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.
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.
Zoran Milanović is a Croatian politician 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 president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) 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.
Ivo Josipović is a Croatian academic,jurist,composer,and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2010 to 2015.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 17 April 2024 to elect the members of the 11th Sabor. Prior to the elections,the government consisted of a coalition of the Croatian Democratic Union and Independent Democratic Serb Party,with parliamentary support of five national minority MPs,two MPs from the Croatian Social Liberal Party and Croatian Demochristian Party,and one independent MP,Silvano Hrelja.
Sanja MusićMilanović is a Croatian scientist and a professor at the Medical School of the University of Zagreb. She is the wife of Zoran Milanović,the fifth President of Croatia and former Prime Minister.
Zagreb protest was a political protest organized in Zagreb,Croatia,on 17 February 2024 by a coalition of 11 left-wing,liberal opposition parties against the government of Andrej Plenkovićand the Croatian Democratic Union. The protest was held under the name "Enough! Let's go to the elections!".
