{"id":342242,"date":"2024-03-05T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/05\/croazia-elezioni-anticipate-prima-europee\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T19:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:31:21","slug":"croatia-to-hold-early-vote-before-european-elections-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/05\/croatia-to-hold-early-vote-before-european-elections-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia to hold early vote before European elections in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – In its super-election year, Croatia is racing toward the polls as early as the first semester. In addition to June’s European elections (not scheduled until June 9 in the latest country to join the EU), Croatian voters will elect a new national parliament several months ahead of the institutional timetable. “The elections for the Croatian Parliament will be held before those for the European Parliament<\/strong>,” Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi\u0107\u00a0<\/strong>announced<\/a> late yesterday afternoon (March 4), speaking to the press at the end of what he called “the last session” of the national legislative body “before its dissolution.”<\/p>\n

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Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Premier Plenkovi\u0107 provided the first timetable for early legislative elections, with\u00a0the dissolution of the Croatian\u00a0Sabor<\/em>\u00a0“by March 22”<\/strong>. According to the provisions of the national Constitution, President of the Republic\u00a0Zoran Milanovi\u0107<\/strong>\u00a0will decide the date on which to summon voters to the polls – initially scheduled for September 22 – but still\u00a0between 30 and 60 days after the dissolution of Parliament: therefore, May 21, at the latest<\/strong>, just over two weeks before the European elections. Outgoing Prime Minister Plenkovi\u0107 – President of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) – has also anticipated that he will again lead his conservative center-right party in the constituency that includes the center of the capital Zagreb.<\/p>\n

After over two weeks of protests in major cities across the country<\/a>\u00a0came the decision\u00a0to bring forward legislative elections (in the year when Croatia will also vote for a new president of the Republic in December). In addition to mounting pressure from individual professional groups over dissatisfaction with the policies of the Zagreb executive<\/strong> – from teachers to judges and doctors over salaries to journalists against changes to the Criminal Code to make it a crime to publish leaks – it was the center and left-wing parties that catalyzed the desire to “defend democracy”<\/strong>. In particular, the protests focused on the appointment of Ivan Turudi\u0107<\/strong> as prosecutor general with the green light from Croatian deputies, due to his proximity to HDZ and Plenkovi\u0107’s possible protection from corruption cases should he lose his immunity after the next election round.<\/p>\n

The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), the environmentalist left-wing Mo\u017eemo, and nine other liberal and left-wing opposition parties<\/strong> submitted a formal request for the dissolution of the Croatian Parliament and an immediate return to the polls to facilitate the emergence of a non-HZD-led government for the first time after 13 years\u00a0(Plenkovi\u0107 has been prime minister for 8). At the same time,\u00a0they excluded from the united\u00a0front right-wing parties such as the Eurosceptic conservatives of Most and the nationalists of the Patriotic Movement<\/strong> since their criticism of the outgoing government was\u00a0about not being tough enough on migration policies, for example. PM Plenkovi\u0107 – respected\u00a0at the table of 27 EU leaders but not without doubts<\/a> also on the area in which he is recognized as one of the most charismatic, the enlargement of the Union to the Western Balkans – blamed “radical left groups” for organizing the demonstrations against his government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi\u0107 announced to the press that parliament will be dissolved by March 22, and the President of the Republic, Zoran Milanovi\u0107, will have to call elections in the following 30 to 60 days. The decision comes after mounting pressure from the country’s opposition and professional groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5647,"featured_media":342163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26490,26944,26945,27128],"class_list":["post-342242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-andrej-plenkovic-en","tag-croatia-en","tag-elezioni-croazia-2024-en","tag-zoran-milanovic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342242"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343392,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342242\/revisions\/343392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}