Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine | |
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President | Dragan Čović |
Deputy President | Borjana Krišto |
Founder | Stjepan Kljujić |
Founded | 18 August 1990 |
Headquarters | Mostar |
Membership (2014) | 35,000 |
Ideology | |
Political position | Centre-right[2] to right-wing[3] |
National affiliation | Croatian National Assembly |
European affiliation | European People's Party (observer) |
International affiliation | International Democrat Union |
House of Representatives of BiH | 5 / 42 |
House of Peoples of BiH | 4 / 15 |
House of Representatives of the FBiH | 16 / 98 |
House of Peoples of the FBiH | 14 / 58 |
National Assembly of RS | 0 / 83 |
Website | |
hdzbih | |
The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine or HDZ BiH) is the largest political party of Bosnian Croats. It is an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP). Its headquarters are in Mostar.
History
This section needs to be updated.(July 2016) |
The party was formed on 18 August 1990, at the first party convention held in Sarajevo, and it participated in all multiparty elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1991. It regularly won support of the Croat electorate up to 2000, and took part in forming the government. It returned to power in 2002, where it remained until 2010.
In the October 2002 Bosnian general election, the party was part of the "Croatian Coalition" (Hrvatska koalicija) which won 9.5% of the popular vote and five out of 42 seats in the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 16 out of 98 seats in the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2006 the party joined the Croatian National Assembly, an alliance of Bosnian Croat political parties, along with the Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croat People's Union.
As of April 2006, two splinter fraction had already emerged from HDZ BiH:
- New Croatian Initiative (Nova hrvatska inicijativa or NHI), led by Krešimir Zubak
- Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica 1990 or HDZ 1990), led by Božo Ljubić
Party presidents
- Davorin Perinović (1990)
- Stjepan Kljuić (1990–92)
- Milenko Brkić (1992)
- Mate Boban (1992–94)
- Dario Kordić (1994–95)
- Božo Rajić (1995–98)
- Ante Jelavić (1998–2002)
- Bariša Čolak (2002–05)
- Dragan Čović (2005–)
Cantonal election results
Cantonal election | Cantonal Assembly | |||||||||||||
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Una-Sana | Posavina | Tuzla | Zenica-Doboj | Bosnian Podrinje Goražde | Central Bosnia | Herzegovina-Neretva | West Herzegovina | Sarajevo | Canton 10 | Total won / Total contested | ||||
1996 | 1 / 50 |
17 / 20 |
3 / 50 |
9 / 59 |
0 / 31 |
23 / 55 |
28 / 50 |
29 / 31 |
3 / 45 |
13 / 15 |
125 / 406
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1998 | 1 / 50 |
17 / 30 |
2 / 50 |
4 / 50 |
0 / 31 |
18 / 50 |
25 / 50 |
26 / 31 |
1 / 45 |
18 / 30 |
112 / 417
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2000 | 0 / 30 |
7 / 19 |
1 / 35 |
2 / 35 |
0 / 25 |
8 / 28 |
13 / 28 |
15 / 21 |
1 / 35 |
12 / 23 |
59 / 279
| |||
2002 | 0 / 30 |
10 / 21 |
0 / 35 |
2 / 35 |
0 / 25 |
10 / 30 |
15 / 30 |
18 / 23 |
0 / 35 |
13 / 25 |
68 / 289
| |||
2006 | 0 / 30 |
7 / 21 |
0 / 35 |
2 / 35 |
0 / 25 |
6 / 30 |
7 / 30 |
9 / 23 |
0 / 35 |
5 / 25 |
36 / 289
| |||
2010 | 0 / 30 |
8 / 21 |
1 / 35 |
2 / 35 |
0 / 25 |
7 / 30 |
10 / 30 |
13 / 23 |
0 / 35 |
7 / 25 |
48 / 289
| |||
2014 | 0 / 30 |
7 / 21 |
0 / 35 |
2 / 35 |
0 / 25 |
8 / 30 |
11 / 30 |
14 / 23 |
0 / 35 |
9 / 25 |
51 / 289
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2018 | 0 / 30 |
11 / 21 |
0 / 35 |
3 / 35 |
0 / 25 |
9 / 30 |
13 / 30 |
16 / 23 |
0 / 35 |
8 / 25 |
57 / 289
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See also
References
- ^ a b c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Bosnia-Herzegovina". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ Nardelli, Alberto; Dzidic, Denis; Jukic, Elvira (8 October 2014). "Bosnia and Herzegovina: the world's most complicated system of government?". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ Arnautović, Suad (2018). "The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Mitigated Presidentialism". In Passarelli, Gianluca (ed.). The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 87. ISBN 978-3-319-97352-4.
External links
- Official website (in Croatian)
- 1990 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Conservative parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croat political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatian Democratic Union
- Croatian nationalism
- History of the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Political parties established in 1990
- Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Political parties in Yugoslavia
- Pro-European political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina