Green Alternative - Sustainable Development of Croatia Zelena alternativa - Održivi razvoj Hrvatske | |
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| President | Zorislav Antun Petrović |
| Founder | Mirela Holy |
| Founded | 29 October 2013 (2013-10-29)[1] |
| Headquarters | Zagreb,Croatia |
| Membership(2021) | 41[2] |
| Ideology | Green politics Social progressivism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Green–Left Coalition (2017–2023) |
| European affiliation | European Green Party (associate member) |
| European Parliament group | Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Colours | Olive green |
| Croatian Parliament | 0 / 151 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 11 |
| Zagreb Assembly[3] | 1 / 47 |
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Green alternative - Sustainable Development of Croatia (Croatian:Zelena alternativa -OdrživirazvojHrvatske) orORaH (Orah meaning "walnut" inCroatian) is aminorgreen[4] political party in Croatia.
The party was formed in 2013. Its leader is a formerMinister of Environmental Protection and Nature andSocial Democratic Party MPMirela Holy. She won the seat in theSabor as a member of theSocial Democratic Party which she left after some disagreements over party leadership.
In theMay 2014, the party came close to 10% of the vote and elected one MEP,Davor Škrlec, who sits withthe Greens in theEuropean Parliament. Later that year, the minor green partyGreen List merged into ORaH.
On 23 July 2015 it was announced that an independent MP Mladen Novak was joining ORaH. He was a formerCroatian Labourists – Labour Party member who left the party after it started negotiating to joinKukuriku coalition. Another former labourist MP, Zlatko Tušak, joined the party on 18 September 2015, giving ORaH a third MP ahead of the elections.
In the2015 Croatian parliamentary election, ORaH fared worse than anyopinion poll had predicted, gaining less than 2% of the vote, and no MP. It is the largest party outside of theCroatian Parliament.
In February 2016, Mirela Holy left the party "because of personal and professional reasons", stating that she wanted to have more time for lecturing on Vern Polytechnic, writing books and fashion design.[5] In April 2016, Davor Škrlec left the party because of his dissatisfaction over how the party is run, and the party's passivity towards the problems of Croatian society.[6]
At the assembly held on Sunday, November 15 2020, the members of ORaH made a decision to supplement the name of the party, which is now called the Green Alternative - Sustainable Development of Croatia. The desire was in this way to further highlight their green party orientation.[7]
| Year | Popular vote (coalition) | % of popular vote | Overall seats won | Change | Coalition | Government |
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| 2015 | 38.830 | 1.74% | 0 / 151 |  | — | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2016 | 14,788 | 0.78% | 0 / 151 | | No Selling | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2020 | 116,480 | 6.99% | 0 / 151 | | Green–Left | Extra-parliamentary |
| Election | Candidate | Party | 1st round | 2nd round | Result | ||||
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| Rank | # of overall vote | % of overall vote | Rank | # of overall vote | % of overall vote | ||||
| 2014–15 | Ivo Josipović | SDP | #1 | 687,678 | 38.46 | #2 | 1,082,436 | 49.26 | Lost |
| 2019–20 | Zoran Milanović | SDP | #1 | 562,783 | 29.55 | #1 | 1,034,170 | 52.66 | Won |
| 2024–25 | Independent[a] | #1 | 797,938 | 49.09 | #1 | 1,122,859 | 74.68 | Won | |
| Election | List leader | Coalition | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
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| Coalition | ORaH | ||||||
| 2014 | Mirela Holy | None | 86,806 | 9.42 (#3) | 1 / 11 | New | Greens/EFA |
| 2019 | Tomislav Tomašević | Green–Left | 19,313 | 1.79 (#12) | 0 / 12 |  1 | – |
| 2024 | Zorislav Antun Petrović | None | 1,636 | 0.22 (#15) | 0 / 12 | 0 | |
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