2007 Croatian parliamentary election

none August 2021 Croatia 2003 25 November 2007 2011 ← outgoing members elected members → All 153 seats in the Croatian Parliament 77 59.48% ( 2.17pp) Croatian Democratic Union Ivo Sanader 66 66 36.62 Social Democratic Party of Croatia Zoran Milanović 34 56 31.33 Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats Vesna Pusić 10 7 6.79 HSS–HSLS coalition Josip Friščić 14 8 6.53 HSU–DSU Vladimir Jordan 3 1 4.08 Croatian Party of Rights Anto Đapić 8 1 3.50 Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja Branimir Glavaš New 3 1.80 Istrian Democratic Assembly Ivan Jakovčić 4 3 1.54 Minority lists Independent Democratic Serb Party Vojislav Stanimirović 62.56 3 3 Alliance of Hungarian Associations Deneš Šoja 47.83 0 1 MRUH Nafiz Memedi 12.76 New 1 Party of Democratic Action of Croatia Šemso Tanković 30.85 1 1 Independents – – 1 2 2007 Croatian parliamentary election map.svg Result by constituency Prime Minister Ivo Sanader Croatian Democratic Union Ivo Sanader Croatian Democratic Union Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 25 November 2007 and for overseas voters on 24 and 25 November.hr President announces elections https://archive.today/20070618061028/http://www.net.hr/vijesti/page/2007/10/17/0001006.html 18 June 2007 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. Elections were held in 10 electoral districts inside Croatia (each providing 14 members of parliament),hr Law defining electorates one electoral district for Croatian citizens living abroad (with a maximum 12 members of parliament), and one electoral district for national minorities (8 members of parliament). Candidate lists have to win more than 5% of the votes in at least one electoral district in order to be represented in the parliament. 4,478,386 people in total were eligible to vote, 405,092 of whom are in the diaspora, 280,000 living in Bosnia-Herzegovina.hr Središnji državni ured za upravu: Pravo glasa na parlamentarnim izborima ostvaruje 4 478 386 birača https://web.archive.org/web/20110721103121/http://www.uprava.hr/?A=NOVOSTI&GRUPA=1&SIF=230 21 July 2011 hr Večernji list: Četiri milijuna građana na izborima https://web.archive.org/web/20071127144113/http://www.vecernji.hr/newsroom/news/croatia/2960714/index.do 27 November 2007 To prevent possible electoral fraud, such as votes from the deceased, or people voting twice in different locations, the Croatians outside Croatia who were eligible to vote had to register no later than 14 days before the election. In three locales, the election were repeated on 9 December 2007; while this could not and did not change the final result as far as mandates are concerned, it meant the final result became known only on 11 December 2007.http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=101522 javno.com: "Official Electoral Results on Dec 11 At Earliest" 27 November 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20080202130201/http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=101522 2 February 2008 dead dmy-all The governing centre-right Croatian Democratic Union emerged as the relative winner of the election, but failed to obtain an outright majority. The opposition centre-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia achieved their best result ever as a party, but were unsuccessful in their attempt to become the strongest single party. The election resulted in the formation of the Sanader II cabinet supported by HDZ, HSS, HSLS and the representatives of national minorities. Participating parties Croatian political parties and independent lists had to formally submit their candidates and eventual pre-election coalitions not later than 30 October. 