In the elections for the European Parliament on Sunday, twelve candidates were elected, including four new MEPs - Davor Ivo Stier (HDZ), Nikolina Brnjac (HDZ), Stephen Nikola Bartulica (DP) and Gordan Bosanac (Možemo!).
Six representatives were elected from the HDZ list - Andrej Plenković, Dubravka Šuica, Davor Ivo Stier, Karlo Ressler, Nikolina Brnjac and Željana Zovka. It has been known for a long time that Plenković, who is also the Croatian Prime Minister, will not go to the EU Parliament, so Sunčana Glavak, seventh from the HDZ list, who was in the previous convocation of the EU Parliament, could enter the European Parliament benches instead.
Dubravka Šuica, who has been a member of the European Commission until now, enters the second place on the HDZ's list, while Davor Ivo Stier will enter the European Parliament for the first time in third place, and Nikolina Brnjac comes in fifth.
Former HDZ MEPs Karlo Ressler and Željana Zovko are also going to Brussels.
The list of the SDP and partners won four mandates, and in Brussels, the current members of the European Parliament - Biljana Borzan, then Predrag Fred Matić and Romana Jerković Kraljić - go from it. Tonino Picula, the last on the list, enters the EU parliament based on the preferential votes he won.
From the DP list, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, who received the most votes on the list of the Homeland Movement, is going to the EU parliament for the first time.
From the party list We can! the first on the list to go to the EU parliament is Gordan Bosanac, who will also have his first mandate in Brussels.
12 candidates on 300 lists competed for 25 seats in the EU Parliament.
Source: Hina
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