Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine |
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| Abbreviation | HDZ BiH |
| President | Dragan Čović |
| General Secretary | Miljana Glamuzina |
| Deputy President | Borjana Krišto |
| Vice President | Marinko Čavara Zdenko Ćosić Vjekoslav Bevanda Anto Domić Davor Čordaš |
| Founder | Davor Perinović |
| Founded | 18 August 1990 |
| 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 |
| Membership (2014) | 35,000 |
| Ideology | Croatian nationalism Conservatism Christian Democracy Federalism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| House of Representatives of BiH |
4 / 42
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| House of Peoples of BiH |
3 / 15
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| House of Representatives of the FBiH |
14 / 98
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| House of Peoples of the FBiH |
13 / 58
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| National Assembly of Republika Srpska |
0 / 83
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| 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 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.
The party has had two splinter factions so far:
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