| Date | Polling Organisation/Client | Sample size | Kukuriku coalition | HDZ coalition | Labour | HDSSB | Grubišić et al | HSS | HSP | HSLS | Other | Undecided |
|---|
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| SDP | HNS-LD | HSU | IDS | HDZ | HSP-AS | BUZ |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 23 Dec | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [48] | 968 | 34.2% | 22.6% | 9.9% | 2.4% | 3.4% | 4.1% | 2.6% | 2.3% | 4% | 15.9% |
| 26.6% | 2.7% | 3.5% | 1.4% | 19% | 1.3% | 2.3% |
| 14 Dec | Standard & Poor's downgrades the Croatian credit rating to junk status. [49] |
| 13 Dec | Interior Minister Ranko Ostojić orders an investigation over a spying scandal which involved Tomislav Karamarko ordering the tracking of the Attorney General Mladen Bajić and several prominent journalists during his tenure as Minister of the Interior. [50] |
| 4 Dec | CRO Demoskop [20] | 1,300 | 32.6% | 21.8% | 10.2% | 2.8% | 2.2% | 3% | 1.8% | 1.5% | 2.4% | 21.8% |
| 26.5% | 3.3% | 1.6% | 1.2% | 19.3% | 2.1% | 0.4% |
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| 26 Nov | Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević (HSP-AS) and Bloc Pensioners Together (BUZ) sign a coalition agreement. [51] [52] |
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| Date | Polling Organisation/Client | Sample size | Kukuriku coalition | HDZ coalition | Labour | HDSSB | Grubišić et al | HSS | HSP-AS | HSP | HSLS | BUZ | Other | Undecided |
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| |
| SDP | HNS-LD | HSU | IDS | HDZ |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 26 Nov | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [53] | 964 | 35.2% | 20.2% | 10.7% | 3.1% | 3.5% | 3.4% | | 3.3% | | | 8.6% | 12.9% |
| 29.1% | 2.2% | 3% | | 20.2% |
| 20 Nov | Former Prime Minister and leader of HDZ Ivo Sanader is sentenced to ten years in prison for taking bribes from two foreign companies in the first of three corruption trials against him. [54] |
| 19 Nov | Finance minister Slavko Linić presents the 2013 budget, announcing further, albeit less than expected cuts. [55] |
| 16 Nov | Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač, two prominent generals who fought in the Croatian War of Independence and were accused of war crimes, are found innocent by ICTY and are immediately released from prison. [56] |
| 14 Nov | Vice Premier and leader of the second largest governing party Radimir Čačić resigns on both functions after he is sentenced to 22 months in prison because of a car crash he caused, which resulted in the death of two people in Hungary. [57] |
| 4 Nov | CRO Demoskop [20] | 1,300 | 32.8% | 19.2% | 9.6% | 2.7% | 2.5% | 3.1% | 2.4% | 2% | 1.3% | (<1.5%) | 3.2% | 21.4% |
| 27.3% | 3.2% | 1.1% | 1.2% | 19.2% |
| 25 Oct | Leader of the Opposition Tomislav Karamarko comes under growing pressure from the Prime Minister, members of Parliament and the media for seeming to know the details of the investigation against members of organized crime conducted in secrecy. Meanwhile, Jutarnji list runs a developing story accusing Karamarko and Večernji list for allegedly trying to create a fake political scandal and discredit the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior. [58] |
| 23 Oct | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [59] | 967 | 35.9% | 18.1% | 10.4% | 5.1% | 3.3% | 3% | 0.8% | 2.6% | 1.7% | 2.3% | 2.5% | 14.3% |
| 29.1% | 2.7% | 2.9% | 1.2% | 18.1% |
