Croatia parliamentary election - November 8, 2015

[BundouYMB]

Of course, there can only ever be one reason for higher turnout.

Of what other reasons can you think of in the case of Croatia, if not for the migrants passing through the country ?

I don't know, maybe the neck-and-neck 50/50 election and tons of new parties, as opposed to the forgone conclusion of last time. But nah, I'm sure its totally impossible anyone was less interested in Zoran Milanović's coronation ceremony than in the closest election in Croatian history.

I'm sure that its also totally impossible that Croatia has historically (=every election but 2011) had high turnout, and spending 2 seconds on wikipedia would make it obvious that 2011 was always a complete outlier. Oh, wait.

[BundouYMB]

I never really looked into Zivi Zid before. What exactly is their political flavor, or color ? I get that they're originally an activist movement in the estate foreclosures domain, but as a political party, all I can find in descriptions on Wiki or elsewhere are "populist eurosceptics" which... doesn't help, like, at all.

Are they more like M5S, UKIP or Enhedslisten ? All these can be described as "populist eurosceptics", but with clearly different political flavors...

They're vaguely left-y... very vaguely. Outside of the foreclosures their major issues are being (vaguely, un-specifically) against austerity and (also vaguely) against the European Union. Outside of that they strike (even more vague) left-y notes (outside of social issues, where the party is a mixed bag with no real policies) wrapped in generic non-ideological populist platitudes.

They're definitely not right-populist or anti-immigration at least, if that's what you were asking.