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Croatian Parliament Electoral Districts
The Croatian Parliament electoral districts () are the special territorial subdivision of Croatia used for Elections in Croatia#Parliamentary elections, the country's parliamentary elections. Croatia has twelve electoral districts. Ten of these are geographical districts within Croatia, each providing fourteen members of sabor, Croatian Parliament. District XI is for Croatian citizens living abroad, with three members of parliament (until 2011, it elected a maximum twelve members of parliament, depending on turnout). District XII is for national minorities, providing eight members of parliament. The first ten districts are roughly based on geography, but shaped according to the number of voters so that each district holds roughly the same number of registered voters, around 400,000. These districts therefore do not correspond to the borders of top administrative divisions within Croatia and each district contains one or more or parts of several Counties of Croatia, Croatian counti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's Administrative divisions of Croatia, primary subdivisions, with Counties of Croatia, twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Croatia, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans , and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. The Croats arrived in modern-day Croatia, then part of Illyria, Roman Illyria, in the late 6th century. By the 7th century, they had organized the territory into Duchy of Croatia, two duchies. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir of Croatia, Branimir. Tomislav of Croatia, Tomis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragutin Lesar
Dragutin Lesar (born 4 March 1956) is a retired Croatian politician. Originally a union leader in the 1980s, he joined the liberal Croatian People's Party (HNS) in 1996. As member of HNS he was elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2003 and 2007 general elections and served in the 5th and 6th Sabor. In April 2008 he resigned from HNS and continued to serve in the parliament as an independent. In April 2010 he founded the left wing Croatian Labourists – Labour Party (HL) and became their first party president. Early life Dragutin Lesar was born on 4 March 1956 in village Mačkovec near Čakovec in Socialist Republic of Croatia.Lesar, DragutinŽivotopis Dragutina Lesara Lesar.info. Retrieved 2011-10-29 He attended a primary school in Mačkovec, and later Šenkovec, where he moved in 1953. Due to poor financial situation, his secondary education is that of a commercialist, despite his wishes to attend a gymnasium in Zagreb. His father died in 1972, after an accident at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Selak Raspudić
Marija Selak Raspudić (; born 14 March 1982) is a Croatian philosopher, bioethicist and politician. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Croatian Parliament. She is married to Nino Raspudić. Life Early life and education She was born in 1982 in Zagreb. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 2007 with a degree in philosophy and Croatian language and literature. In 2009, she enrolled in the postgraduate doctoral study in philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In February 2010, she was a research assistant in the philosophy department on the project "Establishing Integrative Bioethics". In 2013, she received her doctorate degree. Her dissertation was entitled "Human Nature and the New Epoch". In 2013, she was appointed a junior researcher – senior assistant. In 2015, she was elected as assistant professor in the field of humanities, branch of ontology, and promoted to an associate profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law And Justice (Croatia)
Law and Justice () is a populist political party in Croatia. It was founded as a merger of The Key of Croatia (KLJUČ, formerly known as Human Shield), Let's Change Croatia (PH) and the Independent List of Mislav Kolakušić. The souverainist party seeks to fight against corruption, globalization, immigration and "gender ideology". It shares the name and a similar brand to that of the Polish Law and Justice party. The party's president is Mislav Kolakušić, while the leaders of former parties that merged into PiP, Ivan Vilibor Sinčić (KLJUČ) and Ivan Lovrinović (PH) are Vice Presidents. It ran in the 2024 parliamentary elections in a coalition with Homeland Movement ''Homeland Movement'' is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Yothu Yindi that was released in April 1989 on the Mushroom Records label. The album peaked at number 59 on the ARIA Chart in 1992. Background and release Following a to .... Kolakušić was elected to the Sabor. Election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mislav Kolakušić
Mislav Kolakušić (born 15 September 1969) is a Croatian lawyer and politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament for Croatia from 2 July 2019 to 16 July 2024, having been elected to the position at the 2019 election as an Independent. Previously, he served as a judge at the Zagreb Commercial Court. Early life and education Kolakušić was born in Zagreb, Croatia, where he finished elementary and high school. Kolakušić graduated law from the University of Zagreb in 1997. He passed the bar exam in 2000. Professional career Kolakušić worked as a court trainee at the Commercial Court in Zagreb and at the Municipal and County Courts in Zagreb from 1998 to 2000. From 2001 to 2005, Kolakušić worked on the working-financial department of the Administrative Court of the Republic of Croatia, and from 2005 to 2011 as a senior counsel at the same court. Since 2011, he has been a judge at the Zagreb Commercial Court. Kolakušić also served as the spokesperson of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Social Liberal Party
The Croatian Social Liberal Party ( or HSLS) is a conservative-liberal political party in Croatia. The HSLS were established in May 1989 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 ... as the first Croatian political party formed after the re-introduction of the multi-party system, at the time when SR Croatia was still part of SFR Yugoslavia. Following Croatia's independence in 1991 the subsequent rule of the conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), the HSLS were one of the dominant forces in Croatian politics, espousing a liberal and centre-left platform. The party first won elections in 2000 Croatian parliamentary election, 2000 and formed a coalition government with four other parties, including the major social-democrat party Social Democratic Party of Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Obuljen Koržinek
