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Croatian parliamentary election, 2015

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All 151 seats to Hrvatski sabor
76 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
TurnoutTBD
 
Leader Zoran Milanović Tomislav Karamarko
Party Kukuriku HDZ
Leader since 2 June 2007 21 May 2012
Last election 81 seats 47 seats
Current seats 73 42
Seats needed Increase 3 Increase 34

 
Leader Dragan Vulin Mirela Holy
Party HDSSB Croatian Sustainable Development
Leader since 8 October 2015 28 October 2013
Last election 7 seats New party
Current seats 7 3
Seats needed Increase 69 Increase 73

Incumbent Prime Minister

Zoran Milanović
SDP



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The 2015 Croatian parliamentary election will be held on or before 22 November 2015, as they must take place on a Sunday, with three possible dates: 8, 15, 22 November 2015. The current session of Parliament dissolved on September 28, 2015. All 151 seats in the Parliament will be up for election. These parliamentary elections will be 8th since the 1990 first multi-party election.

The ruling center-left Croatia is growing coalition, until 2015 known as the Kukuriku coalition, led by Prime Minister Zoran Milanović, will be challenged by the center-right coalition led by HDZ and headed by its party chairman Tomislav Karamarko and will also face several new political parties.

Background

The 2011 general election was held on 4 December 2011 and resulted in the victory of the center-left Kukuriku coalition led by the Social Democratic Party and supported by the Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats, Croatian Party of Pensioners and the Istrian Democratic Assembly. The largest opposition party is the center-right Croatian Democratic Union. Other smaller opposition parties are the Croatian Labourists – Labour Party and the Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja.

Electoral system

Elections will be held in 10 electoral districts inside Croatia each with a roughly equal number of registered voters and 14 seats, supplemented by one electoral district for Croatian citizens living abroad (3 seats), and one electoral district for national minorities (8 seats). Parties or alliances have to pass a 5% threshold in an electoral district in order to get seats, which are then distributed proportionally between all lists passing the threshold using D'Hondt. Candidates are selected using the most open list system for candidates getting at least 10% of the party's votes. Candidates receiving less will be chosen according to their ranking on the list.

Electoral law amendments

In February 2015 the Croatian parliament voted to amend the country's election rules by introducing a number of changes, most importantly introducing an element of preferential voting by letting candidate selection function as a most open list system for candidates receiving a minimum of 10%, while keeping list ranking for those that do not meet this quota. In addition there were several other changes, including a gender quota and a ban on convicted criminals running. The proposal came from the ruling Social Democratic Party as well as several other minor changes. The opposition left Parliament and did not participate in the voting process. However, on 25 September 2015 the Constitutional Court of Croatia ruled that most of the changes to the electoral law were unconstitutional, including a ban on convicted criminals running for office, an electoral list quota of 40% candidates of each gender and an obligation to collect 1,500 signatures for a political party to run in a electoral district. This left the new method of candidate selection as the only change.

