A survey published on Wednesday, conducted by a polling agency Ipsos puls, using secret voting by 4,200 people in all ten 14-seat constituencies, predicts that the People’s Coalition will win 55 seats and the HDZ 53 seats.
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The conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won the most seats in Sunday’s general election, but fell short of an absolute majority in parliament.
Croatia found itself in a odd situation in mid-June: The center-right government led by the technocrat Tihomir Oreskovic was overthrown by a vote of no-confidence that had originated in the coalition.
“We are happy”, Plenkovic said upon casting his ballot.
But it still needs to look for the alliance with small parties or representatives of minorities, who has eight reserved seats, to secure an enough majority for forming a new government.
“HDZ has a bigger coalition potential”, said former parliamentary Speaker Zeljko Rajner, describing his party as “a relative victor of this election”.
The HDZ, which led the country through its first turbulent years of independence and war after the break-up of Yugoslavia 25 years ago, will face a fight from the SDP, whose leader Zoran Milanovic still held out hope of forming a government.
The ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, scored a victory in the early parliamentary vote on Sunday and now faces a tough task of forming a coalition government after disillusioned voters again failed to produce a clear victor.
Yet, supporters of the conservative Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, celebrated as their party received more votes than expected.
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Nearly a year of political deadlock has impeded urgently-needed economic reforms, with the economy relying heavily on tourism along the Adriatic coast.
Less than a week before the vote Serbia jailed an alleged Croatian spy for three years in jail.
Croatia has among the weakest economies in the EU.
Morana, who is a 27-year-old teacher from Zagreb, said she would support SDP.
The central bank has forecast growth of 2.3 percent this year. However, unemployment hovers around 14 percent – among the highest in the European Union – and much of the fiscal growth is attributed to tourism along Croatia’s Adriatic coast.
“I think we have succeeded in introducing a new culture of communication and dialogue in this campaign, bringing the content back to politics, basing the campaign on the program”.
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Swing voters might be more swayed by Zivi zid (Living Wall), a youthful anarchist-solidarity party that sees itself as the voice of the disenfranchised.
