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}} Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 28 December 2014, being the 6th such elections since independence in 1991. With only four candidates taking part, this was the lowest number of competitors since the presidential election of 1997. Since no candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round, a run-off took place on 11 January 2015 between incumbent President Ivo Josipović and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. In the runoff, Josipović was defeated by Grabar-Kitarović by a slim margin of 32.509 votes, which without the diaspora vote would come down to a 1.989 vote majority for Grabar-Kitarović. This election resulted in the election of the first female president of croatia, as well as being only the second election to have featured a woman in the run-off, the other being the election of 2005. Ivan Vilibor Sinčić was the youngest candidate to date in a presidential election aged 24. The election of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović marked the first victory of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in a presidential election since the death of Franjo Tuđman in 1999, making her the first right-wing president in 15 years. The defeat of Ivo Josipović is the first time that an incumbent president was not reelected to a second five-year term, with both his predecessors Franjo Tuđman and Stjepan Mesić serving two terms. The victor's 1.114.900 votes is the lowest number of votes received by any president to date. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović was sworn in as the 4th president of Croatia on 15 February 2015. ==Background and rules== In mid-October 2014 the SDP-led government proposed adopting a new electoral law by February 2015. SDP's parliamentary speaker Josip Leko stated that the party's position in consultation with the Venice Commission was that the electoral law should not be changed within a year prior to an election. However, the new ''Law on the Election of the President of the Republic of Croatia'' was subsequently voted in by the SDP-led parliamentary majority on 24 October. The opposition Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) walked out on the vote criticizing the timing, while most of the parliament's minority representatives voted against the law due to a lack of consultation of parliamentary groups. The SDP's Peđa Grbin, head of the parliament's constitutional committee jeered the opposition: "I understand why my colleagues from HDZ are opposed, since they won't have to wait until midnight to find that they've also lost these elections" - ostensibly in reference to a part of the law which shortened the electoral silence from midnight on election day to the closing of the polls.〔 One of the more significant changes to the law involved limiting voting abroad to consular offices. This had the effect of greatly reducing the number of polling stations in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina: from 124 in the 2009-10 presidential elections to 15 in the current election. The Croatian People's Assembly, a grouping of Croat parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina, protested at the reduction. Overall the number of polling stations abroad was reduced from 250 to 90. On 20 November Croatian prime minister Zoran Milanović called presidential elections to take place on 28 December. Opinions polls in late 2014 showed the Croatian public with high disapproval ratings of the country's direction and the government: 82% and 79% respectively. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Croatian presidential election, 2014–15」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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