Jadranka Kosor is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011,having taken office following the sudden resignation of her predecessor Ivo Sanader. Kosor was the first and so far only woman to become Prime Minister of Croatia since independence.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 25 November 2007 and for overseas voters on 24 and 25 November. The campaign officially started on 3 November. The President of Croatia announced elections on 17 October and 14 days were allowed for candidate lists to be submitted.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 8 November 2015. All 151 seats in the Parliament were up for election. This parliamentary election was the 8th since the first multi-party election in 1990 and the first since Croatia joined the European Union in 2013. The ruling center-left Croatia is Growing coalition,led by Prime Minister Zoran Milanović,was challenged by the center-right Patriotic Coalition led by the HDZ and headed by its party chairman Tomislav Karamarko,and also faced several new political coalitions.
Ruža Tomašić is a Croatian politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since July 2013,having been elected to the position three times.
Biljana Borzan is a Croatian physician and politician who has been member of the European Parliament for Croatia since 1 July 2013,having been elected to the position at the 2013,2014 and 2019 elections. She is a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) and serving as the Vice President of the Socialists &Democrats in the European Parliament with the portfolio "New Economy that works for all" since 2019.
Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 28 December 2014 and 11 January 2015,the sixth such elections since independence in 1991. Only four candidates contested the elections,the lowest number since 1997. Incumbent President Ivo Josipović,who had been elected as the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in 2009–2010 but ran as an independent,was eligible to seek reelection for a second and final five-year term. As no candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round in December 2014,a run-off took place in January 2015 between the two candidates with the most votes;Josipovićand Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. Grabar-Kitarovićwent on to win the elections by a slim margin of 32,509 votes or 1.48%,making her Croatia's first female president.
Mihael Zmajlović is a Croatian economist and politician who served as a minister at Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nature at the Cabinet of Zoran Milanovićfrom 2012 until 2016,had previously served as mayor of Jastrebarsko from 2009 until 2012. He is a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia.
The Croatian Conservative Party was a conservative political party in Croatia. Last president of the party was Marijan Pavliček. It was founded on 20 November 2014.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 5 July 2020. They were the tenth parliamentary elections since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and elected the 151 members of the Croatian Parliament. 140 Members of Parliament were elected from geographical electoral districts in Croatia,three MPs were chosen by the Croatian diaspora and eight MPs came from the ranks of citizens registered as belonging to any of the 22 constitutionally recognized national minorities.
The Patriotic Coalition was a political alliance in Croatia formed in 2015. The parties signed the coalition agreement on 21 September 2015. On 2015 parliamentary election,coalition won a relative majority in 5 of the 10 constituencies in Croatia,and all 3 seats reserved for the Croatian diaspora,and thus received a total of 59 of the 151 parliamentary seats,with its main competitor center-left Croatia is Growing coalition also winning a relative majority in 5 of the 10 constituencies in Croatia,and 56 of the 151 parliamentary seats. After more than 40 days of negotiations with the Bridge of Independent Lists (MOST) and numerous twists and turns mainly due to MOST frequently changing terms,coalition achieved agreement with MOST and Milan Bandić365 - The Party of Labour and Solidarity on forming new government with Prime Minister being independent Tihomir Orešković.
Krešo Beljak is a Croatian politician who has been mayor of Samobor since 2009,and a member of the Croatian Parliament since 2016. He is also President of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) since 2016.
Anka Mrak-Taritaš is a Croatian politician and architect who has been member of the Croatian Parliament for the II electoral district since the 2016 parliamentary election,and a member of the Zagreb Assembly since 2017. Between 2012 and 2016,she was Minister of Construction and Spatial Planning in the center-left cabinet of Zoran Milanović. Mrak-Taritašis also president of the Civic Liberal Alliance party.
Silvano Hrelja is a Croatian politician who has been Leader of the Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU) since 2008 and a member of the Croatian Parliament for the VIII electoral district since 2003 having been elected in the 2003,2007,2011 and 2015 parliamentary elections.
Furio Radin is a Croatian politician who is currently serving as a Member of the Croatian Parliament for the Italian national minority,an office he has held since 7 September 1992. He has also been the Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities since 2000,and one of the Deputy Speakers of the Parliament since 9 June 2017. Radin is the longest-serving Member of Parliament in Croatian history,with a service lasting 29 years,168 days,as of 22 February 2022.
European Parliament elections were held in Croatia on 26 May 2019,electing members of the national Croatia constituency to the European Parliament. These were the third such elections in the country since its accession to the European Union in 2013.
The Green–Left Coalition is a centre-left to left-wing,green left political alliance in Croatia represented by six MPs. It is composed of the We can! - political platform,New Left,Sustainable Development of Croatia,as well some City of Zagreb localist political parties and platforms,such as Zagreb is OURS!,and For the City movements. It promotes democratic socialism,green politics,and progressivism on social issues.
We Can! –Political Platform is a left-wing,green political party in Croatia formed by local green and leftist movements and initiatives in order act on national level for European Parliament and parliament elections.
Tomislav Tomašević is a Croatian politician,activist,environmentalist and political scientist who is serving as mayor of Zagreb since 2021. He is one of the leaders of the local Zagreb is OURS! political party and the national We Can! political party. Since the 2017 Zagreb local elections,he has been a delegate in the Zagreb Assembly. He was also elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2020 election. He serves as the de facto leader of the Green–Left Coalition.
Jelena PavičićVukičević is a Croatian politician who is serving as president of the BandićMilan 365 - Labour and Solidarity Party. She assumed the position following the death of the previous party president,Milan Bandić,on 28 February 2021. PavičićVukičevićalso assumed Bandić's role of the mayor of Zagreb,which she served until the 4 June 2021,following her loss at the 2021 Zagreb mayoral elections.
The 2021 Zagreb local elections were the elections for the 53rd mayor of Zagreb,the two deputy mayors,the 47 members of the Zagreb Assembly,the councils of districts and the local committees. It was part of the Croatian local elections,which took place on 16 May 2021. The runoff for the mayor took place on 30 May 2021.
