Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina Hrvatska stranka prava Bosne i Hercegovine
President	Zvonko Jurišić
Secretary-General	Petar Milić
Slogan	Za dom spremni
Founded	25 February 1990 refounded in 1996
Headquarters	Knez Mihajlo Višević Humski 3 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Newspaper	Starčević
Youth wing	Youth of Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Military wing	Croatian Defence Forces (1991 - 1992)
Ideology	Croatian nationalism Conservativism Decentralization
Official colors	Black
Ethnic group	Croats and Bosniaks
House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina	1 / 42
House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina	1 / 15
House of Representatives of Federation	3 / 98
House of Peoples of Federation	1 / 58
Election symbol
Website
http://hsp-bih.ba/

Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska stranka prava Bosne i Hercegovine, HSP BiH) is parlamentary party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and represents ideology of dr. Ante Starčević. Main goals of the HSP BiH are changes of Treaty of Dayton, abolition of entities and subdivision of Bosnia and Herzegovina into territorial units.

History

HSP BiH was founded in 1991 as branch of Croatian Party of Rights. One of the most notable early members of the party is Blaž Kraljević, a general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and founder of the Croatian Defence Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His unit made significiant efforts in defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Party's activity during War in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995) was marked by efforts of keeping unity and friendship of Croats and Bosniaks, its resistance against partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina between Republic of Croatia and FR Yugoslavia and devotion on unification of Croatian and Bosniak state. Part'y earlier political orientation was more nationalist and radicale. After Croatian Democratic Union eliminated Kraljević and had political monopoly over Herzeg-Bosnia, HSP BiH was dissolved. However, party's activity was once again established in 1996.

In 2004, HSP BiH changed name in "Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina Đapić - dr. Jurišić", but in 2010, party took its earlier name.

In February 2010 it was announced that presidents of three parties, Zvonko Jurišić of HSP BiH, Milenko Brkić of Croatian People's Union (HNZ) and Petar Milić of Croatian Union of Herzeg-Bosnia (HZHB), have signed a treaty about unification of those three parties in one party under name "Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina" in Mostar.

Election history

Legislative

The following is a summary of the party's results in legislative elections for the Parliament of Croatia. The "Total votes" and "Percentage" columns include sums of votes won by pre-election coalitions HSP had been part of and the "Total seats" column includes sums of seats won by HSP in election constituencies plus representatives of ethnic minorities affiliated with HSP.

Election	In coalition with	Votes won	Percentage	Seats won	Change
		(Coalition totals)		(HSP only)
November 1990	None	0	0	0 / 42	±0
September 1996	None	14,879	0,6	0 / 42	±0
September 1998	None	10,305	0,6	0 / 42	±0
November 2000	None	1366	0,07	0 / 42	±0
October 2002	None	4401	0,44	0 / 42	±0
October 2006	New Croatian Initiative	19,486	2,3	0 / 42	±0
October 2010	Croatian Coalition	49,524	4,86	1 / 42	+1

Presidential

The following is a list of presidential who ran as HSP members.

• October 2006 – Zvonko Jurišić (HSP BiH) (finished fifth with 6,9% of Croat votes)
• October 2010 – Martin Raguž (Croatian Coalition) (finished third with 10,8% of Croat votes)

See also

• Croatian Party of Rights