3585 people from political parties or independent lists applied for the elections (22 people per seat). There were 235 political party lists, 16 independent lists and 72 candidates for minority seats. 29.93% of the candidates were women. The average age of the candidates was 43.41 years old; 44.70 for men, and 40.40 for women. The oldest candidate was 89, and the youngest 18. The State Electoral Committee had to confirm the lists before midnight of 2 November.hr News about electoral lists on Net.hrhr Announcement regarding electoral lists https://web.archive.org/web/20071127083829/http://www.izbori.hr/izbori/izbori07.nsf/WPD/6B5BA39517E72D20C12573780020B2FF/$File/Priopcenje_o_listama.pdf 27 November 2007 Parliamentary parties and coalitions Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Social Democratic Party (SDP) Croatian Peasant Party–Croatian Social Liberal Party-Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar-Democratic Party of Zagorje-Zagorje Party) (HSS-HSLS-PGS-ZDS-ZS) Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS) Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) Croatian Party of Right (HSP) Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja (HDSSB) Croatian Party of Pensioners (coalition with Democratic Party of Pensioners) (HSU) Democratic Centre-Green Party – Green Alternative (DC-Zeleni) Independent Democratic Serb Party (national minorities electorate and 9th electorate) (SDSS) Political parties and lists of national minorities (12th electorate) Parliamentary parties are with bolded acronyms. http://www.izbori.hr/izbori/izbori07.nsf/FI?OpenForm IZBORI 2007 2 November 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20120502085913/http://www.izbori.hr/izbori/izbori07.nsf/fi?openform 2 May 2012 dead Non-parliamentary parties Croatian Youth Party (HSM) Croatian Democratic Peasants' Party (HDSS) Croatian Pure Party of Right (HČSP) Croatian Christian Democratic Union (HKDU) Croatian Christian Democrats (Demokršćani) United Supporters of the Croatian Party of Right Movement (HP-HPP) Green List of Croatia (Zelena lista) Only Croatia – Movement for Croatia (Jedino Hrvatska) Non-parliamentary coalitions "Left Coalition": Left of Croatia-Socialist Labour Party of Croatia-Istrian Social Democratic Forum-Croatian Socialdemocrats (Ljevica-SRP-ISDF-HSD) "United Left": Social Democratic Action of Croatia-Croatian Labour Party-Green Party-Adriatic Social Democratic Party of Croatia. In some electorates also with Women's Democratic Party. (ASH-HRS-ZS-JSD-DSŽ) Croatian Christian Democratic Party–Christian Social Union (HKSS-KSU) Democratic Union of Međimurje–Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party–Dalmatian Liberal Party (in some electorates with Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar) (DSM-SBHS-DLS-PGS) Greens of Croatia-Women's Democratic Party (Zeleni HR-DSŽ) Party of Pensioners-Istrian Social Democratic Independent Party (SU-ISDNS) Independent Lists Slaven Letica Boris Mikšić Hrvoje Hitrechr hina.hr on Hitrec's list https://web.archive.org/web/20110721100325/http://websrv2.hina.hr/hina/web/article-izbori07.action?id=20071019:NEWS-HA190657:1:hrv&c=izbori07 2011-07-21 Ivan Lončar Drago Krpina Tonči Tadić Jerko Ivanković Lijanović Distribution of minority seats Serbs: 3 Hungarians: 1 Italians: 1 Czechs and Slovaks: 1 Austrians, Bulgarians, Germans, Poles, Romani, Romanians, Rusyns, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians, Vlachs and Jews: 1 Albanians, Bosniaks, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Slovenes: 1 Announced boycotts Marginal right wing Croatian Party of Right 1861 decided not to participate in the 2007 elections as they claimed the elections were unconstitutional.Following parliamentary elections 25 November 2007 in the Croatia will be unconstitutional not