People's Party - Reformists

People's Party - Reformists Narodna stranka - reformisti

President	Radimir Čačić
Founder	Radimir Čačić
Founded	28 September 2014 (2014-09-28)
Split from	Croatian People's Party
Headquarters	Zagreb, Croatia
Membership	1176^[1]
Ideology	Social liberalism Regionalism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre
National affiliation	Successful Croatia
European affiliation	European Democratic Party
Colors	Purple
Sabor	1 / 151
European Parliament	0 / 11
County Prefects	0 / 21
Mayors	1 / 128
Website
reformisti.hr
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People's Party - Reformists (Croatian: Narodna stranka - Reformisti) is a liberal political party in Croatia. The civil initiative for the establishment of the party was launched by former Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS) chief Radimir Čačić and his associates Natalija Martinčević and Petar Baranović. More than two-thirds of the party members are former members of the HNS which left the party because of disagreements with its leadership over the exclusion of Radimir Čačić from the party while he was serving a prison sentence for unintentionally causing a traffic accident.

According to the parties former acting president Natalija Martinčević, about 200 members from HNS Zagreb and Varaždin branches each have left the party in order to join the People's party - Reformists.^[2]

The party's founding congress was held on September 28, 2014 in Zagreb.^[3] Radimir Čačić was unanimously elected for the first party president.^[1]

Ahead of the 2015 parliamentary election the party formed a coalition, "Successful Croatia", with the centre-left Forward Croatia-Progressive Alliance.^[4] In the 2015 election, the party won one seat in the Croatian Parliament in the III electoral district, held by Radimir Čačić. Čačić voted in favor of approving Cabinet of Tihomir Orešković.

Election history

Legislative

The following is a summary of the party's results in legislative elections for the Croatian parliament. The "total votes" and "percentage" columns include sums of votes won by pre-election coalitions NS-R had been part of.

Election	In coalition with	Votes won	Seats won	Change	Government
Election	In coalition with	(Coalition totals)	(NS-R only)		Government
2015 (August)	NS-PS, DDS, HSU-U, ZF	35.175	1 / 151	2	Opposition
2016 (September)	BM 365, NV-SR, HSS SR, BUZ		1 / 151		Government support

References

1 2 "Čačić o etici i moralu, pa podržao Ivu Josipovića - Vijesti". Index.hr. 2014-09-28. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
↑ "Narodna stranka - REFORMISTI - Statut". Reformisti.hr. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
↑ "HRT: Narodna stranka reformisti osniva se 28. rujna". Vijesti.hrt.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
↑ "Čačić i Josipović potpisali sporazum, nazvali se Uspješna Hrvatska - Večernji.hr". Vecernji.hr. Retrieved 2016-03-02.

Political parties in Croatia

Sabor

Government	Croatian Democratic Union (59) Bridge of Independent Lists (13)

Government support	Independent Democratic Serb Party (3) Croatian Christian Democratic Party (2) Croatian Social Liberal Party (1) People's Party - Reformists (1) Bandić Milan 365 - Labour and Solidarity Party (1) Croatian Growth (1) Independent (5)

Opposition	Social Democratic Party of Croatia (38) Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats (9) Croatian Peasants Party (5) Human Blockade (3) Istrian Democratic Assembly (3) Let's Change Croatia (2) Croatian Party of Pensioners (1) Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja (1) Power - Party of People's and Civic engagement (1) Alphabet of democracy (1) Independent (1)

European Parliament

Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) (4)
Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) (2)
Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS) (1)
Istrian Democratic Assembly (1)
Conservative Party (HKS) (1)
Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) (1)
Independent Davor Škrlec (1)

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