Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine
President	Dragan Čović
Founded	18 August 1990
Headquarters	Kneza Domagoja b. b., Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Membership  (2014)	35,000
Ideology	Christian democracy Conservatism Federalism Croatian nationalism
Political position	Right-wing
European affiliation	European People's Party
Colors	Blue
HoR BiH	4 / 42
HoP BiH	4 / 15
HoR FBiH	12 / 98
HoP FBiH	13 / 58
Assembly of RS	0 / 83
Website
http://www.hdzbih.org
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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 of the European People's Party (EPP).

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 People's 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.

The party has had two splinter factions so far:

• 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
	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

See also

• Croatian Democratic Union

External links

• (Croatian)