free and undemocratically Election spending On 11 December 2007 GONG and Transparency International Croatia had published media spending of all Croatian political parties during the election period. This numbers are : Croatian Democratic Union 25,476,833 HRK or 51.9% of total Social Democratic Party of Croatia 8,150,728 HRK or 16.6% of total Croatian Peasant Party-Croatian Social Liberal Party 4,923,277 HRK or 10.0% of total Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats 4,204,998 HRK or 8.6% of total Croatian Party of Right 3,082,071 HRK or 6.1% of total Istrian Democratic Assembly 611,406 HRK or 1.2% of total Croatian Party of Pensioners 520,362 HRK or 1.1% of total Only Croatia – Movement for Croatia 348,686 HRK or 0.7% of total Democratic Centre 329,151 HRK or 0.7 of total Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja 283,212 HRK or 0.6% of total Electoral districts thumb|right|The 10 districts, with the two non-geographical ones Since 1999 Croatia has been divided into 10 geographically-based electorates with around 250 000 - 300 000 registered voters. Each electorate elects up to 14 MPs chosen by the standard D'Hondt formula. In the 11th electorate, up to 12 members are chosen by proportional representation - depending on a number of voters in Croatia - to represent Croatian citizens residing abroad (known as the diaspora electorate) and 8 members from ethnic/national minorities. In Croatia, the official threshold is 5% for parties and coalitions. However, since the country is divided in 10 voting districts with 14 elected representatives each, sometimes the threshold can be higher, depending on the number of "fallen lists" (lists that don't get at least 5%). If many votes are lost in this manner, a list that gets barely more than 5% will still get a seat, whereas if there is a small number of parties that all pass the threshold, the actual ("natural") threshold is close to 7.15%. This system is greatly favorable to regional parties, i.e. parties that gain their votes in a single electorate (see IDS, HDSSB), and it is disfavorable to parties that have greater numbers but are widespread throughout the nation (see HSU and HSP). This made also the forming of post-electoral coalitions somewhat unpredictable, as the overall success of one of the greatest parties can effectively turn out to be counterproductive if it is achieved at the expense of their foreseeable partner, causing them to not pass the threshold in some or all electorates (it happened to the HDZ-led coalition in previous 2003 election).December 2012 Opinion polls DatePolling Organisation/ClientSample sizeHDZSDPHNS-LDHSSHSPHSLSHSUOtherUndecidedLead11/2007Puls1,30032.5%33.4%5.9%6.6%3.8%(HSS-HSLS)4.8%0.9%11/2007Media Metar1,30033.9%36.2%6.8%5.4%5.2%(HSS-HSLS)5.7%2.3%11/2007CRO Demoskop1,30028.5%31.2%5.2%5.5%4.6%(HSS-HSLS)6.2%2.7%10/2007Puls1,30028.7%30.9%5.1%5.6%5.0%(HSS-HSLS)5.9%2.2%10/2007CRO Demoskop1,30026.4%30.1%5.8%7.3%6.4%(HSS-HSLS)6.0%3.7%9/2007Puls1,30026.5%31.6%5.3%5.9%6.9%(HSS-HSLS)6.5%5.1%9/2007CRO Demoskop1,30025.6%29.2%5.6%7.8%6.8%(HSS-HSLS)5.6%3.6%8/2007Puls1,30024%29%5%9%8%(HSS-HSLS)8%5.0%7/2007Puls1,30025.5%30.1%5.8%6.8%7.6%(HSS-HSLS)6.4%4.6%6/2007Puls1,30023.2%30.0%6.3%5.1%9.0%(HSS-HSLS)6.9%6.8%5/2007Puls1,30024.5%28.7%8.5%6.4%7.3%(HSS-HSLS)6.5%4.2%4/2007Puls1,30023.1%20.4%9.1%10.4%8.5%(HSS-HSLS)7.6%2.7%3/2007Puls1,30022.8%18.8%10.4%7.7%6.6%3.8%7.6%4.0%2/2007Puls1,30023.4%19.5%9%9.6%8.8%4.2%6.3%3.9%12/2006Puls1,30021%16%9%10%8%5%6%5.0%12/2006CRO Demoskop1,30023.9%24.3%8.6%6.4%8.2%3.5%5.2%13.7%0.4%10/2006CRO Demoskop1,30026.1%25.7%8.6%5.9%8.0%4.5%5.1%10.4%0.4%9/2006CRO Demoskop1,30026.4%25.5%7.9%5.8%8.1%4.1%5.0%11.3%0.9%8/2006CRO Demoskop1,30026.3%25.2%8.1%5.7%8.1%4.0%5.1%11.1%1.1%7/2006CRO