List of female members of the European Parliament for Croatia

This is a list of women who are or have been members of the European Parliament for Croatia.

Overview

In 2013, when Croatia first elected MEPs, 6 of the 12 elected were women.^[1]

In November 2018, Biljana Borzan was appointed as the European Parliament's rapporteur on women rights in the Western Balkans^[2][3] in order to help women in Croatia.^[4]

At the 2019 European Parliament election, Europe overall was said to have poor gender representation of MEPs elected,^[5] in Croatia 6 of the 12 MEPs elected were women.^[6][7]

President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen appointed three women from Balkan countries to her commission as part of scheme to promote women, one of which was Dubravka Suica, to serve as the vice-president for Democracy and Demography.^[8]

Croatia uses gender quotas in their elections to the European Parliament, and have been praised for their gender representation among elected politicians.^[9]

List of female members of the European Parliament for Croatia

Image	Name	National party	EP Group	First elected	Year left
	Biljana Borzan[10]	Social Democratic Party	S&D	2013
	Zdravka Bušić[11]	Croatian Democratic Union	EPP	2013	2014
	Ivana Maletić[12]	Croatian Democratic Union	EPP	2013	2019
	Sandra Petrović Jakovina[13]	Social Democratic Party	S&D	2013	2014
	Dubravka Šuica[14]	Croatian Democratic Union	EPP	2013	2019 - appointed to European Commission[14]
	Ruža Tomašić[15]	Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević	ECR	2013
	Marijana Petir[16]	None	EPP	2014	2019
	Željana Zovko[17]	Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)	EPP	2016
	Romana Jerković[18]	Social Democratic Party (SDP)	S&D	2019 - Took seat after Brexit[18]
	Sunčana Glavak[19]	Croatian Democratic Union	EPP	2019

See also

• Women in Croatia

Further reading

• Women In The European Parliament - Official material from the European Parliament

References

External links