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Vorlage:Infobox Election Vorlage:Politics of Croatia The fifth presidential elections in Croatia will take place on Sunday, December 27, 2009[1]. A second round, if the conditions for it are met, will be held on Sunday, January 10, 2010.

Background and rules

After serving two consecutive five-year terms, the incumbent president Stjepan Mesić will not be eligible to run in the 2009 election.

The elections have officially begun on 4 November, with the start of the period for the collecting of signatures needed to become an official candidate.[2] Each candidate had 12 days to collect 10,000 written signatures from citizens who are eligible to vote. After the 12 days expired, the signatures were verified and on November 18 the State Electoral Commission announced the 12 candidates that managed to collect the necessary amount of signatures. The next day the official 37-day campaign began and will last until 24 hours before Election Day, which happens to be Christmas Day, midnight.

The first round will then be held on 27 December and, if no candidate obtains 50% + 1 vote, a second round will be held on 10 January 2010.[1]

Each candidate can withdraw from the election at any time.

The campaign before the official start=

Round table discussion with the candidates. From left to right: Damir Kajin, Nadan Vidošević, Ivo Josipović, Andrija Hebrang, Vesna Pusić

Although officially the campaign started on 19 November, in reality it began as early as summer of 2009. The main political parties had not yet announced their nominees for president, although certain high-ranking politicians expressed their interest in running.

Mainstream political parties

Immediately after the 2009 local elections and Milan Bandić's landslide victory in Zagreb as a candidate of the social democrats, there was much talk of his potential candidacy for president. Before the election many influential members of SDP urged Zoran Milanović, the president of the party, to solve the 'Bandić problem'. They referred to many of his corruption and malversation allegations during his tenure as the mayor of Zagreb urging Milanović to nominate someone else.[3] However, Milanović refused and publicly supported Milan Bandić in the mayoral campaign[4] despite an open letter signed by many prominent left-wing intellectuals insulting Bandić and endorsing Josip Kregar.[5] On 20 June Milanović chose Ivo Josipović and Ljubo Jurčić as candidates for the SDP nomination. The presidency accepted the two candidates and allowed other candidates to submit, however Milan Bandić refused.[6] On 12 July a primary was held between the two social democrats and Ivo Josipović won with 64.78% of the vote from tens of thousands party members.[7] However, the 'Bandić problem' escalated in the coming months as the media continued to speculate about his potential candidacy. Bandić was traveling throughout Croatia with the press following his every step regulary asking him if he would run for the presidency. He consistently refused to comment drawing more and more media attention with his indecisiveness.[8] Finally, the drama was concluded when he officially announced his candidacy for president in a speech on 5 November at 7 AM on Sljeme criticizing Zoran Milanović and his former party for turning against him saying that he was one of the founders of SDP emphasizing that he stood with the party through the good and the bad times.[9]

The governing HDZ also saw great drama in selecting their candidate for president. Ever since late 2008, there was much speculation that prime minister Ivo Sanader would run for the presidency, although he frequently denied such speculation.[10] After the local elections, the speculation grew as no other candidates publicly hinted they would run. However, Ivo Sanader unexpectedly decided not only to not run for the presidency, but to resign as prime minister and retire from active politics altogether, announcing his decision on 1 July 2009.[11] He nominated Andrija Hebrang as the party's nominee for president, a decision that was backed by the party's presidency not to soon later.[12] Ivo Sanader wasn't the only member of the cabinet to resign as Minister of Education Dragan Primorac also announced his retirement on the very same day as the prime minister. There was much speculation that Primorac resigned as he wasn't his party's candidate for president and that he resigned so he could run as an independent. The speculation proved to be true and Primorac announced his candidacy on 9 November 2009.[13] The other member of HDZ to announce his candidacy was Nadan Vidošević, a prominent businessman. He announced his bid on 2 September and was expelled from his party soon after that.[14]

By the time the nominations period started, most major political parties nominated their candidates for president:

The major independent candidates originating in the two largest parties are:

Political party candidates were selected within party elections, or were elected by party bodies, and they are the party's sole official candidates. All parliamentary parties have a policy to support only one candidate, and if their member announces an independent nomination, he or she automatically loses their party membership. Parliamentary parties that don't candidate their member for the president, usually publicly support someone. These parties can be listed on the electoral list for the president, but sometimes their support is just a public endorsement. Regional-right wing HDSSB supported independent candidate Milan Bandić, and regional-centrist PGS supported independent Nadan Vidošević.

