Ivan Vilibor Sincic

Ivan Pernar, an MP in Croatia for the populist anti-establishment Living Wall party on Thursday said the was leaving together with another MP, Branimir Bunjac. He has said he intends to start a new party.

President Grabar Kitarovic sent the law on seizure of assets to the constitutional court on Tuesday, claiming some of its provisions were unconstitutional as they do not help debtors stay in their homes.

The law was passed in 2012 and last amended in 2014 on the initiative of current government, led by the centre-left Social Democratic Party, SDP.

The election victory of the far-left Syriza party in Greece on Sunday has given an instant confidence boost to Croatian parties that say they advocate more of less the same policies.

Some spy a political hole opening up on the left, since the governing and nominally left-wing Social Democratic Party, SDP, changed itself into a typical centre-left party.

Political experts in Croatia are sifting through reasons why Ivo Josipovic and his team stumbled to defeat in the second round of the presidential elections.

Croatia's new president saluted her surprise victory in Sunday's presidential election.

Addressing her "dear Croatian men and women all over Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and around the world", she spoke of this "great night in which we have achieved a victory for our patriotic coalition and beloved homeland".

The success of a leftist outsider in the first round of Croatia's presidential elections is making waves on the political scene, a new opinion poll shows.

The poll conducted by the agency Promocija Plus shows that a new activist movement has gone from nowhere to becoming the fourth most popular party in the country.

Ahead of Sunday's election, Croatia's presidential candidates have tightened their belts in deference to the economic crisis.

The amounts of money being spent on their campaigns turn out to be markedly less than in the last presidential election.