Elections for Parliament are conducted in Croatia, and in another 48 countries around the world.
May 3, 8 million voters, in Croatia and abroad, get out to the polls on Sunday to elect a new Assembly of the Croatian Parliament.
Elected an mp, 151 140 in ten electoral units in Croatia, three elected by the ' diaspora ', i.e. Croatian nationals residing abroad, eight members of the national minorities.
Elections to the Council are implemented, so in Croatia, and in another 48 countries around the world. The eight are the elections for the Parliament since independence, parliamentary first on which voters can use the preferential vote, so in the list for which the vote can round off and the name of the candidate to whom they give an advantage, or which are preferred over all other candidates with that list.
The candidate who wins at least ten percent of the votes their list, will have the advantage over the other candidates, regardless of rank, which is the location on the list.
For the affection of voters struggling to political parties, coalitions, lists of independent candidates, national minorities, overall more than 2300 candidates with a list of 166, of which 161 are distinguished in the list of the party, and five are independent, 41, is the candidate of the minority.
In Croatia and abroad will open nearly seven thousand polling stations, about 100 more than four years ago.
The regular polling stations in Croatia is 6. 574, 114 abroad, those numbers should be added and special polling places where voters vote on service in the armed forces, prisoners, sailors, voters in social care institutions, etc. Abroad is quite an interest in parlamentrane elections, confirms this, and the fact that voting is actively registered more than 36000 voters, Croatian citizens without a permanent residence in Croatia, mostly in BiH (21. 600) and Germany (5. 900). In comparison, for the presidential elections is actively registered there was something over eight thousand.
members of the track and more than 13000 thousands of observers, mainly party.
The first election results, the SEC will publish on Sunday in 22 hours, a bit later than usual. Due to the preferencijskog of voting and more complex ways of fulfilling the record, voters will committees, estimated to need some more time to submit election results.
Information about the turnout, the SEC will, usually publish on Sunday on two occasions, noon and 5 pm. (Hina)