Political parties

Main article: List of political parties in Croatia
Name Abbr. Ideology Leader Sabor 2011 Sabor Current
style="background-color: Template:Social Democratic Party of Croatia/meta/color" | Social Democratic Party of Croatia
Socijaldemokratska partija Hrvatske
SDP Centre-left, Social democracy Zoran Milanović 61 55
style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" | Croatian Democratic Union
Hrvatska demokratska zajednica
HDZ Centre-right, Christian democracy, Social conservatism Tomislav Karamarko 44 42
style="background-color: Template:Croatian People's Party/meta/color" | Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats
Hrvatska narodna stranka - liberalni demokrati
HNS Centre, Liberalism, Economic liberalism, Progressivism Vesna Pusić 14 11
style="background-color: Template:Croatian Labourists - Labour Party/meta/color" | Croatian Labourists - Labour Party
Hrvatski laburisti - stranka rada
Labour Labor rights, Left-wing populism Nansi Tireli 6 3
style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja/meta/color" | Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja
Hrvatski demokratski savez Slavonije i Baranje
HDSSB Slavonian regionalism, Conservativism, Right-wing populism Dragan Vulin 6 7
style="background-color: Template:Istrian Democratic Assembly/meta/color" | Istrian Democratic Assembly
Istarski demokratski sabor
IDS Istrian regionalism, social liberalism Boris Miletić 3 2
style="background-color: Template:Croatian Party of Pensioners/meta/color" | Croatian Party of Pensioners
Hrvatska stranka umirovljenika
HSU Single-issue politics (pensioner's rights) Silvano Hrelja 3 4
style="background-color: Template:Independent Democratic Serb Party/meta/color" | Independent Democratic Serb Party
Samostalna demokratska srpska stranka
SDSS Serb minority politics, Social democracy Vojislav Stanimirović 3 3
style="background-color: Template:Croatian Citizen Party/meta/color" | Croatian Citizen Party
Hrvatska građanska stranka
HGS Right-wing populism Željko Kerum 2 2
style="background-color: Template:Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević/meta/color" | Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević
Hrvatska stranka prava dr. Ante Starčević
HSP AS National conservatism, Right-wing populism Ivan Tepeš 1 1
style="background-color: Template:Democratic Centre (Croatia)/meta/color" | Democratic Centre
Demokratski centar
DC Liberal conservatism Vesna Škare-Ožbolt 1 1
style="background-color: Template:Croatian Peasant Party/meta/color" | Croatian Peasant Party
Hrvatska seljačka stranka
HSS Agrarianism, Center-right, Christian democracy, Social conservatism Branko Hrg 1 1
Istrian democrats
Istarski demokrati
ID-DI Istrian Damir Kajin Did not exist 1
Sustainable Development of Croatia
Održivi razvoj Hrvatske
ORaH Sustainable development, Environmentalism, Progressivism Mirela Holy Did not exist 3
Bosniak Democratic Party of Croatia
Bošnjačka demokratska stranka Hrvatske
BDSH Bosniak minority politics Nedžad Hodžić 1 1
Human Blockade
Živi zid
Živi zid Populism, Anti-establishment, Euroscepticism Ivan Pernar 0 0
People's Party - Reformists
Narodna stranka - Reformisti
Reformisti Centre, Economic liberalism Radimir Čačić Did not exist 3
New wave- Party of Development
Novi val-Stranka razvoja
Novi val Ljubo Jurčić Did not exist 1
Milan Bandić 365 - The Party of Labour and Solidarity
Milan Bandić 365 - stranka rada i solidarnosti
Milan Bandić 365 Centre, Populism Milan Bandić Did not exist 0
Forward Croatia! - Progressive Alliance
Naprijed Hrvatska! - Progresivni savez
Naprijed Hrvatska! Center-left, Progressivism Ivo Josipović Did not exist 0
Bridge of Independent Lists
Most nezavisnih lista
Most Center-right, Social conservativism, Economic liberalism Božo Petrov Did not exist 0
Workers' Front
Radnička fronta
Radnička fronta Far-left, Democratic socialism collective leadership Did not exist 0
Croatian Conservative Party
Hrvatska konzervativna stranka
Konzervativci Right-wing, National conservatism, Economic liberalism Ruža Tomašić Did not exist 0

Coalitions

Coalition/Party Total seats
rowspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party of Croatia/meta/color" | bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party of Croatia/meta/color"| Croatia is Growing bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party of Croatia/meta/color"| 74
Social Democratic Party of Croatia 56
Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats 11
Croatian Party of Pensioners 4
Croatian Labourists - Labour Party 3
Authentic Croatian Peasant Party 0
Zagorje Party 0
rowspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" | bgcolor="Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" | Patriotic Coalition bgcolor="Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" | 44
Croatian Democratic Union 42
Croatian Peasant Party 1
Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević 1
Croatian Social Liberal Party 0
Bloc Pensioners Together 0
Croatian Conservative Party 0
Democratic Party of Zagorje 0
Hrast 0
Successful Croatia 4
People's Party - Reformists 3
Forward Croatia! - Progressive Alliance 1
rowspan="10" bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| Others bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| 21
Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja 7
Independent Democratic Serb Party 3
Sustainable Development of Croatia 3
Croatian Citizen Party 2
Istrian Democratic Assembly 2
Bosniak Democratic Party of Croatia 1
Democratic Centre 1
Istrian Democrats 1
New Wave - Party of Development 1

Opinion polls

Main article: Opinion polling for the next Croatian parliamentary election
15-day average trend line of poll results from December 2011 to the present day, with each line corresponding to a political party.


References

  1. http://www.telegram.hr/politika-kriminal/vecernji-list-pise-da-ce-izbori-biti-najkasnije-15-studenoga-ove-godine/
  2. http://www.vecernji.hr/hrvatska/sjednica-sabora-zavrsava-u-petak-a-sabor-se-formalno-raspusta-28-rujna-1026710
  3. http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/croatia-is-patriotically-growing
  4. "Croatian parliament backs changes to electoral law". europeanvoice.com. 2015-02-26. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  5. http://www.sdp.hr/media/303876/statut-sdp.pdf
  6. http://www.sabor.hr/Default.aspx?sec=5131
  7. http://hdz.hr/static/media/attached_files/attachedfileitem/Statut/STATUT_HDZ-a_2012.pdf
  8. http://hns.hr/index.php/dokumenti/2012-04-20-01-45-30/programske-smjernice
  9. http://hns.hr/index.php/dokumenti/2012-04-20-01-45-30/statut
  10. http://www.sabor.hr/istarski-demokrati
  11. http://www.sabor.hr/Default.aspx?sec=5142
  12. http://reformisti.hr/dokumenti/program
  13. http://www.sabor.hr/novi-val-stranka-razvoja
  14. "Zbogom 'Kukuriku', rođena je nova koalicija - Hrvatska raste". www.dnevnik.hr. 2015-09-08. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
  15. "Domoljubna koalicija". Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  16. "Domoljubna koalicija u Vukovaru potpisala koalicijski sporazum". www.dnevnik.hr. 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
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