Jadranka Kosor is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011,having taken office following the sudden resignation of her predecessor Ivo Sanader. Kosor was the first and so far only woman to become Prime Minister of Croatia since independence.
Croatia recognizes life partnerships for same-sex couples through the Life Partnership Act,making same-sex couples equal to married couples in almost all of its aspects. The Act also recognizes and defines unregistered same-sex relationships as informal life partners,thus making them equal to registered life partnerships after they have been cohabiting for a minimum of 3 years. Croatia first recognized same-sex couples in 2003 through a law on unregistered same-sex unions,which was later replaced by the Life Partnership Act. The Croatian Parliament passed the new law on 15 July 2014,taking effect in two stages. Following a 2013 referendum,the Constitution of Croatia has limited marriage to opposite-sex couples.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) rights in Croatia have expanded in recent years,but LGBT people may still face some legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. The status of same-sex relationships was first formally recognized in 2003 under a law dealing with unregistered cohabitations. As a result of a 2013 referendum,the Constitution of Croatia defines marriage solely as a union between a woman and man,effectively prohibiting same-sex marriage. Since the introduction of the Life Partnership Act in 2014,same-sex couples have effectively enjoyed rights equal to heterosexual married couples in almost all of its aspects. In 2022,a final court judgement allows same-sex couples to adopt children under the same conditions as everyone else. Same-sex couples in Croatia can also apply for foster care since 2020. Croatia bans all discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation,gender identity,and gender expression.
Zagreb Pride is the annual LGBTIQ+ pride march in the city of Zagreb,Croatia,which first took place in 2002,as the first successful pride march in Southeast Europe. Zagreb Pride organizers say their work was inspired by the Stonewall Riots and the Gay Liberation Front. It is self-identified as LGBTIQ+ march and therefore in 2003 changed its name from Gay Pride Zagreb into Zagreb Pride. The Pride was organized by volunteer-based and grass-roots Organizing Committee that was formed each year. A new organization founded in 2008 as a non-governmental organization Zagreb Pride that also registered the use of the name as a brand. The organization is a member of InterPride,EPOA,IGLYO,ILGA-Europe and in 2010,together with Lesbian Organization LORI and Domino,it was the founding member of Croatian first national LGBT association,Center for LGBT Equality. Pride receives funding from the City of Zagreb and a number of international human rights organizations and embassies.
Zoran Milanović is a Croatian politician serving as President of Croatia since 19 February 2020. Prior to assuming the presidency,he was prime minister from 2011 to 2016 and president of the Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2016.
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.
Ranko Ostojić is a Croatian lawyer and centre-left politician who served as the 11th Interior Minister in the Cabinet of Zoran Milanovićfrom December 2011 to January 2016.
Milanka Opačić is a Croatian politician who served as a Minister of Social Welfare and Youth at centre-left Cabinet of Zoran Milanovićfrom 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.
Opinion polling for the 2015 Croatian parliamentary election started immediately after the 2011 general election. Monthly party ratings are conducted by Ipsos Puls,Mediana and Promocija Plus.
Vlado Košić is Croatian bishop,leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sisak.
Green alternative - Sustainable Development of Croatia or ORaH is a minor green political party in Croatia.
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 but ran as an independent,was eligible to seek reelection for a second and final five-year term. 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;Josipovićand Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. Grabar-Kitarovićwent on to win the elections by a slim margin of 32,509 votes or 1.48%,making her Croatia's first female president.
Mihael Zmajlović is a Croatian economist and politician who served as a minister at Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nature at the Cabinet of Zoran Milanovićfrom 2012 until 2016,had previously served as mayor of Jastrebarsko from 2009 until 2012. He is a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia.
Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 22 December 2019. Social Democratic Party nominee Zoran Milanovićnarrowly defeated incumbent president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovićin a second round of voting.
Forward Croatia - Progressive Alliance was a centre-left political party founded by former Croatian President Ivo Josipović.
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.
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.
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 Glavaševićand Minister Predrag Matićhimself,however the protesters subsequently changed their demands and started demanding the resignation of centre-left Prime Minister Zoran Milanovićand 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 Josipovićand Milanovićlost 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 2020 Zagreb shooting,commonly referred to as the St. Mark's Square attack,occurred on 12 October 2020 in Zagreb,Croatia,when 22-year-old Danijel Bezuk approached Banski dvori,which houses the office of the Prime Minister and serves as the meeting place of the government,on St. Mark's Square and started shooting at it with an assault rifle,wounding a police officer in the process. In the aftermath,the perpetrator ran off to a nearby neighborhood and committed suicide.
Ukraine and Russia have had hostile relations since 2014 Russian occupation of Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. In February 2022,a major escalation happened after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This article concerns influence of Russo-Ukrainian conflict on Croatians and Republic of Croatia.