Demoskop1,30026.2%25.3%8.1%5.2%8.2%3.9%4.8%12.4%0.9%6/2006CRO Demoskop1,30026.2%26.1%7.6%5.4%8.2%3.9%5.1%11.7%0.1%5/2006CRO Demoskop1,30025.0%26.7%6.9%5.4%8.0%3.7%4.8%13.4%1.7%4/2006CRO Demoskop1,30025.2%27.5%7.3%4.3%8.0%3.5%4.1%13.5%2.3%3/2006CRO Demoskop1,30025.8%26.5%6.7%5.6%8.5%4.6%5.1%12.5%0.7%2/2006CRO Demoskop1,30026.4%25.5%7.4%5.7%9.3%4.6%3.9%11.8%0.9%1/2006CRO Demoskop1,30024.1%26.3%7.2%5.4%10.4%3.5%4.0%14.2%2.2%12/2005Puls1,00019.4%22.2%5.7%9.7%14.2%4.5%7.9%2.8%12/2005CRO Demoskop1,30021.6%26.9%6.6%5.2%12.2%2.9%4.1%14.1%5.3%11/2005CRO Demoskop1,30024.9%26.8%7%4.7%11%2.6%3.7%13.4%1.9%10/2005CRO Demoskop1,30025.5%25.1%7.3%5.1%11.7%2%3.7%12.1%0.4%9/2005Mediana fides1,00626.9%34.1% - -12.7% - -7.2%9/2005Puls20.0%22.0%7.0%8.0%13.0%4.0%10.0%2.0%9/2005CRO Demoskop1,30024.4%25.6%8.1%4.7%11.6%2.2%3.6%12.1%1.2%8/2005CRO Demoskop1,30024.8%25.4%8%5.1%10.9%2.8%3.1%12.2%0.6%7/2005CRO Demoskop1,30025.4%25.3%7.3%5.2%10.8%2.4%3.2%11.8%0.1%6/2005CRO Demoskop1,30025.3%24.8%6.8%6.5%10.8%2.1%3.6%13%0.5%5/2005CRO Demoskop1,30025.3%25%7.3%6.2%10.8%2.5%3.5%10.7%0.3%4/2005Mediana -13.8%19.8%3.4%2.5%7% - - 6.0%4/2005CRO Demoskop1,30026.2%26%8.2%5.6%9.3%2.4%2.1%13.7%0.2%3/2005CRO Demoskop1,30027.1%26.8%8.7%4.9%9.7%2.1%2.1%13.4%0.3%2/2005Večernji list1,30024.6%26.7%9.8% -8.3% - -3.1%2/2005CRO Demoskop1,30027.7%27.4%9.9%5.6%8%2.4%1.5%12.2%0.3%1/2005CRO Demoskop1,30027.1%25.8%9.3%6.6%8.1%3%1.2%14.4%1.3%12/2004CRO Demoskop1,30027.4%25%10.3%4,8%7.1%4.2%1.2%14.1%2.4%11/2004Večernji list1,30022.8%22.4% - - - - -0.4%11/2004CRO Demoskop1,30028.2%24.2%9.6%5.1%8.2%2.8%2%13,9%4.0%10/2004Večernji list1,30027.0%18.9% - - - - -7.1%7/2004Promocija plus1,30033.3%23.2%10.5%4.2%3.0%7.32.1%10.1%6/2004Promocija plus1,30031.8%22.8% - - - - -9.0%3/2004Promocija plus1,30032.9%21.6%8.5%3.3%6.5%1.5%3.8%11.3%2/2004Promocija plus1,30031.9%18.9%10.5%4.2%4.4% -4.4%13.0%23 Nov2003 parliamentary election2,478,96733.9%22.6%8.0%7.2%6.4%4.0%4.0%N/A11.3% Results right|thumb|Results by municipalityCroatian Democratic Union HDZSocial Democratic Party of Croatia SDPCroatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats HNS–LDCroatian Peasant Party HSS–HSLS–PGS–ZDS–ZSIstrian Democratic Assembly IDSIndependent Democratic Serb Party SDSSCroatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja HDSSBCroatian Party of Rights HSP thumb|right|Croatian Democratic Union result thumb|right|Social Democratic Party result thumb|right|HSS–HSLS result thumb|right|Croatian People's Party result Most opinion polls in the days before the election predicted a very tight race between the governing Croatian Democratic Union and the opposition Social Democratic Party of Croatia. On the night of the election, after all the polls around the country closed, all major television networks released the results of the exit polls. All of them showed the social democrats with a slight lead.hr Izlazne ankete: SDP u blagoj prednosti pred HDZ-om None of the exit polls, however, took into account the votes coming from the citizens living abroad, which tend to vote for the more conservative option. The first official results published at 9 p.m. showed HDZ with a slight lead.hr https://archive.today/20130217154602/http://www.24sata.hr/news/najnoviji-rezultati-dip-a-sdp-56-hdz--66-mandata-/38652/ HDZ pobijedio Ivo Sanader gave a victory speech close to midnight saying he will be forming the next government. Despite the election loss, SDP individually as a party achieved its best result ever, even better than the 2000 election result when SDP led a victorious coalition. Most smaller parties lost seats, the Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats lost 4 seats from the 2003 election, the Croatian Peasant Party also lost 4 seats and the far-right Croatian Party of Rights suffered its worst election