Independent candidates Nadan Vidošević and Dragan Primorac were expelled from HDZ for announcing their nomination.[14]. On November 5 Milan Bandić announced his nomination and was automatically expelled from SDP, losing his position as a member of party's presidency and leader of the Zagreb branch of SDP.[16]

After the election, the Constitution does not allow the President to be a member of any political party[17] so he or she must resign from membership, if there is one.

Running candidates

Out of 19 persons who submitted signatures to the State Electoral Commission, 13 of them were regular, but one of them withdrew. The following people will run for Sunday, December 27, 2009 presidential elections.

Former candidates

Candidates that withdrew

  • Veljko Džakula, the leader of a non-governmental organization Serbian Democratic Forum, entered the race[29] and became a candidate of three Serbian parties: Serbian People's Party, Democratic Party of Serbs and New Serbian Party. He submitted 10,557 signatures to the electoral commission on November 16. However, he then withdrew on November 17.
  • Denis Latin, a famous Croatian TV-journalist, announced his independent candidacy[30] on a liberal platform, but after several months he gave up.[31]
  • Božidar Vukasović announced an independent candidacy[32] running on an anti-corruption platform[33] - announced his withdrawal on 16 November.
  • Dean Golubić announced an independent candidacy[34] on a far right platform. He announced his withdrawal on 16 November.[35]
  • Alka Vuica, a popular singer and songwriter, supported by Green List of Croatia[36] - received around 8,000 signatures [37] reporting that 1485 of her votes were stolen and that she was offered to buy the rest of the missing votes.[38]

Candidates who failed to collect 10,000 signatures

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  • Stjepan Gnječ, representing the Economy Party (Gospodarska stranka) [39] submitted 33,060 blank signature forms.
  • Sead Hasanović (also known as Braco Cigan from Željko Malnar's TV-show Nightmare Stage) - independent [40] - received around 6,000 signatures.
  • Perica Jurič[41] - independent (former co-founder of HDZ[42])
  • Mladen Nakić - independent (former officer of the Ministry of Defense (odjel Hrvatskog verifikacijskog središta) and former diplomat)
  • Filip Šundov[43] - independent, chef
  • Ante Gotovac - socialite, TV personality and businessman.[44]
  • Stjepan Kravarščan submitted only one signature to the electoral commission on November 13 and failing to ensure an official candidature.[45]
  • Slobodan Midžić submitted no signatures to the electoral commission saying that he is seeks to represent a president of the SFR Yugoslavia for the election of the president of the European Union.[45] Madžić failed to nominate for 2007 parliamentary elections since his electoral list held the name of League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the party that does not exist.[46]
  • Zahir Kurbašić - was nominated by the Women's Democratic Party[47] but failed to ensure an official candidature.
  • Jurica Tucak - was the second person who came before electoral commission without signatures.[48]

General election campaign

The official campaign began on 19 November as the country's electoral commission announced the 12 candidates eligible to run. Andrija Hebrang collected more signatures than any other candidate with over 140,000, Ivo Josipović was second with just under 120,000, Milan Bandić collected around 60,000, Vesna Pusić just under 50,000, while Dragan Primorac and Nadan Vidošević each collected over 30,000 signatures.[49] At the beginning of the campaign, most polls showed Josipović with a healthy lead over his opponents.[50] Although Hebrang held the second spot in most opinion polls during the summer,[51] he fell to as low as fifth place by November.[50] He claimed opinion polls have never been kind to his party as most conservative voters refuse to participate in them and expressed conviction that come Election Day he will be the victor.[52] Despite Bandić's indecisiveness, he held second or third place in most polls during autumn.[50] After he officially announced his campaign, most political observers expected him to get a bump in the polls, however that never materialized. After announcing his candidacy he continuously dropped in the polls, but still managed to claim second or third place.[53] Nadan Vidošević led most polls during 2008 and early 2009, but never managed to take the lead after officially becoming a candidate.[54]

