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 |
Founder | Davor Perinović |
Founded | 18 August 1990 |
Headquarters | Kneza Domagoja bb 88000, Mostar |
Youth wing | Youth HDZ BiH |
Membership (2014) | 35,000 |
Ideology | |
Political position | Centre-right [2] to right-wing [3] |
National affiliation | Croatian National Assembly |
European affiliation | European People's Party (observer) |
International affiliation | International Democracy Union [4] |
Colors | Blue |
HoR BiH | 4 / 42 |
HoP BiH | 3 / 15 |
HoR FBiH | 15 / 98 |
HoP FBiH | 16 / 80 |
NA RS | 0 / 83 |
Website | |
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The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian : Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine, abbr.HDZ BiH) is a Christian democratic Croatian nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is an observer member of the European People's Party. Its headquarters is in Mostar.
The party was founded on 18 August 1990, with the first party convention held in Sarajevo. It has participated in all multiparty elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1991. It regularly won the 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. Since 2014, the party has once again been in power.
In the October 2002 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 national House of Representatives and 16 of the 98 seats in the Federal House of Representatives.
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.
Throughout its history, the HDZ BiH has had nine presidents, the current one being Dragan Čović since 5 June 2005. [5] Four of the six Croat members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina have come from the party, the most recent one also being Čović, serving in office from 2014 until 2018. [5]
In the 2018 general election, the party was in a coalition with three other Bosnian Croat parties (Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian Christian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina), winning 149,872 or 9.05% of the votes, five out of 42 seats in the national House of Representatives and 16 out of 98 in the Federal one. [6]
# | Name (Born–Died) | Portrait | Term of Office | |
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1 | Davorin Perinović (b. 1949) | ![]() | 18 August 1990 | 7 September 1990 |
2 | Stjepan Kljuić (b. 1939) | ![]() | 7 September 1990 | 2 February 1992 |
3 | Milenko Brkić (1944–2017) | ![]() | 2 February 1992 | 14 November 1992 |
4 | Mate Boban (1940–1997) | ![]() | 14 November 1992 | 10 July 1994 |
5 | Dario Kordić (b. 1960) | ![]() | 10 July 1994 | 2 December 1995 |
6 | Božo Rajić (b. 1943) | ![]() | 2 December 1995 | 17 May 1998 |
7 | Ante Jelavić (b. 1963) | ![]() | 17 May 1998 | 4 May 2002 |
8 | Bariša Čolak (b. 1956) | ![]() | 4 May 2002 | 5 June 2005 |
9 | Dragan Čović (b. 1956) | ![]() | 5 June 2005 | present |
Year | Leader | # | Popular vote | % | Seats won | Government |
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1990 | Stjepan Kljuić | 3rd | 362,855 | 16.07 | 44 / 240 | Coalition |
Year | Leader | # | Popular vote | % | HoR | Seat change | HoP | Seat change | Government |
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1996 | Božo Rajić | 3rd | 338,440 | 14.10 | 8 / 42 | New | 5 / 15 | New | Coalition |
1998 | Ante Jelavić | 2nd | 200,092 | 11.59 | 6 / 42 | ![]() | 5 / 15 | ![]() | Coalition |
2000 | 4th | 169,821 | 11.40 | 5 / 42 | ![]() | 0 / 15 | ![]() | Opposition | |
2002 [lower-alpha 1] | Bariša Čolak | 6th | 116,452 | 9.48 | 5 / 42 | ![]() | 4 / 15 | ![]() | Coalition |
2006 [lower-alpha 2] | Dragan Čović | 6th | 69,333 | 4.91 | 3 / 42 | ![]() | 3 / 15 | ![]() | Coalition |
2010 | 6th | 114,476 | 6.97 | 3 / 42 | ![]() | 2 / 15 | ![]() | Coalition | |
2014 [lower-alpha 3] | 6th | 123,023 | 7.54 | 4 / 42 | ![]() | 3 / 15 | ![]() | Coalition | |
2018 [lower-alpha 4] | 5th | 149,872 | 9.05 | 5 / 42 | ![]() | 4 / 15 | ![]() | Coalition | |
2022 [lower-alpha 5] | 3rd | 139,018 | 8.75 | 4 / 42 | ![]() | 3 / 15 | ![]() | Coalition |
Year | Leader | # | Popular vote | % | HoR | Seat change | HoP | Seat change | Government |
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1996 | Božo Rajić | 2nd | 337,794 | 25.29 | 36 / 140 | New | 30 / 65 | New | Coalition |
1998 | Ante Jelavić | 2nd | 184,569 | 19.89 | 28 / 140 | ![]() | 25 / 72 | ![]() | Coalition |
2000 | 3rd | 151,812 | 17.49 | 25 / 140 | ![]() | 11 / 81 | ![]() | Opposition | |
2002 [lower-alpha 1] | Bariša Čolak | 4th | 113,097 | 15.76 | 16 / 98 | ![]() | 13 / 58 | ![]() | Coalition |
2006 [lower-alpha 2] | Dragan Čović | 4th | 64,906 | 7.56 | 8 / 98 | ![]() | 7 / 58 | ![]() | Coalition |
2010 | 4th | 108,943 | 10.64 | 12 / 98 | ![]() | 10 / 58 | ![]() | Opposition | |
2014 [lower-alpha 3] | 4th | 118,375 | 11.93 | 12 / 98 | ![]() | 13 / 58 | ![]() | Coalition | |
2018 [lower-alpha 4] | 3rd | 143,704 | 14.35 | 16 / 98 | ![]() | 13 / 58 | ![]() | Coalition | |
2022 [lower-alpha 5] | 3rd | 130,566 | 13.38 | 15 / 98 | ![]() | 17 / 80 | ![]() | Coalition | |
Election year | # | Candidate | Votes | % | Representing | Elected? |
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1996 | 1st | Krešimir Zubak | 330,477 | 88.70% | Croats | Yes |
1998 | 1st | Ante Jelavić | 189,438 | 52.91% | Croats | Yes |
2002 | 1st | Dragan Čović | 114,606 | 61.52% | Croats | Yes |
2006 | 2nd | Ivo Miro Jović | 76,681 | 26.14% | Croats | No |
2010 | 2nd | Borjana Krišto | 109,758 | 19.74% | Croats | No |
2014 | 1st | Dragan Čović | 128,053 | 52.20% | Croats | Yes |
2018 | 2nd | Dragan Čović | 154,819 | 36.14% | Croats | No |
2022 | 2nd | Borjana Krišto | 180,255 | 44.20% | Croats | No |
Cantonal election | Cantonal Assembly | |||||||||||||
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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 | |||
2022 | 0 / 30 | 12 / 21 | 0 / 35 | 3 / 35 | 0 / 25 | 9 / 30 | 11 / 30 | 14 / 23 | 0 / 35 | 5 / 25 | 54 / 289 |
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