Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Croatian Peasant Party
Hrvatska seljačka stranka |
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| Leader | Mario Karamatić |
| Founded | 1992 2010 |
| Ideology |
Christian democracy Agrarianism |
| National affiliation | Croatian National Assembly |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
| Colours | Green; Red, White, Blue |
| House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
0 / 42
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| House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
1 / 15
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| House of Representatives of Federation |
0 / 98
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| House of Peoples of Federation |
0 / 58
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| Municipalities |
18 / 29,670
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| Website | |
| http://hss-bih.ba | |
The Croatian Peasant Party (Croatian: Hrvatska seljačka stranka) is a Croatian political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since the legacy and the brand of the historic Croatian Peasant Party from the early 20th Century (led by Stjepan Radić and Vladko Maček) is popular and well-known, there have been couple of splinter groups and various parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina have a similar name, invoking CPP tradition.
CPP was found in 1993 as an effort led by Ivo Komšić and Napredak to create democratic opposition to HDZ policies.
CPP joined HDZ 1990 and other minor Croat parties to form "Croats Together" coalition, challenging HDZ in 2006 elections.
In 2007, CPP and the New Croatian Initiative merged. The New Croatian Initiative was formed earlier as a splinter group from the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Krešimir Zubak. The merger was originally named HSS-NHI (English: CPP-NCI). After CPP-NCI underwent turmoil and internal divisions grew, a division of former CPP members led by Ljiljana Lovrić left the party and reestablished Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010. Weakened CPP joined HDZ and other minor center-right parties in a coalition to contest 2010 elections, opposed to the Croatian Coalition.
In February 2017, party president Mario Karamatić said CPP will demand a reestablishment of Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia in its 1995 shape if the Republika Srpska secedes. Karamatić declared Croats have been "fooled" by the 1994 Washington Agreement that abolished Herzeg-Bosnia and established the Croat-Bosniak Federation, that this agreement was also broken numerous times and that Croats have the right to recede to the status quo ante, i.e., Herzeg-Bosnia. As far as the Herzeg-Bosnia's tentative territory, Karamatić proposed the area served by the electricity utility Elektroprivreda HZ HB, which covers most areas of Croat habitation.
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