Josipović based his campaign on the slogan 'Justice for Croatia' and kicked off his campaign with a rally in front of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. He attacked the current Croatian government and the prime minister Jadranka Kosor for ignoring the needs of the little man and criticized her for not dealing with corruption.[55] Andrija Hebrang started the campaign with patriotic rhetoric with the slogan 'For a proud and European Croatia'.[56] He praised Jadranka Kosor and her policies, mostly criticizing Dragan Primorac and Nadan Vidošević for abandoning their party, calling them deserters and traitors of their party. He argued that he offered Primorac and Vidošević an opportunity to settle the question of who will be their party's nominee for president through a primary challenge stating that they both refused.[57]

Nadan Vidošević used his knowledge of economic issues to gain popularity during the recession. He emphasized his business success during the 1990s as well as his post as the president of the Croatian Economic Chamber (CEC).[58] However, the press continuously raised the subject of his estate and property and how was he able to amass such an enormous wealth in a short period of time.[59] He usually responded saying that everything he has he built with hard work and smart business moves.[60] On 9 December Dragan Primorac accused Vidošević of nepotism, claiming that he employed three of his nephews in the CEC and that his secretary was related to him.[61] Vidošević responded by saying he doesn't need someone who hits women teaching him moral lessons referring to allegations made to Primorac long ago which claimed he beat his former partner.[62] Primorac accused Vidošević of lying and threatened a lawsuit if he didn't apologize to him and his wife.[63] During a debate held on 10 December Primorac and Vidošević exchanged insults, Vidošević repeating his allegations and Primorac demanding an apology.[64] Finally, on 14 December Primorac announced he will be pressing charges against Vidošević claiming he caused great emotional damage to him and especially his wife.[63] Vidošević responded by saying Primorac would do anything to gain attention saying his campaign was falling apart.[63]

Milan Bandić avoided most debates saying he was a man of work, not of words.[65] Most political pundits, however, thought he was afraid of confronting the other candidates as he usually tends to perform badly in debates.[66] He based his campaign on the message that he was just one of the people, not an intellectual, but an ordinary hardworking patriot.[65] Vesna Pusić heavily emphasized her gender in the campaign claiming it was time for a woman to make it to Pantovčak.[67] Most commentators noticed she made the biggest change of image during the campaign out of all candidates claiming she lost her strict appearance of a professor becoming more accessible and open about her personal life.[68] She based her campaign on her liberal and pro-European positions as well as her foreign policy experience.[69]

The presentation of candidates on national television is customarily a contentious issue, with minor candidates complaining of lack of coverage and the major candidates complaining about dilution of campaign on fringe issues. Croatian Radiotelevision, as the public television operator, is legally obliged to give each candidate equal airtime, and they all got a half-hour interview in the late prime-time political show "Otvoreno".[70] There were three televised debates held in the first round.[71] The first was held on 20 November on HRT with 10 candidates present.[72] Andrija Hebrang and Boris Mikšić refused to attend claiming they were discriminated on all national television networks.[73] The second was held on 10 December on Nova TV hosted by Mislav Bago. Five candidates that were ahead in the polls were present, Ivo Josipović, Nadan Vidošević, Andrija Hebrang, Dragan Primorac and Vesna Pusić. Milan Bandić refused to attend.[74] The main topics were the fight against corruption, the economy and the European Union.[74] A poll conducted after the debate showed Vesna Pusić won the debate with 30% of those polled responding she did best, with Ivo Josipović coming in second with 26%. The poll also showed Ivo Josipović was the most specific in his answers with Vesna Pusić following closely. The audience considered Nadan Vidošević the most likable and Andrija Hebrang the most entertaining.[75] The final debate was once again held on HRT on 22 December and was the first and only one with all 12 candidates present. The main topics of discussion were campaign spending, corruption and the suggestion of removing political immunity.[76] There were four debates planned with the final one to be held on Nova TV on 23 December with six major candidates to be present.[77] However, the six candidates behind in the polls objected saying they were discriminated by Nova TV, particularly Josip Jurčević who threatened to sue the television station and filed a complaint against it to the country's electoral commission.[78] Finally, Nova TV canceled the scheduled debate and called for the change of Croatia's laws concerning media coverage of presidential campaigns.[79]

Expense summary

By Croatian law all presidential candidates are required to publish the amount they have raised and spent throughout the official campaign. These are only the amounts before the final week of the campaign. The rest will be delivered and published after the first round. These amounts are only for first round.

