Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine
President Dragan Čović
General Secretary Miljana Glamuzina
Deputy President Borjana Krišto
Vice President Marinko Čavara
Zdenko Ćosić
Vjekoslav Bevanda
Anto Domić
Davor Čordaš
Founder Stjepan Kljujić
Founded 18 August 1990 (1990-08-18)
Headquarters Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Youth wing Youth of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Women's wing Women's Union of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina "Kraljica Katarina Kosača"
Membership (2014) 35,000
Ideology Croatian nationalism[1]
Conservatism[1]
Christian democracy[1]
Federalism
Pro-Europeanism
Political position Centre-right[2]
European affiliation European People's Party (observer)
House of Representatives of BiH
5 / 42
House of Peoples of BiH
3 / 15
House of Representatives of the FBiH
15 / 98
House of Peoples of the FBiH
13 / 58
National Assembly of Republika Srpska
0 / 83
Website
http://www.hdzbih.org/

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.

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 140 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 December 2017, two splinter fraction have already emerged from HDZ BiH:

Party presidents

Cantonal election results

Cantonal electionCantonal Assembly
Una-SanaPosavinaTuzlaZenica-DobojBosnian Podrinje GoraždeCentral BosniaHerzegovina-NeretvaWest HerzegovinaSarajevoCanton 10Total 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
1998
1 / 50
17 / 30
2 / 50
4 / 50
0 / 31
18 / 50
25 / 50
26 / 31
1 / 45
18 / 30
112 / 417
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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Bosnia-Herzegovina". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  2. ↑ 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.
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