Can’t wait for comments from people who know nothing about Croatian politics to start saying how pro-russian anti-nato populist won
This is the biggest percantage I’ve ever seen in a legitimate election.
Such a beautiful day!
I miss when my country had this kind of classic duel between a soc-dem and a center right candidate
Milanović is the only real opposition in Croatia, and people supported him to vote against corupted govrenment of Hdz and worst prime minister in history Andrej Plenković.
Don’t know much about their politics, but given the current context sounds good for Croatia
Ok, here is the short analysis from Croatia.
There were 8 candidates in the first round and top two advanced to the second round. One is our current president Milanović (backed by SDP, member of S&D) and challenger Primorac (backed by HDZ, member of EPP).
The vote went overwhelming in favor for Milanovic – first polling is 78 to 22 percent, so he will be the new old president.
Our president does not have much power here, prime minister is the head of government. President is commander-in-chief, controls the secret service and co-creates foreign policy.
However, talking points of the campaign were not related to presidential powers and responsibilities. There was a lot of talk about economy, inflation, etc. – nothing president can really control.
From my PoW, there are three main reasons for this result:
1. Primorac was wildy unpopular, artifical, and uncharismatic. He was a minister in the most corrupt government Croatia ever had and did some shady business to acquire some real estate. On the other side, Milanovic is quite intelligent, eloquent, and had some slam dunks with his public statements.
2. HDZ controls the government for 12 years now, and people don’t want to give them all levers of power.
3. Milanovic moved closer to the right in his first term and managed to steal part of the votes from HDZ.
What might be interesting to EU public: Milanovic was painted as pro-russian by the media and accused of receiving russian money (no proof of this so far). This is a very farfetched statement: he opposes sending Croatian troops to Ukraine in any way and iterates that we are not going to be proxy for big powers to run their wars. However, he has been quite critical of Putin and in the last public debate, he explicitly said that if Putin arrives to Croatia, he would follow the international arrest warrant and get him arrested.
Long story short, from what we saw so far, there are no dramatic changes in Croatia.
This is how every elections would look like if cleptocratic party who is btw convinced for corruption don’t rigg every parliamentary elections
So where is the right-wing populist?
Finally, some good f*cking election results
Why does the hdz candidate look so much like Assad I can’t unsee it.
Oh come on, why does Croatia get to have normal elections, where non of the candidates is planning to overthrow democracy and establish a fascist dictatorship?
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Not from Croatia, can anyone give a basic summary of the parties please.
More than anything, this election has been a big F U from the Croatian people to the criminal HDZ and everyone who supports them…looking at you Von der Leyen.
He won cuz people are tired of HDZ and its corruption.
In Croatia President doesn’t have that much power, our goverment is controled by scum HDZ and their corruption. There is nothing we can do they will continue robbing us blind, but atleast they don’t have a president, they have someone who calls out their BS.
Also Milanovic said he would arrest pootin and condems russia. But also points out that Croatia isn’t a military power and we shouldn’t go provoking others.
Also when his party the SDP was in charge and he was the prime minister, Croatia took the most steps forward in terms of joining the EU and actual economic growth for the country, but since 2016 HDZ got the power and they will never lose it, no matter how many scandals and how many times they are exposed for the thieves they are, they still win elections cuz they mobilize old people to go and vote for them also people who left Croatia vote for them as a fuck you to us living here with them, last thing we can keep from them is the presidency.
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I’m no expert but that seems pretty one sided
Can’t wait for comments from people who know nothing about Croatian politics to start saying how pro-russian anti-nato populist won
This is the biggest percantage I’ve ever seen in a legitimate election.
Such a beautiful day!
I miss when my country had this kind of classic duel between a soc-dem and a center right candidate
Milanović is the only real opposition in Croatia, and people supported him to vote against corupted govrenment of Hdz and worst prime minister in history Andrej Plenković.
Don’t know much about their politics, but given the current context sounds good for Croatia
Ok, here is the short analysis from Croatia.
There were 8 candidates in the first round and top two advanced to the second round. One is our current president Milanović (backed by SDP, member of S&D) and challenger Primorac (backed by HDZ, member of EPP).
The vote went overwhelming in favor for Milanovic – first polling is 78 to 22 percent, so he will be the new old president.
Our president does not have much power here, prime minister is the head of government. President is commander-in-chief, controls the secret service and co-creates foreign policy.
However, talking points of the campaign were not related to presidential powers and responsibilities. There was a lot of talk about economy, inflation, etc. – nothing president can really control.
From my PoW, there are three main reasons for this result:
1. Primorac was wildy unpopular, artifical, and uncharismatic. He was a minister in the most corrupt government Croatia ever had and did some shady business to acquire some real estate. On the other side, Milanovic is quite intelligent, eloquent, and had some slam dunks with his public statements.
2. HDZ controls the government for 12 years now, and people don’t want to give them all levers of power.
3. Milanovic moved closer to the right in his first term and managed to steal part of the votes from HDZ.
What might be interesting to EU public: Milanovic was painted as pro-russian by the media and accused of receiving russian money (no proof of this so far). This is a very farfetched statement: he opposes sending Croatian troops to Ukraine in any way and iterates that we are not going to be proxy for big powers to run their wars. However, he has been quite critical of Putin and in the last public debate, he explicitly said that if Putin arrives to Croatia, he would follow the international arrest warrant and get him arrested.
Long story short, from what we saw so far, there are no dramatic changes in Croatia.
This is how every elections would look like if cleptocratic party who is btw convinced for corruption don’t rigg every parliamentary elections
So where is the right-wing populist?
Finally, some good f*cking election results
Why does the hdz candidate look so much like Assad I can’t unsee it.
Oh come on, why does Croatia get to have normal elections, where non of the candidates is planning to overthrow democracy and establish a fascist dictatorship?
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Not from Croatia, can anyone give a basic summary of the parties please.
More than anything, this election has been a big F U from the Croatian people to the criminal HDZ and everyone who supports them…looking at you Von der Leyen.
He won cuz people are tired of HDZ and its corruption.
In Croatia President doesn’t have that much power, our goverment is controled by scum HDZ and their corruption. There is nothing we can do they will continue robbing us blind, but atleast they don’t have a president, they have someone who calls out their BS.
Also Milanovic said he would arrest pootin and condems russia. But also points out that Croatia isn’t a military power and we shouldn’t go provoking others.
Also when his party the SDP was in charge and he was the prime minister, Croatia took the most steps forward in terms of joining the EU and actual economic growth for the country, but since 2016 HDZ got the power and they will never lose it, no matter how many scandals and how many times they are exposed for the thieves they are, they still win elections cuz they mobilize old people to go and vote for them also people who left Croatia vote for them as a fuck you to us living here with them, last thing we can keep from them is the presidency.
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