Nina Obuljen Koržinek (born 27 May 1970) is a Croatian violinist and political scientist serving as Minister of Culture and Media since 2016. Early life and education Nina Obuljen Koržinek was born in 1970 in Dubrovnik, in the family of Nikola Ćićo Obuljen who served as mayor of Dubrovnik from 1993 until 1997. After finishing elementary and high school in her hometown she enrolled in the University of Zagreb's Academy of Music, from which she graduated violin, and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, from which she graduated French language and comparative literature. Since 2013, she holds PhD in political science from the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb where she defended her doctoral thesis "Impact of international integration processes on the changes of scope of national cultural policies". In addition, she graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia. See also *Cabinet of Andrej Plenković *Cabin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Željko Reiner
Željko Reiner (born 28 May 1953) is a Croatian physician, politician, university professor, member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and former Minister of Health and Social Welfare who served as the 10th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament since independence and the 20th speaker overall, from December 2015 until October 2016. Early life and education Reiner was born in Zagreb on 28 May 1953. He attended a Zagreb elementary school and then the Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb. He graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1976. In 1978 he received his master's degree, and in 1982 doctorate. From 1979 to 1983 he specialized internal medicine at the Sisters of Charity Hospital and at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. He obtained his habilitation in Oklahoma City from 1984 to 1985. Career In 1986 Reiner was appointed as docent at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, and in 1988 as a professor. From 1997 he is r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Democratic Union
The Croatian Democratic Union (, , HDZ) is a major conservative, centre-right political party in Croatia. Since 2016, it has been the ruling political party in Croatia under the incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Croatia, along with the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP). It is currently the largest party in the Sabor with 55 seats. The HDZ governed Croatia from 1990 before the country gained independence from Yugoslavia until 2000 and, in coalition with junior partners, from 2003 to 2011, and since 2016. HDZ is a member of the Centrist Democrat International, International Democracy Union, and the European People's Party, and sits in the European People's Party Group in the European Parliament. HDZ is the first political party in Croatia to be convicted of corruption. History Origins The HDZ was founded on 17 June 1989 by Croatian dissidents led by former major general Franjo Tuđman. It was off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Plenković
Andrej Plenković ( ; born 8 April 1970) is a Croatian politician serving as the Prime Minister of Croatia, prime minister of Croatia since October 2016. He was previously one of eleven List of members of the European Parliament for Croatia, 2014–19, Croatian members of the European Parliament, serving from Croatia's 2013 enlargement of the European Union, accession to the European Union in 2013 until his resignation as MEP when he took office as prime minister. Plenković has also been serving as the List of chairpersons of the Croatian Democratic Union, president of the Croatian Democratic Union since 2016. Following his graduation from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb in 1993, Plenković held various bureaucratic positions in the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (Croatia), Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. After completing a postgraduate degree in 2002 (research master in international law), he serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Croatian Parliamentary Election
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. The ruling centre-right HDZ won the most seats for the fourth straight election, defeating the centre-left Rivers of Justice alliance. The right-wing populist Homeland Movement (Croatia), Homeland Movement finished third, with the left-wing and green We can! (Croatia), We can! in fourth place. The HDZ subsequently formed a right-wing coalition with the Homeland Movement and returned HDZ leader Andrej Plenković as Prime Minister for a third term. Background The pre-election period was marked by speculation about the possible date of the election, potential coalitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District I (Croatian Parliament)
Electoral district I ( ''Croatian'''':'' I. izborna jedinica) is one of twelve electoral districts of the Croatian Parliament. Boundaries Creation in 1999 Electoral district I consisted of: * Northwestern part of Zagreb County: ** cities and municipalities: Bistra, Brdovec, Dubravica, Jakovlje, Luka, Marija Gorica, Pušča, Zaprešić; * Central and Western City of Zagreb: ** city districts and streets: Voćarska, Petrova, Ribnjak, Hrvatskih narodnih vladara, Antona Bauera, Matko Laginja, Pavao Šubić, Kralj Zvonimir, Petar Krešimir IV., Knez Mislav, Eugen Kvaternik, Maksimirska naselja, Ružmarinka, Peščenica, Šestine, Mlinovi, Gračani, Markuševec, Vidovec, Remete, Bukovec, Kozjak, Maksimir, Dobri Dol, Dinko Šimunović, Mašićeva, Dotršćina, Ban Keglević, Petar Zrinski, Stjepan Radić, Kraljevac, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Tuškanac, Gornji Grad, Nova Ves, August Cesarec, Zrinjevac, Cvjetni trg, Andrija Medulić, Ante Topić Mimara, Petar Svačić, August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
