In the recent elections, the brand new green-red coalition won a surprising amount of seats in the parliament. Of course it cannot be compared to the center-right winner HDZ or the also quite new far-right Domovinski Pokret which secured more than double their seats, but all the coalition's members (unlike the usual parliamentary rep) aren't lazy rich boomers and they seem ready to do some actual work. Their outreach is pretty good from what I've seen and they have thankfully managed to get through to the voters in the most progressive regions who usually vote for the succdems, but they are going to have to step up their game in the other 85% of the country.
The best news is their defacto leaders are Katarina Peović, the leader of the "Workers' Front" party and Tomislav Tomašević who is very likely to finally replace the capital's corrupt piece of shit mayor next year. Both of them are quite smart and charismatic so having them as the face of the left is a really good development imo. Also the WF twitter might be run by a chapo with the way they write their tweets.
Other than that, the succdem SDP has been the main opposition party to HDZ, but their leadership has been absolutely awful and they got demolished in the elections so uhh looks like they will either completely reform or slowly die of irrelevance.
All in all, despite the lack of class consciousness (ironic for an ex-yu country) and HDZ getting away with numerous corruption scandals and incompetence while still comfortably winning, the things are looking kinda hopeful considering the left has successfully capitalized on the radicalization of zoomers and the moving of the Overton window thanks to Bernie and Jezza, we've yet to see what will come of all this though.
New poll has Možemo on 11% nationally, and given the Succdems are in free fall without a leader they have a good chance of becoming the left wing party in the country! Exciting times!
Croatia:
In the recent elections, the brand new green-red coalition won a surprising amount of seats in the parliament. Of course it cannot be compared to the center-right winner HDZ or the also quite new far-right Domovinski Pokret which secured more than double their seats, but all the coalition's members (unlike the usual parliamentary rep) aren't lazy rich boomers and they seem ready to do some actual work. Their outreach is pretty good from what I've seen and they have thankfully managed to get through to the voters in the most progressive regions who usually vote for the succdems, but they are going to have to step up their game in the other 85% of the country.
The best news is their defacto leaders are Katarina Peović, the leader of the "Workers' Front" party and Tomislav Tomašević who is very likely to finally replace the capital's corrupt piece of shit mayor next year. Both of them are quite smart and charismatic so having them as the face of the left is a really good development imo. Also the WF twitter might be run by a chapo with the way they write their tweets.
Other than that, the succdem SDP has been the main opposition party to HDZ, but their leadership has been absolutely awful and they got demolished in the elections so uhh looks like they will either completely reform or slowly die of irrelevance.
All in all, despite the lack of class consciousness (ironic for an ex-yu country) and HDZ getting away with numerous corruption scandals and incompetence while still comfortably winning, the things are looking kinda hopeful considering the left has successfully capitalized on the radicalization of zoomers and the moving of the Overton window thanks to Bernie and Jezza, we've yet to see what will come of all this though.
New poll has Možemo on 11% nationally, and given the Succdems are in free fall without a leader they have a good chance of becoming the left wing party in the country! Exciting times!