The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (Croatian: Socijaldemokratska partija Hrvatske), commonly referred to in Croatia as simply the Social Democratic Party (Socijaldemokratska partija or SDP for short), is a social democratic political party and the largest centre-left political party in Croatia. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Croatia, along with the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). It is the senior partner in the Kukuriku coalition.
SDP first won power in 2000 and formed a coalition government headed by Prime Minister Ivica Račan. After losing the 2003 general election, the party went to opposition where they remained for eight years. In the most recent 2011 election SDP won 61 (one of them was elected as an independent, but sits in the SDP parliamentary club) out of 151 seats in the Parliament of Croatia which makes it the largest party in Parliament. The leader of the party, Zoran Milanović, is the current Prime Minister of Croatia.
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