results since the 1990s losing 7 seats and winning only 1.December 2012 National minorities elected 8 representatives through a separate election system: Milorad Pupovac (25,3% of votes), Vojislav Stanimirović (21,5%) and Ratko Gajica (15,8%) for the Serb national minority, Deneš Šoja (47,8%) for the Hungarian minority, Furio Radin (88,8%) for the Italian minority, Zdenka Čuhnil (26%) for the Czech and Slovak minorities, Nazif Memedi (12,8%) for the Austrian, Bulgarian, German, Jewish, Polish, Roma, Romanian, Rusyn, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vlach minorities and Šemso Tanković (30,9%) for the Albanian, Bosniak, Macedonian, Montenegrin and Slovene minorities. Croatian Democratic Union 907743 66 Social Democratic Party 776690 56 Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats 168440 7 HSS–HSLS–ZS–ZDS–PGS 161814 8 HSU–DSU 101091 1 Croatian Party of Rights 86865 1 Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja 44552 3 Istrian Democratic Assembly 38267 3 Democratic Centre–Greens 21929 0 SU–ISDNS 21882 0 Croatian Youth Party 16247 0 Only Croatia – Movement for Croatia 15902 0 Women's Democratic Party–Greens of Croatia 10099 0 LJEVICA–SRP–HSD–ISDF 9855 0 red Independent Democratic Serb Party 9115 0 Croatian Pure Party of Rights 8943 0 Authentic Croatian Peasant Party 7847 0 ASH–JSD–DSŽ–ZS–HRS 7354 0 Green List 5972 0 Youth Action 5096 0 HKDS–KSU 3370 0 Alphabet of Democracy 2905 0 Croatian Rights–Croatian Rights Movement 2697 0 PGS–SBHS–MDS–DLS 1896 0 Economic Party 1784 0 Democratic Party of the Slavonian Plain 1626 0 Croatian Christian Democratic Union 1575 0 Croatian Democratic Peasant Party 1553 0 Croatian Party of the Unemployed 1132 0 Croatian Christian Democratic Party 1104 0 Croatian European Party 767 0 Croatian Assembly 588 0 Green Alternative–Consumer Party 505 0 Croatian Demochristians 417 0 Homeland Civic Party 390 0 My Little Međimurje 346 0 Rule of Law Alliance 294 0 Croatian Veterans' Party 286 0 Independents 30106 0 National minorities 8 36627 4229681 State Election CommitteeState Election Committee http://www.izbori.hr/2007Sabor/rezultati/rezultati_izbora_sluzbeni.pdf hr Službeni rezultati izbora za zastupnike u hrvatski Sabor 22 December 2007 Official results of elections of representatives to the Croatian Parliament 8 November 2011 5 October 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111005012744/http://www.izbori.hr/2007Sabor/rezultati/rezultati_izbora_sluzbeni.pdf dead Turnout thumb|Election turnout for each electoral district DistrictIIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXXITotalTotal voters361,236399,648366,005335,091372,163356,575403,812385,594426,199416,017404,9504,227,290Votes cast243,980254,571249,111211,839216,335224,986264,795240,250259,018264,19390,4822,519,560Valid votes243,480254,269249,041211,426215,937224,554264,232239,987258,593263,37290,4022,515,293Turnout67.4%63.6%68.0%63.1%58.0%63.0%65.4%62.2%60.7%63.3%22.3%59.5%Source:December 2012 By electoral district DistrictIIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXHDZ31.03%31.83%23.85%31.20%42.75%34.23%35.14%21.16%52.09%44.54%SDP42.07%33.33%30.79%26.80%26.69%36.08%36.90%40.99%22.63%28.27%HNS6.43%4.47%25.34%4.64%4.31%5.42%5.52%5.21%3.79%4.83%HSS–HSLS4.38%16.53%9.95%4.04%5.54%8.27%6.49%2.93%3.29%5.71%HSU4.87%4.29%3.53%4.89%3.71%4.44%4.53%5.85%3.38%3.03%HSP2.40%2.93%1.67%7.98%5.19%3.44%3.25%1.81%3.43%3.49%HDSSB———15.23%6.00%—————IDS———————16.18%——Source:December 2012 Government formation Sixth assembly of the Croatian Parliament On night of the elections, after first seat projections were announced, the president of the Croatian Democratic Union announced that he spoke with the President of the Republic and that he will be forming the government.hr Sanader i