Croatian parliamentary election, 2015
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The 2015 Croatian parliamentary election will be held on 8 November 2015.[2] 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,[3] until 2015 known as the Kukuriku coalition, led by Prime Minister Zoran Milanović, will be challenged by the center-right Patriotic Coalition led by HDZ and headed by its party chairman Tomislav Karamarko and will also face several new political parties.
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Background[edit]
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.
The previous 7th Assembly of the Croatian Parliament was dissolved on 28 September 2015, with the President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović subsequently being tasked with scheduling the elections on a Sunday within 60 days of the dissolution.[4]
Electoral system[edit]
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[edit]
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.[5] 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[edit]
Coalitions[edit]
Opinion polls[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^ http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/kolinda-objavila-na-izbore-izlazimo-8-studenog/846227.aspx
- ^ http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/croatia-is-patriotically-growing
- ^ "Predsjednica idući tjedan objavljuje datum izbora". www.vecernji.hr. 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
- ^ "Croatian parliament backs changes to electoral law". europeanvoice.com. 2015-02-26. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
- ^ http://www.sdp.hr/media/303876/statut-sdp.pdf
- ^ http://www.sabor.hr/Default.aspx?sec=5131
- ^ http://hdz.hr/static/media/attached_files/attachedfileitem/Statut/STATUT_HDZ-a_2012.pdf
- ^ http://hns.hr/index.php/dokumenti/2012-04-20-01-45-30/programske-smjernice
- ^ http://hns.hr/index.php/dokumenti/2012-04-20-01-45-30/statut
- ^ http://www.sabor.hr/istarski-demokrati
- ^ http://www.sabor.hr/Default.aspx?sec=5142
- ^ http://reformisti.hr/dokumenti/program
- ^ http://www.sabor.hr/novi-val-stranka-razvoja
- ^ "Zbogom 'Kukuriku', rođena je nova koalicija - Hrvatska raste". www.dnevnik.hr. 2015-09-08. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
- ^ "Domoljubna koalicija". Retrieved 2015-10-03.
- ^ "Domoljubna koalicija u Vukovaru potpisala koalicijski sporazum". www.dnevnik.hr. 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
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