Green alternative - Sustainable Development of Croatia ( hr, Zelena alternativa - Održivi razvoj Hrvatske) or ORaH (''Orah'' meaning "walnut" in Croatian) is a minor

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political party in Croatia.

History

The party was formed in 2013. Its leader is a former Minister of Environmental Protection and Nature and

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Mirela Holy Mirela Holy (born 15 December 1971) is a Croatian politician and a former leader of the centre-left Croatian Sustainable Development, Croatian Sustainable Development party (ORaH). She served as Croatia's Minister of Environment from 2011 until ...

. She won the seat in the

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as a member of the

which she left after some disagreements over party leadership. In the May 2014, the party came close to 10% of the vote and elected one MEP, Davor Škrlec, who sits with

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in the

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. Later that year, the minor green party Green List merged into ORaH. On 23 July 2015 it was announced that an independent MP Mladen Novak was joining ORaH. He was a former

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member who left the party after it started negotiating to join

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. Another former labourist MP, Zlatko Tušak, joined the party on 18 September 2015, giving ORaH a third MP ahead of the elections. In the

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, ORaH fared worse than any

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had predicted, gaining less than 2% of the vote, and no MP. It is the largest party outside of the

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. 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. 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. At the assembly held on Sunday, November 15, 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.

Electoral results

Croatian Parliament

European Parliament

References

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