Croatian Parliament

After the singing of the national anthem, the opposition already started disrupting the session, and they got up from their seats and started blowing whistles and showing banners.
The new convocation of the parliament will be constituted by the confirmation of at least two thirds of the parliamentary mandates.

"When you put someone on the list who is engaged, and who has dealt with both some social issues and kind of activism, it's one thing; it's another when you put [on the lists] people who are just celebrities," she said.

Singers find their political voice in Croatia

The Croatian parliament was dissolved on Monday on the proposal last week of six parliamentary clubs of the ruling majority, led by the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union HDZ, whose ratings have risen in the coronavirus epidemic.

Uncertainty

Few European countries have seen the same levels of combined economic and political turmoil as Greece over the last decade. Thankfully, Greece seems to be coming out of the turbulent years, but as it does so, will its economy be able to accelerate forward or remain stuck in limbo?

A socially conservative civic initiative in Croatia, "The People Decide", which is campaigning for changes to Croatian election law, on Wednesday submitted its request for a referendum, "For a fairer electoral system", to the Croatian parliament. 

The Croatian parliament on Wednesday will support the establishment of a special investigative committee tasked with revealing what happened to fallen private company Agrokor and its commercial group.

The Croatian parliament's committee on information, computerisation and the media on Thursday called for the removal of the supervisory board of the public broadcaster Croatian Radio Television, HRT, after the board last week again warned of possible corruption inside the broadcaster.

With the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, losing potential partners for forming a new governing majority in the Croatian parliament, new general elections seem to be a realistic scenario in the coming months, an analyst told BIRN.

A key representative of ethnic minority communities in the Croatian parliament is insisting that Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic must distance himself from hardliners if he wishes to remain in power.

The HDZ's wafer-thin new majority in the Croatian parliament - 76 out of 151 MPs in total - is likely to be just a temporary strategy employed by the party to push through legislation, with new elections likely to follow, veteran political Zarko Puhovski analyst told BIRN.