All numbers are in Croatian kunas.

Candidate (Party) Amount raised

- until December 19 (DIP)[80]

Amount spent

- until December 20 (GONG)[81]

Andrija Hebrang (HDZ) 4,703,778 1,833,881
Nadan Vidošević (I) 4,422,100 2,800,924
Milan Bandić (I) 3,865,551 5,275,338
Dragan Primorac (I) 3,787,000 4,176,064
Boris Mikšić (I) 2,928,767 31,053
Ivo Josipović (SDP) 2,866,648 1,792,131
Vesna Pusić (HNS-LD) 1,914,870 236,921
Miroslav Tuđman (I) 1,084,000 51,077
Vesna Škare Ožbolt (I) 1,035,000 121,485
Damir Kajin (IDS) 479,900 62,937
Slavko Vukšić (I) 217,000 unknown
Josip Jurčević (I) 133,000 unknown

Opinion polls

First round

Date(s) Conducted Polling Organisation/Client Ivo Josipović Milan Bandić Nadan Vidošević Andrija Hebrang Vesna Pusić Dragan Primorac Vesna Škare Ožbolt Damir Kajin Josip Jurčević Miroslav Tuđman Boris Mikšić Slavko Vukšić Undecided/none
23 Dec International Institute Ifimes 24.1% 9.8% 13.3% 7.1% 6.9% 6.6% 0.2% 1.1% 0.5% 1.5% 0.4% 0.1% 28.4%
23 Dec Puls for Večernji list and RTL Televizija 31.9% 16.8% 13.1% 8.1% 6.1% 7.9% 2.7% 3.1% 1.0% 2.7% 1.0% 0.6% 5%
22 Dec Mediana Fides for Jutarnji list 24.8% 11.9% 9.4% 6.4% 7.8% 6.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
22 Dec Puls for Nova TV 31% 17.4% 11.9% 9.3% 6.4% 7.9% 2.5% 3% 1.6% 2% 1% 0.6% 5.5%
22 Dec Totus Opiniometar 19% 9.5% 14.2% 7% 4.6% 3% 0.2% 1.4% 0.6% 1.5% 0.4% 0.2% 26.7%/11.4%
17 Dec Puls for T-portal 29.3% 12.2% 13.9% 7.6% 7.2% 10.4% 1.2% 2.7% 2.3% 2.3% 2% 1% 9.8%
17 Dec Totus Opiniometar 19.2% 6.3% 13.5% 6.8% 5.5% 3.3% 1.2% 2.2% 0.7% 0.7% 0.4% 0.2% 40%
14 Dec Puls for SDP 29.6% 11.8% 14.3% 7.1% 8.2% 10.6% 2.1% 2.3% 2.1% 2.4% 0.4% 0.2% 10%
9 Dec Puls for SDP 30.4% 13% 12% 8.7% 5.1% 9.8% 2% 4.1% 2.4% 2% 0.2% 0.1% 10%
9 Dec Promocija Plus for HDZ 30% 13% 12% 11% N/A 8% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
3 Dec CRO Demoskop and Promocija plus 26.2% 16.2% 15.3% 7.8% 7% 8.6% 1.7% 3.4% 1% 1.8% 0.4% 0.2% 10.4%
30 Nov Puls for Nova TV 25.3% 16.6% 16% 7.9% 5.8% 5.1% <5% <5% <5% <5% <5% <5% 9.5%
28 Nov Puls for Večernji list and RTL Televizija 29.2% 15.6% 13.2% 7.7% 4.8% 8.5% 2.6% 3.2% 1.5% 3.4% 0.4% 0.5% 9.4%
25 Nov Totus Opiniometar 16.1% 7.2% 13.8% 3.1% 2.5% 4.7% 0.6% 1.6% 1% 0.6% N/A N/A 33%
Start of the official campaign
19 Nov Mediana Fides for Jutarnji list 27.6% 15.4% 12.7% 8.4% 6.0% 8.1% N/A 2.2% N/A 1.2% 1.1% N/A N/A
17 Nov Puls for T-Portal 28.1% 15.8% 14.4% 12.2% 7.2% 5.2% 1.1% 1.8% 1.3% 0.8% 0.3% N/A 11.4%
17 Nov Puls for Nova TV 26.4% 15.7% 14.9% 11.6% 8.6% 6.8% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 14.5%
4 Nov CRO Demoskop 24.9% 14.5% 13.4% 9.4% 8.6% <4% <4% <4% N/A N/A N/A N/A 13.3%
4 Nov Totus Opiniometar 17.2% 9.7% 14.6% 5% 5.1% 2.2% 0.6% 1.6% 0.7% 1.1% N/A N/A 43.6%
31 Oct GfK for Jutarnji list 17.1% 15.2% 11.9% 9% 4.4% 3.9% 1.5% 3.5% N/A 0.6% 0.6% N/A 45%
31 Oct Puls for Nova TV 24.6% 17.6% 13.1% 11% 6.8% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 9.1%
28 Oct Puls for T-Portal 28.5% 13.6% 12.7% 10.7% 7.2% 4.2% 4.6% 4.3% 2.3% 1.6% N/A N/A 10.5%
18 Oct Puls for Večernji list 26.6% 11.3% 10.8% 8% 9.2% 4.4% 5.9% 5% 1.3% 0.8% 1% N/A 10.5%
18 Sep Mediana for Jutarnji list 21.1% 14.7% 15% 8.3% 11% 3.3% N/A 4.5% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
11 Sep Sinergie for SDP 26.4% 6.7% 13% 7.1% 4.4% N/A 4.2% 3.3% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
1 Sep Puls for Nova TV 32.9% N/A 12.8% 7.3% 9.7% N/A N/A 6.9% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
26 Aug Promocija plus for SDP 25% 10.5% 10.5% 12% 9.5% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 32.5%
24 Aug Hendal for Tportal 25.8% 10% 9.3% 4% 7.5% 1.3% N/A 3.3% 1.8% 2.3% 2.3% N/A 31.3%
3 Aug CRO Demoskop 22.1% N/A 14.1% 11.1% 11.8% N/A N/A 4.8% 6.3% 2% N/A N/A 15.8%