Milanović 'pobjednici', Mesić odlučuje https://web.archive.org/web/20110610221103/http://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/izbori07/page/2007/11/26/0004006.html 10 June 2011 A few minutes after him, the president of the Social Democratic Party informed the public that he too spoke with president and that he too was commencing the formation of the government. President Mesić explained that his constitutional obligation was to give a mandate to form a government to a person who presents him with convincing proof that they have support of a majority of the newly elected parliament.hr iskon.hr: 'Mandat onome s dokazom o većini u Saboru' https://archive.today/20120914093801/http://www.net.hr/vijesti/izbori/page/2007/11/25/0192006.html 14 September 2012 As the president failed to announce that he will give the mandate to Ivo Sanader, leader of the party with the most seats in the parliament, he was criticised by manyhr Mesić: Na mene se vrše pritiscihr net.hr: I dalje se ne zna ni tko, ni kadahr net.hr: Zašto Mesić gubi neutralnost? for complicating the situation and starting a political crisis. President Mesić responded that he was following article 97 of the Constitution of Croatia. HDZ, together with HSUhr https://web.archive.org/web/20080202130218/http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=105285 2 February 2008 and Roma national minority member Nazif Memedihr https://web.archive.org/web/20080202130209/http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=102108 2 February 2008 had 68 of 77 seats required for a majority while SDP, HNS, IDShrElection discussions with Croatia president https://web.archive.org/web/20071213004745/http://www.vjesnik.hr/html/2007/12/01/Clanak.asp?r=unu&c=1 13 December 2007 and SDAhrSDA has signed deal with SDP https://web.archive.org/web/20080202213827/http://www.sdah.hr/vjesti_velike.aspx?ID=164 2 February 2008 together had 67 seats. Therefore, the HSS-HSLS coalition which had 8 seats was instrumental in forming a government.hr Koaliciji HSS-HSLS obećana tri ministarstva? https://web.archive.org/web/20110610221114/http://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/izbori07/page/2007/11/27/0030006.html 10 June 2011 Before the elections, leaders of the coalition stated that they will first speak with the party which wins the most seats (not counting diaspora seats). As this turned out to be HDZ, negotiations between HDZ and HSS-HSLS of a coalition started on 3 December.hr tportal.hr: 'Bilo bi lakše da smo išli na podjelu fotelja' https://web.archive.org/web/20110610221126/http://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/izbori07/page/2007/12/03/0634006.html 10 June 2011 Although HSS-HSLS started negotiating with HDZ, the president of SDP Milanović refused to give up and still claimed that SDP was also in a process of forming of a government because SDP, HNS, IDS and SDA won 150 thousand votes more than HDZ (not counting diaspora).hrdnevnik.hr: Milanović i Pusić: Imamo zastupnika više od HDZ-a https://web.archive.org/web/20071214101815/http://dnevnik.hr/bin/article.php?article_id=31508 14 December 2007 HDSSB had declared support for SDPhrHDSSB is willing to support SDP if SDP-formed government will work "in the interest of Slavonia and Baranja",hrdnevnik.hr: Šišljagić: Priklonit ćemo se onima koji zajamče razvoj Slavonije i Baranje https://web.archive.org/web/20071214050239/http://dnevnik.hr/bin/article.php?article_id=31830 14 December 2007 but Milanović stated that he firmly believed that SDP will form the government even without support from HDSSB. Although up until 25 November Ljubo Jurčić still claimed that he was SDP's candidate for premier,hrdnevnik.hr: Jurčić: 'Ja sam budući hrvatski