MCC Votes & Seats Podcast – Election insight

2024 Croatian legislative election – a tactical step before the European voting?

Mathias Corvinus Collegium Season 4 Episode 4

In mid-March 2024, the MPs unanimously voted for the dissolution of the Sabor, the Croatian parliament upon the initiative of the governing parties. Following the decision welcomed and widely supported by the left-wing opposition, president Zoran Milanović called for an early election on 17 April 2024, well ahead of the EP election in June and the legislative election scheduled later this year. In our new Votes & Seats podcast episode, Szabolcs Janik (Centre for Political Science, MCC) had the chance to discuss the political background and results of the early election with professor Višeslav Raos from the University of Zagreb.

In our newest election podcast, you can get a genuine insight into the logic of party competition, key campaign issues (such as economic challenges, European issues or emigration) and party positions, voter attitudes, all these embedded in the context of the coming European voting. Moreover, we also had the opportunity to discuss the future chances of the new HDZ-Homeland Movement coalition, announced on 8 May 2024.

With the help of guest experts and politicians, in the podcast series of MCC’s Centre for Political Science we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary and municipal elections taking place this year in different European countries and what exactly can be considered a real victory after the ballot counts.