Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine
President	Dragan Čović
Deputy President	Borjana Krišto
Founder	Stjepan Kljujić
Founded	18 August 1990
Headquarters	Mostar
Membership (2014)	35,000
Ideology	Conservatism[1]; Christian democracy[1]; Croatian nationalism[1]; Ethnic federalism; Pro-Europeanism
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.org
	Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Political parties; Elections;

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

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
Cantonal election	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
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
2018	0 / 30	11 / 21	0 / 35	3 / 35	0 / 25	9 / 30	13 / 30	16 / 23	0 / 35	8 / 25	57 / 289

References

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.
http://ba.n1info.com/English/NEWS/a290409/New-Presidency-member-Friendly-cooperation-with-neighbours.html

External links

Official website (in Croatian)

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[Nordsieck-1] 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.

[3] ttp://ba.n1info.com/English/NEWS/a290409/New-Presidency-member-Friendly-cooperation-with-neighbours.html