Croatian political party

The Croatian Social Liberal Party is a conservative-liberal political party in Croatia. The HSLS was formed in 1989 as the first Croatian political party formed after the reintroduction of multi-party system.

Croatian Peoples Party – Liberal Democrats Croatian liberal political party

The Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats is a social-liberal political party in Croatia.

Anto Kovačević was a Croatian philosopher, publicist and politician.

2007 Croatian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 25 November 2007 and for overseas voters on 24 and 25 November. The campaign officially started on 3 November. The President of Croatia announced elections on 17 October and 14 days were allowed for candidate lists to be submitted.

Željka Antunović Croatian politician

Željka Antunović is a Croatian former politician who served as acting president of the Social Democratic Party between April and June 2007, and as Minister of Defence from 2002 until 2003 in the second cabinet of Ivica Račan. She was the first and to date only female holder of the office.

Ljubo Jurčić Croatian economist and politician

Ljubo Jurčić is a Croatian economist, current president of the Croatian Association of Economists since 2006 and former Minister of Economy from 2002 to 2003.

The Left of Croatia is a marginal leftist Croatian political party with no parliamentary representation.

Ivo Josipović Third President of Croatia

Ivo Josipović is a Croatian jurist, composer and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2010 to 2015.

2011 Croatian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on Sunday, 4 December 2011 to elect 151 members to the Croatian Parliament. They were the sixth parliamentary election in Croatia since independence.

Croatian Labourists – Labour Party Political party in Croatia

The Croatian Labourists – Labour Party is a social-democratic and democratic socialist political party in Croatia.

Davor Bernardić Croatian politician and physicist

Davor Bernardić is a Croatian physicist and politician who served as the president of the Social Democratic Party from 2016 to 2020. He also served as one of four SDP vice-presidents, leader of the SDP's Zagreb branch, and president of the SDP Youth Forum. Bernardić has been elected to the Croatian Parliament five times, representing the 1st electoral district.

Milanka Opačić Croatian politician

Milanka Opačić is a Croatian politician who served as a Minister of Social Welfare and Youth at centre-left Cabinet of Zoran Milanović from 2011 to 2016. She served as one of four vice-presidents of the Social Democratic Party, the main centre-left political party in the Sabor. She was first elected to Sabor in the 1992 parliamentary election, and was reelected in 2000, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2016.

Restart Coalition Centre-left political alliance in Croatia

The Restart Coalition is a centre-left political alliance in Croatia. The coalition was 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).

2015 Croatian parliamentary election

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.

Milorad Pupovac Croatian politician and linguist

Milorad Pupovac is a Croatian politician and linguist. He is a member of the Sabor, the former president of the Serb National Council, and the president of the Independent Democratic Serb Party. He was also an observer at the European Parliament.

The Croatian Left has consisted of a broad range of individuals, groups, and political parties who seek egalitarian, economic, social and cultural rights in Croatia. Left wing ideologies came to Croatia in the late 19th century during the Austria-Hungary regime. In 1894, the Social Democratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia was formed. It was the first workers party in Croatia at the time. In the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes the leftist movement grew but it was suppressed by the royal government. In 1920, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was proclaimed illegal and its sympathizers were brutally persecuted after winning a large number of positions in the local elections. During the 1920s, Stjepan Radić and his Croatian Peasant Party led a centre-left agrarianism and anty-royalist policy. They were the leading Croatian political party at the time. After the assassination of Radić in 1929, the Croatian Peasant Party was taken over by Vlatko Maček who enforced a more conservative and nationalist rhetoric. During the Socialist Yugoslavia era, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia was the only legal party in the country. In 1990, political plurality was restored and a number of left-wing parties emerged with the most notable one being the Social Democratic Party of Croatia.

Ingrid Antičević-Marinović Croatian lawyer and politician

Ingrid Antičević-Marinović is a Croatian lawyer and former politician who serves as justice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia since 7 June 2016. She had previously served as a 9th Minister of Justice, Public Administration and Local Self-government in the center-left Cabinet of Ivica Račan II from 2001 to 2003. She was the first woman to serve as Justice Minister in Croatia as well as first woman lawyer in Zadar's history.

References

  1. ↑ STR: Iskaznica
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-18. Retrieved 2007-10-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Pančić: Ponudit ćemo pravu ljevicu umjesto dosadašnje lažne".
  4. ↑ Martina Zeković (14 May 2007). "Stvorena koalicija ISDF-a i Ljevice Hrvatske" [An ISDF and Croatian Left coalition is formed] (in Croatian). Nacional (weekly). Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  5. ↑ "IZBORI 2007". Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
  6. ↑ "Pančić: Ponudit ćemo pravu ljevicu umjesto dosadašnje lažne".
  7. ↑ "Pančić bez Bandića osniva stranku: Do proljeća ćemo imati od 500 do 1.000 članova". Index.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  8. ↑ "Hrvatski sabor - Ivica Pančić". Archived from the original on 2010-08-05. Retrieved 2010-09-23.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.