President of the Croatian Democratic Union
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Croatian Democratic Union
Hrvatska demokratska zajednica |
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| President | Andrej Plenković |
| Secretary | Gordan Jandroković |
| Founder | Franjo Tuđman |
| Founded | 17 June 1989 |
| Headquarters | Zagreb, Croatia |
| Youth wing | Youth of the Croatian Democratic Union |
| Membership (2016) | 208,277 |
| Ideology |
Conservatism Christian democracy Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position |
Centre-right to Right-wing |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| International affiliation |
Centrist Democrat International, International Democrat Union |
| European Parliament group | European People's Party |
| Colours | Blue |
| Sabor |
57 / 151
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| European Parliament |
4 / 11
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| County Prefects |
11 / 21
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| Mayors |
60 / 128
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| www |
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The Croatian Democratic Union (Croatian: Hrvatska demokratska zajednica or HDZ) is a conservative political party and the main centre-right political party in Croatia. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Croatia, along with the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP). It is currently the largest party in the Sabor with 56 seats. The HDZ ruled Croatia from 1990 after the country gained independence from Yugoslavia until 2000 and, in coalition with junior partners, from 2003 to 2011 as well as since 2016. The party is a member of the European People's Party (EPP).
The HDZ was founded on 17 June 1989 by Croatian dissidents led by Franjo Tuđman. It was officially registered on 25 January 1990. The HDZ held its first convention on 24–25 February 1990, when Franjo Tuđman was elected its president. When the party was founded, the government of the Socialist Republic of Croatia just introduced a multi-party system in Croatia and scheduled elections for the Croatian Parliament.
President Tuđman and other HDZ officials traveled abroad and gathered large financial contributions from Croatian expatriates. On the eve of the 1990 parliamentary elections, the ruling League of Communists of Croatia saw such tendencies within the HDZ as an opportunity to remain in power. At the beginning of democracy the communists called HDZ "the party of dangerous intentions".The HDZ won a majority in the Croatian Parliament, and Croatia became one of the few countries of Eastern Europe where Communist single party rule was replaced by anti-Communist single party rule. May 30, 1990 - the day the HDZ formally took power - was later celebrated as Statehood Day, a public holiday in Croatia.
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