premijer' https://web.archive.org/web/20071217210704/http://dnevnik.hr/bin/article.php?article_id=31410 17 December 2007 on 30 November Milanović announced that he was assuming responsibility for forming SDP-led government. Jurčić confirmed that he thinks that "responsibility for functioning of the government should be distributed among heads of parties and that is the best concept in this circumstances".hrdnevnik.hr: SDP maknuo Jurčića da privuče HSS-HSLS? https://web.archive.org/web/20071214050202/http://dnevnik.hr/bin/article.php?article_id=31812 14 December 2007 Heads of HSS-HSLS coalition Adlešič and Friščić declared this decision to be "very important and could influence their decision about who they will support". Adlešić added that Milanović is "much better premier candidate than Jurčić and that SDP would probably have better election results if Milanović made this decision earlier".hrdnevnik.hr: Adlešič: Promjena Milanović-Jurčić može utjecati na našu odluku https://web.archive.org/web/20071214050229/http://dnevnik.hr/bin/article.php?article_id=31825 14 December 2007 On 12 December it was announced that coalition talks between HDZ and the HSS-HSLS were close to completion and the odds of HSS-HSLS entering into discussions with SDP were announced by Božidar Pankretić as very low.http://www.javno.com/hr/hrvatska/clanak.php?id=105940 HSS-HSLS to SDP: Last hope is dying 12 December 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071213082923/http://www.javno.com/hr/hrvatska/clanak.php?id=105940 13 December 2007 dead Three days later, President Mesić held a second round of consultations with parliamentary parties and was reassured that HDZ and HSS-HSLS are finishing their negotiations. Mesić considered that a proof that Sanader had support of the majority of Sabor and handed him a mandate to form a government.hrnet.hr: Sanader sastavlja Vladu Following that announcement, Milanović again reiterated that SDP still hasn't given up on forming a government. Sanader described this behaviour as "not fitting the democratic standards" and that president would have much easier job if SDP just acknowledged their defeat. The first session of the newly elected parliament was called for 11 January 2008,BalkanInsight.com - Croatia's New Parliament Convened and on 12 January, the parliament approved Sanader's cabinet.Croatian parliament approves PM Sanader's cabinet - Boston.comMay 2026 medicmedic Government Opposition                                                                                                                                                             blue Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) green Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) yellow Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) gray Minoritiesred Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) sandybrown Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats (HNS) #9ACD32 Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) #704214 Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonija and Baranja (HDSSB) darksalmon Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU) black Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) Notes References External links 2007 electoral posters 2007 Parliamentary election in Croatia site (Official) 2007 Croatian Parliamentary election; Croatian radiotelevision site (Unofficial) 2007 Croatian Parliamentary election; Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats site (Unofficial) 2007 Parliamentary election in Croatia site (Unofficial) Croatian Parliament (Official) https://web.archive.org/web/20150924114553/http://www.sabor.hr/Default.aspx?sec=361 24 September 2015 Croatia Croatia Parliamentary Category:Parliamentary elections in Croatia Category:November 2007 elections