Hypothetical second round match-ups

Candidate Party 17 Nov 2009
Puls for Nova TV[82]
19 Nov 2009
Mediana Fides

for Jutarnji list[83]

28 Nov 2009
Puls for RTL Televizija
and Večernji list[84]
22 Dec 2009
Puls for Nova TV[85]
23 Dec 2009
Puls for RTL Televizija
and Večernji list[86]
  Ivo Josipović SDP 54% 47.4% 55% 53% 58.2%
  Milan Bandić Independent 42% 36.1% 35% 36% 32.2%
Candidate Party 17 Nov 2009
Puls for Nova TV[82]
19 Nov 2009
Mediana Fides

for Jutarnji list[83]

28 Nov 2009
Puls for RTL Televizija
and Večernji list[84]
22 Dec 2009
Puls for Nova TV[85]
23 Dec 2009
Puls for RTL Televizija
and Večernji list[86]
  Ivo Josipović SDP 51% 45.7% 51% 53% 53.4%
  Nadan Vidošević Independent 41% 34.2% 35% 36% 34.8%
Candidate Party 17 Nov 2009
Puls for Nova TV[82]
28 Nov 2009
Puls for RTL Televizija
and Večernji list[84]
22 Dec 2009
Puls for Nova TV[85]
23 Dec 2009
Puls for RTL Televizija
and Večernji list[86]
  Ivo Josipović SDP 63% 67% 64% 65.9%
  Andrija Hebrang HDZ 30% 22% 25% 26.6%
Candidate Party 17 Nov 2009
Puls for Nova TV[82]
19 Nov 2009
Mediana Fides

for Jutarnji list[83]

28 Nov 2009
Puls for RTL Televizija
and Večernji list[84]
  Nadan Vidošević Independent 52% 42.8% 47%
  Milan Bandić Independent 39% 21% 38%
Candidate Party 23 Dec 2009
Puls for RTL Televizija
and Večernji list[86]
  Ivo Josipović SDP 59.7%
  Dragan Primorac Independent 30.2%

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