{{Infobox political party | country = Croatia | name = Green Alternative - Sustainable Development of Croatia | native_name = Zelena alternativa - Održivi razvoj Hrvatske | colorcode = {{party color|Green Alternative – Sustainable Development of Croatia}} | logo = Održivi razvoj Hrvatske (logo).png | caption = Logo until 2020 | president = Zorislav Antun Petrović | founder = Mirela Holy | foundation = {{Start date|2013|10|29|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.orah.hr/vijesti/najave/80-aktivnosti-stranke-do-kraja-godine.html | language = hr | title = Aktivnosti stranke do kraja godine }}</ref> | headquarters = Zagreb, Croatia | membership_year = 2021 | membership = 41<ref>{{cite web|date=28 November 2022|title=Izvješće o obavljenoj financijskoj reviziji - Zelena alternativa - održivi razvoj Hrvatske za 2021. |url=https://www.revizija.hr/UserDocsImages/izvjesca-novo/Revizija%20-%202021/IZVJESCA_O_OBAVLJENIM_REVIZIJAMA/FINANCIJSKE_REVIZIJE/POLITI%C4%8CKE%20STRANKE%20I%20NEZAVISNI%20ZASTUPNICI/POJEDINA%C4%8CNA%20IZVJE%C5%A0%C4%86A/POLITI%C4%8CKE%20STRANKE/BLOK%20ZA%20HRVATSKU.pdf|work=State Audit Office|language=hr|access-date= 19 December 2022}}</ref> | ideology = Green politics<br>Social progressivism<br>Pro-Europeanism | position = Centre-left | national = Green–Left Coalition <br>{{small|(2017–2023)}} | european = European Green Party (associate member) | international = | europarl = Greens–European Free Alliance | colours = {{colorbox|{{party color|Green Alternative – Sustainable Development of Croatia}}}} Olive green | website = {{URL|https://za-orah.hr/}} | seats1_title = Croatian Parliament | seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|151|hex={{party color|Sustainable Development of Croatia}}}} | seats2_title = European Parliament | seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|11|hex={{party color|Sustainable Development of Croatia}}}} | seats3_title = Zagreb Assembly<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.skupstina.zagreb.hr/politicke-stranke-u-gradskoj-skupstini/35|title=Politicke stranke u gradskoj skupstini-Skupstina grada zagreba;|website=skupstina.zagreb.hr}}</ref> | seats3 = {{Composition bar|1|47|hex={{party color|Green Alternative – Sustainable Development of Croatia}}}} }}

'''Green alternative - Sustainable Development of Croatia''' ({{langx|hr|Zelena alternativa - '''O'''drživi '''ra'''zvoj '''H'''rvatske}}) or '''ORaH''' ({{lang|hr|Orah}} meaning "walnut" in Croatian) is a minor green<ref>{{cite web|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|date=2015|title=Croatia|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/croatia.html|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019033313/http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/croatia.html|archive-date=19 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> political party in Croatia.

==History== The party was formed in 2013. Its leader is a former Minister of Environmental Protection and Nature and Social Democratic Party MP Mirela Holy. She won the seat in the Sabor as a member of the Social Democratic Party 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 the Greens in the European Parliament. 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 Croatian Labourists – Labour Party member who left the party after it started negotiating to join Kukuriku coalition. Another former labourist MP, Zlatko Tušak, joined the party on 18 September 2015, giving ORaH a third MP ahead of the elections.

In the 2015 Croatian parliamentary election, ORaH fared worse than any opinion poll had predicted, gaining less than 2% of the vote, and no MP. It is the largest party outside of the Croatian Parliament.

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/osnivacica-oraha-mirela-holy-napustila-stranku/889051.aspx|title=Osnivačica ORaH-a Mirela Holy napustila stranku|work=index.hr|access-date=13 October 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/davor-skrlec-napusta-orah/887397.aspx|title=Davor Škrlec napušta ORaH|work=index.hr|access-date=13 October 2016}}</ref>

At the assembly held on Sunday, November 15 2020, 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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=16 November 2020|title=Hrvatska je dobila Zelenu alternativu - ORaH|trans-title=Croatia got the Green Alternative - ORaH|url=https://www.orah.hr/tekst/Hrvatska_je_dobila_Zelenu_alternativu_-_ORaH/2583|access-date=18 October 2021|website=Zelena alternativa - Održivi razvoj Hrvatske ORaH|language=hr}}</ref>

==Election results== ===Croatian Parliament=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! Year ! Popular vote <br><small>(coalition)</small> ! % of popular vote ! Overall seats won ! Change ! Coalition ! Government |- ! 2015 | 38.830 | 1.74% | {{Composition bar|0|151|hex={{party color|Green Alternative – Sustainable Development of Croatia}}}} | {{Steady}} | ''—'' | {{no|Extra-parliamentary}} |- !2016 |14,788 |0.78% |{{Composition bar|0|151}} |{{Steady}} |No Selling | {{no|Extra-parliamentary}} |- !2020 | 116,480 | 6.99% |{{Composition bar|0|151|hex={{party color|Green Alternative – Sustainable Development of Croatia}}}} | {{Steady}} |Green–Left | {{no|Extra-parliamentary}} |}

===Presidential elections=== {| class=wikitable |- ! rowspan=2|Election ! rowspan=2|Candidate ! rowspan=2|Party ! colspan=3|1st round ! colspan=3|2nd round ! rowspan=2|Result |- ! Rank ! # of overall vote ! % of overall vote ! Rank ! # of overall vote ! % of overall vote |- ! 2014–15 | Ivo Josipović | SDP | #'''1''' | 687,678 | 38.46 | #'''2''' | 1,082,436 | 49.26 | {{no2|Lost}} |- ! 2019–20 | Rowspan=2|Zoran Milanović | SDP | #'''1''' | 562,783 | 29.55 | #'''1''' | 1,034,170 | 52.66 | {{yes2|Won}} |- ! 2024–25 | Independent{{efn|Milanović was elected in the 2019–20 election as the candidate of the SDP. However, under Article 96 of the Constitution of Croatia, sitting presidents are prohibited from holding party memberships for the duration of their term. As a result, he will stand as an independent candidate, with informal SDP affiliation.}} | #'''1''' | 797,938 | 49.09 | #'''1''' | 1,122,859 | 74.68 | {{yes2|Won}} |}

===European Parliament=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan=2 | Election ! rowspan=2 | List leader ! rowspan=2 | Coalition ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/– ! rowspan=2 | EP Group |- ! colspan=2 | {{small|Coalition}} ! colspan=2 | {{small|ORaH}} |- ! 2014 | Mirela Holy | ''None'' | 86,806 | 9.42 (#3) | {{Composition bar|1|11|hex={{party color|Green Alternative – Sustainable Development of Croatia}}}} | New | Greens/EFA |- ! 2019 | Tomislav Tomašević | Green–Left | 19,313 | 1.79 (#12) | {{Composition bar|0|12|hex={{party color|Green Alternative – Sustainable Development of Croatia}}}} | {{decrease}} 1 | rowspan=2 | – |- ! 2024 | Zorislav Antun Petrović | ''None'' | 1,636 | 0.22 (#15) | {{Composition bar|0|12|hex={{party color|Green Alternative – Sustainable Development of Croatia}}}} | {{steady}} 0 |}

== Notes == <references group="lower-alpha" /> ==References== {{Reflist|2}} {{Croatian political parties}} {{Green parties}} {{Human impact on the environment |state=collapsed}} {{Authority control}}

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