Parliamentary elections to elect all 151 members of the Croatian Parliament were held on 23 November 2003. They were the fifth parliamentary elections to take place since the first multi-party elections in 1990. Voter turnout was 61.7%. The result was a victory for the opposition Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) which won a plurality of 66 seats,but fell short of the 76 needed to form a government. HDZ chairman Ivo Sanader was named the eighth Prime Minister of Croatia on 23 December 2003,after parliament passed a confidence motion in his government cabinet,with 88 MPs voting in favor,29 against and 14 abstaining. The ruling coalition going into the elections,consisting of the Social Democratic Party (SDP),Croatian People's Party (HNS),Croatian Peasant Party (HSS),Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and the Liberal Party (LS),did not contest the elections as a single bloc;the SDP ran with the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS),the Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and the Liberal Party,HNS ran with the Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar (PGS) and the Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party (SBHS),while HSS ran on its own.
The Croatian Parliament or the Sabor is the unicameral legislature of Croatia. Under the terms of the Croatian Constitution,the Sabor represents the people and is vested with legislative power. The Sabor is composed of 151 members elected to a four-year term on the basis of direct,universal and equal suffrage by secret ballot. Seats are allocated according to the Croatian Parliament electoral districts:140 members of the parliament are elected in multi-seat constituencies. An additional three seats are reserved for the diaspora and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina,while national minorities have eight places reserved in parliament. The Sabor is presided over by a Speaker,who is assisted by at least one deputy speaker.
The Croatian People's Party –Liberal Democrats is a social-liberal political party in Croatia.
This article gives an overview of liberalism in Croatia. Liberals became active since 1860 in Dalmatia and since 1904 in the rest of Croatia. It never became a major political party. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support,mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒denotes another party in that scheme. For inclusion in this scheme it isn't necessary so that parties labeled themselves as a liberal party.
Radimir Čačić is a Croatian politician and businessman who has been President of the People's Party –Reformists (NS-R) since the party's formation in 2014,as well as Prefect of Varaždin County from 2017 to 2021.
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.
The Croatian Labourists–Labour Party is a centre-left political party in Croatia.
In Croatia,the Opposition comprises all political parties represented in the Croatian Parliament that are not part of the Government which is supported by the parliamentary majority.
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.
Nikola Vuljanić was a Croatian politician,member of the left-wing Croatian Labour Party,and former member of the European Parliament.
People's Party –Reformists,also known just as the Reformists is a liberal political party in Croatia.
Nansi Tireli is a Croatian entrepreneur and politician who served as the 2nd president of the left-wing Croatian Labour Party and as a member of the Croatian Parliament for VIII electoral district between 2011 and 2016.
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 Radićand his Croatian Peasant Party led a centre-left agrarianism and anti-royalist policy. They were the leading Croatian political party at the time. After the assassination of Radićin 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.
Anka Mrak-Taritaš is a Croatian politician and architect who has been member of the Croatian Parliament for the II electoral district since the 2016 parliamentary election,and a member of the Zagreb Assembly since 2017. Between 2012 and 2016,she was Minister of Construction and Spatial Planning in the center-left cabinet of Zoran Milanović. Mrak-Taritašis also president of the Civic Liberal Alliance party.
European Parliament elections were held in Croatia on 26 May 2019,electing members of the national Croatia constituency to the European Parliament. These were the third such elections in the country since its accession to the European Union in 2013.
The Social Democrats is a Croatian centre-left political party founded in 2022. The party was preceded by a parliamentary group of the same name that broke away from the Social Democratic Party of Croatia in October 2021.
The Independent Platform of the North is a regionalist political party in Croatia led by Matija Posavec,the prefect of Međimurje County since 2013. Its headquarters is located in Čakovec. Initially founded as an electoral list in March 2021 prior to that year's local elections,it took on its current name in July 2023.
