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2013 European Parliament Election In Croatia
European Parliament elections were held in Croatia for the first time on 14 April 2013 to elect twelve Member of the European Parliament, Members of the European Parliament. The members served the remainder of the Parliament's 2009–2014 term after Croatia entered the European Union on 1 July 2013. The country formed Croatia (European Parliament constituency), a single constituency, with members elected by proportional representation using open lists. Despite opinion polling predicting a decisive victory of the governing centre left Social Democratic Party of Croatia, SDP-led coalition, the centre right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ-led coalition won a razor-thin Plurality (voting), plurality of the vote. The turnout of just 20.8% was the lowest turnout in a national election in modern Croatian history. The Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ has won every EU election since, As of 2024. Parties Opinion polls Results Elected lists and candidates See also *List of membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubravka Šuica
Dubravka Šuica (; ; born 20 May 1957) is a Croatian politician of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) who was Vice-President of the European Commission and the Commissioner for Democracy and Demography from 2019 to 2024. She previously served as a member of the European Parliament from 2013 to 2019. Since December 2024 she serves as the European Commissioner for Mediterranean in the Von der Leyen Commission II. She served two consecutive terms as mayor of Dubrovnik between 2001 and 2009. She was the first female mayor of Dubrovnik and one of the first female mayors of major Croatian cities in modern Croatia. She served as a member of the Croatian Parliament in three terms from 2001 to 2011. Since 2004, she has been elected five times in a row as vice-president of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. In October 2012, she was elected vice-president of the EPP Women's association and in June 2019 vice-president of the EPP's EU par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plurality (voting)
A plurality vote (in North American English) or relative majority (in British English) describes the circumstance when a party, candidate, or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast. For example, if from 100 votes that were cast, 45 were for ''candidate A'', 30 were for ''candidate B'' and 25 were for ''candidate C'', then ''candidate A'' received a plurality of votes but not a majority. In some election contests, the winning candidate or proposition may need only a plurality, depending on the rules of the organization holding the vote. Versus majority In international institutional law, a ''simple majority'' (also a ''plurality'') is the largest number of votes cast (disregarding abstentions) ''among'' alternatives, always true when only two are in the competition. In some circles, a majority means more than half of the total including abstentions. However, in many jurisdictions, a simple majority is defined as more vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Labour Party
The Croatian Workers Party () was a minor Croatian party without political representation. The Party had about 400 members. It was founded in 1999 in Samobor. On 2007 parliamentary elections it was a part of the coalition led by Social Democratic Action of Croatia. In the 2014 European Parliament election The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 22 and 25 May 2014. It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties field ..., the party received 0.35% of the vote. Electoral history Legislative European Parliament References 1999 establishments in Croatia Labour parties Political parties established in 1999 Political parties in Croatia {{Croatia-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Pure Party Of Rights
Croatian Pure Party of Rights ( or HČSP) is a far-right political party in Croatia founded in 1992. The party claims to be an ideological descendant of the identically named right-wing Serbophobic historical party which was active in the early 20th century and which advocated the right to self-determination for Croatia at the time when it was part of Austria-Hungary and Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In the 2011 Croatian parliamentary election, a coalition consisting of Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević and Croatian Pure Party of Rights won one parliamentary seat, held by Ruža Tomašić from HSP-AS. History The original HČSP was founded in 1904 by the Kvaternik and other factions of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), calling on the tradition of one of the ''Frankovci'', a historical right-wing fraction movement of the Party of Rights from late 19th and early 20th century. Like most right-wing parties in Croatia, the HČSP claim a legacy descending from Ante Starče ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Growth
Croatian Growth (, acronym ''Hrast'' is a Croatian word for Oak tree) or Hrast-Movement for Successful Croatia was a political party in Croatia established in 2012. Its founding was initiated by several conservative Catholic NGOs, Croatian section of Radio Maria, Croatian Republican Union, Family Party, Christian Democrat politician Ante Ledić, author Hrvoje Hitrec and two candidates in 2010 Presidential elections in Croatia, historian Josip Jurčević and Miroslav Tuđman, son of first Croatian president Franjo Tuđman. The party maintains contacts with European Christian Political Party. In the 2013 European Parliament election, Croatian Growth received 2,55% of votes, which was not enough to gain a seat. The party participated in the Patriotic Coalition at the 2015 Croatian parliamentary election. In that election, it became possible for candidates to receive preferential votes, and the candidates of Hrast won a total of 8,800 (out of a coalition total of 771,070) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Centre (Croatia)