| 20 Oct | Right-leaning Večernji list publishes a story accusing the police and Interior Minister Ranko Ostojić for illegally tracking phone listings of operatives of the Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA). Left-leaning Jutarnji list reacts with claims that intelligence operatives were tracked because they were suspected of contacts with the mafia. Two days later President Josipović and Prime Minister Milanović hold a joint press conference where they announce major changes in SOA leadership. [60] |
| 5 Oct | CRO Demoskop [37] | 1,300 | 31.6% | 19.5% | 9.5% | 2.7% | 2.3% | 2.6% | 2% | 2.1% | 1.3% | (<2%) | 6.3% | 23.3% |
| 26.7% | 3% | 0.9% | 1% | 19.5% |
| 25 Sep | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [61] | 1,000 | 32.7% | 21% | 9.7% | 3.5% | 2.7% | 4.2% | (<2%) | 3.4% | (<2%) | 2.4% | 6.0% | 14.4% |
| 28% | 1.8% | 2.9% | | 21% |
| 5 Sep | CRO Demoskop [62] | 1,300 | 30.6% | 19.2% | 8.2% | 3.0% | 2.4% | 2.7% | 2.1% | 2.0% | 1.6% | (<2%) | 7.0% | 22.7% |
| 26.6% | 4% | (<2%) | (<2%) | 19.2% |
| 25 Aug | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [63] | 1,000 | 30.5% | 20.2% | 8.1% | 3.3% | 4.2% | 3% | 3.2% | 2.8% | (<2%) | 3.1% | 8.6% | 15.2% |
| 25.8% | 2.4% | 2.3% | | 20.2% |
| 3 Aug | CRO Demoskop [20] | 1,300 | 31.5% | 18.8% | 8.2% | 3.0% | 2.4% | 2.6% | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1.8% | (<2%) | 7.8% | 20.4% |
| 27.6% | 3.9% | (<2%) | (<2%) | 18.8% |
| 20 Jul | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [64] | 1,000 | 29.4% | 22% | 7.5% | 3.2% | 3.8% | 2.7% | 2.5% | 3% | (<2%) | 2.8% | 8.6% | 13.4% |
| 27% | 2.4% | (<2%) | (<2%) | 22% |
| 6 Jul | CRO Demoskop [65] | 1,300 | 32% | 18.7% | 7.5% | 3% | 2.1% | 2.6% | 2.8% | 2.7% | 1.9% | (<2%) | 7.9% | 20.7% |
| 28.5% | 3.5% | (<2%) | (<2%) | 18.7% |
| 25 Jun | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [66] | 1,000 | 34.4% | 20.4% | 8% | 4.4% | 3% | 2% | 3.1% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.3% | 2.5% | 12% |
| 29.2% | 3.2% | (<2%) | 2% | 20.4% |
| 4 Jun | CRO Demoskop [67] [68] | 1,300 | 35.6% | 17.4% | 8.1% | 3.1% | 2.2% | 2.4% | 2.6% | 2.4% | 2% | (<2%) | 5.7% | 20.7% |
| 30.1% | 3.3% | (<2%) | (<2%) | 17.1% |
| 25 May | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [69] | 967 | 36.9% | 18.5% | 9.5% | 3.5% | 3.6% | 2.2% | 1.7% | 3.2% | 1.6% | 3.7% | 1.4% | 12.9% |
| 32.6% | 2.4% | 1.9% | | 18.5% |
| 21 May | Tomislav Karamarko wins the HDZ leadership election thus becoming the unofficial Leader of the Opposition. [70] |
| 12 May | Prime Minister Zoran Milanović wins his 3rd term as leader of the Social Democrats [71] |
| 7 May | CRO Demoskop [72] | 1,300 | 34.3% | 16.2% | 8.1% | 3.1% | 2.3% | 2.6% | 2.7% | 2.4% | 2.2% | | | |
| 30.3% | 4% | | | 16.2% |
| 26 Apr | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [73] | 1,000 | 37% | 18.5% | 7.7% | 3% | 3% | 3.3% | 2.6% | 4.1% | 2.7% | 1.9% | 1.2% | 14% |
| 30% | 2.9% | 2.7% | | 18.5% |
| 26 Mar | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [74] | 1,000 | 39.5% | 17% | 7.1% | 3.3% | 3.9% | 3.5% | 3.4% | | | | 11.4% | 11.5% |
| 32.7% | 3.9% | 2.9% | | 17% |
| 16 Apr | Croatian Democratic Union trial begins; party pleads not guilty. [75] |
| 25 Feb | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [76] | 1,000 | 39.1% | 21% | 6.1% | 2.4% | 3.5% | 2.4% | 3.6% | 3.6% | | | 10% | 10% |
| 35% | 4.1% | | | 21% |
| 13 Feb | Finance minister Slavko Linić presents the 2012 budget for the remainder of the year proposing cuts of up to 4 billion HRK. [77] |
| 28 January | Branko Hrg is elected leader of the Croatian Peasant Party [78] |
| 28 Jan | Ipsos Puls for Nova TV [79] | 1,000 | 41.9% | 20% | 6.8% | 3.3% | 3.1% | 3.2% | 2.6% | 2.5% | 1.7% | 1.3% | 2.3% | 10.6% |
| 34% | 4.5% | 1.6% | | 20% |
| 2-3 Jan | CRO Demoskop [80] [81] | 1,300 | 42.8% | 22.4% | 5.4% | 3.2% | 3.1% | 3.1% | 3.4% | 3.2% | 2.4% | 2.7% | 2.9% | 5.4% |
| 33.1% | 5.2% | 2.7% | | 19.7% |
