The nation’s capital Zagreb was hit by big anti-government protests final month.
The Croatian parliament was dissolved on Thursday to pave the way in which for a parliamentary election later this yr, with 143 out of 151 lawmakers backing the choice.
Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has advised the election could possibly be held earlier than the vote for the European Parliament, which takes locations on June 6-9, however no date has but been set.
The choice to dissolve parliament comes as Plenkovic and his conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) celebration are going through mounting accusations of high-level corruption from the opposition forward of the poll.
Final month, 1000’s of protesters rallied in Croatia’s capital to protest in opposition to the federal government and demand that this yr’s parliamentary election be held as quickly as doable.
The prime minister has denied any wrongdoing.
Plenkovic and HDZ are anticipated to be challenged by a gaggle of centre and left-leaning events who’ve already introduced they are going to run in a coalition. The prime minister’s celebration has held energy since Croatia gained independence from the previous Yugoslavia in 1991.
Croatia can also be scheduled to carry a presidential election as nicely by the top of the yr.
The nation, a nation of some 3.8 million folks which was the most recent to hitch the European Union, stays one of many poorest economies within the bloc, surviving largely on tourism alongside its Adriatic Sea shoreline.