The Democratic Centre (; DC) was a minor Croatian center-right political party active in the 2000s. Originally established as an offshoot of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in 2000, the party eventually merged back into HDZ in 2015. History The party was formed in April 2000 by former Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) senior government officials Mate Granić and Vesna Škare-Ožbolt. They both left the conservative HDZ after the party's decisive defeat in the January 2000 election, and Mate Granić's defeat in the February 2000 presidential race. The 2000 defeat, which came in the aftermath of the death of the party's longtime leader Franjo Tuđman, ousted HDZ after nearly a decade of being in power. In the ensuing internal power struggles, a number of factions, ranging from hard-line nationalists to center-right moderates, left to form their own parties. Granić, former foreign minister, and Škare-Ožbolt, a jurist, were among the more prominent moderates. When the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authentic Croatian Party Of Rights
The Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights ( or A-HSP) is a far-right, socially conservative political party in Croatia, founded in Koprivnica in 2005, after the merging of Croatian Rightists and Croatian Right Movement. The goal of the Movement is to unite all "rightist" parties in Croatia such as the HSP, the HSP 1861, the HČSP and others. It was very critical of the HSP's political positions until 2009. A-HSP is pro-life and advocates against gay marriage as well as in support of motherhood, children and youth, people of special needs, and the nature. It is strongly against Croatian accession to EU and NATO and advocates for irredentism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bay of Kotor, Syrmia, and Bačka. The party changed its name from United Supporters of the Croatian Party of Rights Movement to Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights in 2009. In 2010, the A-HSP publicly burned a copy of the Serb minority publication '' Novosti'', whose headquarters had to be protected by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authentic Croatian Peasant Party
The Autochthonous Croatian Peasant Party () is a centre-right political party in Croatia. History The Autochthonous Croatian Peasant Party was founded in Zagreb on 14 March 2007. First party president was Jasenko Stipac. The party refers to the tradition of Stjepan Radić's HPSS. According to the Party's statute, "it is in particular committed to the promotion of the interests of farmers, workers, and intelligence of the Croatian nation". Party's values are "honesty, faith, family, patriotism and labor." Ahead of the 2015 parliamentary election the party joined the ruling centre to centre-left Kukuriku coalition led by the Social Democratic Party of Croatia The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (, SDP) is a Social democracy, social democratic political party in Croatia. The SDP is Anti-fascism, anti-fascist, Progressivism, progressive, and strongly Pro-Europeanism, pro-European. The SDP was forme .... Electoral results General elections European Parliament Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only Croatia – Movement For Croatia
Only Croatia – Movement for Croatia () is a defunct political party in Croatia, formed in 2007. The party was established by disaffected founding members of the HDZ, the Croatian Bloc (which extinguished itself the following year), and by a group of Croatian generals, including Marinko Krešić and Ljubo Ćesić Rojs, who were deeply worried about perceived foreign economic and political threats to the Croatian State. The party opposes foreign ownership of strategic Croatian resources and real-estate, including the media and key industries. Likewise, the party is against Croatian membership of NATO and especially the European Union. Only Croatia does not recognise the current borders of the Republic of Croatia, delineated by the Communists in 1943 and imposed in 1945, as being either its historic or natural borders. In the 2007 Croatian parliamentary election, the party competed but won no seats in Sabor. Their best showing was in the 6th electoral district An electo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Key Of Croatia
The Key of Croatia () was a populist political party in Croatia. Until the party changed its name on 21 May 2022, it was known as Human Shield (, ) and was formed out of an anti-eviction group of the same name. The group opposed foreclosures by occupying property and forming a " human shield", hence the name. The party was founded on 2 June 2011 as the Alliance for Change (). and operated under that name until it became Human Shield in 2014 ahead of the 2014–15 presidential election, supporting the candidacy of Ivan Vilibor Sinčić. The party refused to be characterized as being left or right and claimed adherence to humanist values. On February 3, 2024, the party merged with the Let's Change Croatia party and the independent list of Mislav Kolakušić into the Law and Justice. The party's previous president, Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, became the vice president of the newly formed option. Ideology and principles The party has been described as having "praised the writings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Democratic Party
Women's Democratic Party ( or DSŽ) was a women's rights political organization founded in Zagreb Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ... in 2004. Party aims to represent the interests and concerns of women. The party allows male members. Sources * Political parties established in 2004 Political parties in Croatia 2004 establishments in Croatia Feminist parties in Europe {{Croatia-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Action Of Croatia
Social Democratic Action of Croatia ( or ASH) was a Croatian left-wing political party. It was founded by 1994 by members of Social Democratic Party of Croatia dissatisfied with the centrist policies of SDP leader Ivica Račan and his lack of criticism towards Franjo Tuđman. The party had high hopes of gathering support beyond disenchanted SDP voters after Croatian Spring leader Miko Tripalo left Croatian People's Party in order to join them. In 1994, they tried to force an all-left party coalition in Croatia for the upcoming elections. The idea was rejected by Ivica Račan and SDP so they failed to realise it. In the 1995 parliamentary election most of left-wing voters opted for SDP while ASH managed to get only one seat ( Milorad Pupovac, 5th special district). Alongside the party presidents, ASH had prominent members such as Vjeran Zuppa (prominent left-wing intellectual and dramaturge) and Tomislav Jakić (former journalist, TV reporter and advisor to president Stjep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
