Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine
| Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine |
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| Party leader | Dragan Čović |
| founding | August 18, 1990 |
| Headquarters | Mostar |
| Alignment | Croatian nationalism , Christian democracy , conservatism , decentralization |
| Colours) | blue |
| Parliament seats |
4/15 (Upper House BIH) 4/42 ( House of Representatives BIH) 13/58 (Upper House Federation) 12/98 (National Assembly Federation) 0/83 (National Assembly RS) |
| Number of members | 66,352 |
| Website | www.hdzbih.org |
The Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine (Croatian Democratic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina), HDZ BiH for short , is a political party of the Croatian ethnic group in Bosnia and Herzegovina . The HDZ BiH has observer status in the European People's Party (EPP).
So far she has participated in all free elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a rule, the party received the majority support of the Croatian ethnic group in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the elections. She was involved in government until 2000 and from 2002 to 2006.
The party's chairman has been Dragan Čović since June 2005 , who was succeeded by Ante Jelavić and Miroslav Prce. The latter were on 23 January 2004 on suspicion in the Hercegovacka Banka scale funds embezzled to have arrested been.
The primary goal is to represent the interests of the Croatian and Catholic citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Regarding the question of whether the Dayton constitution should be changed, the HDZ BiH believes that a change is necessary and that various options should be checked. In the background of the official party leadership stood or still stand political identification figures and representatives from the circle of the former Croatian Defense Council HVO, who see a sell-out of Croatian interests in the party's pro-state course at times.
history
The party was founded on August 18, 1990 in Sarajevo . It is an offshoot of the Hrvatska demokratska zajednica in Croatia and has long been under the strong influence of the parent party. Programmatically, she campaigned for the right of the Croatian people to self-determination up to and including secession. With financial help from the Croatian diaspora and the state of Croatia, their representatives temporarily succeeded in establishing a parallel state of Herceg-Bosna . After the war from 1992 to 1995, the HDZBiH went through numerous internal conflicts that regularly led to the departure or exclusion of reform forces.
Under its chairman Bariša Čolak, the HDZ BiH showed signs of a new programmatic orientation between 2002 and 2004. It presented itself as a people's party with European characteristics, which advocates upholding the values of the Croatian and Christian cultural communities. She wanted to address all strata of the Croatian population group in Bosnia and Herzegovina without excluding citizens of other ethnic origins or religious affiliations. This development culminated in December 2004 with recognition as an EPP observer. Since then, however, the party has moved away from the programmatic realignment. In June 2005, Dragan Čović was elected as the new chairman, despite the fact that he is being tried on serious criminal charges. In January 2006 the EPP decided to stop all contacts with the HDZBiH board. However, the party retained its observer status. Due to internal party differences, the HDZ split off from the HDZBiH in April 2006.
Election results
In the elections in October 2002, the party was part of the electoral alliance "Koalicija" (German: coalition ), which was able to unite 9.5% of the vote and thus 5 of the 42 seats in the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 16 of 140 seats in the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
In the elections in October 2006, the HDZ suffered losses after the HDZ split off in 1990 ( Hrvatska demokratska zajednica 1990 ). In the House of Representatives for the entire state, the party lost 2 of the 5 seats and now only has 3 of 42 MPs. The spin-off HDZ in 1990 gained 2 seats. The HDZ also lost seats in the Federation's House of Representatives : It now has 8 (-8) of the 98 MPs. Finally, the HDZ candidate for the three-person state presidency Ivo Miro Jović was clearly not elected with only 26.1% of the Croatian votes.
literature
- Holger Kasch: The HDZBiH and the demand for Croatian sovereignty in Bosnia-Herzegovina . In: Südosteuropa: Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung . Volume 51/2002, issue 7/9, p. 331-354 .
- Mira Sakic-Jovanovic: Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Overview . In: Working papers and materials from the Eastern Europe Research Center at the University of Bremen . No. May 26 , 2001, ISSN 1616-7384 , p. 20–24 ( uni-bremen.de [PDF]).
Web links
- Official website of the HDZ BiH (Croatian)
- HDZBiH homepage (English)
- Konrad Adenauer Foundation: Party Profiles: New Neighbors; South East Europe, 2004 (PDF file; 1.7 MB)
- Party cooperation of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, October 2006 (PDF file; 344 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anes Alic: Influential Bosnian Trio Arrested ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 26, 2004
- ↑ Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (2004), see web links
- ↑ Novinska agencija TANJUG (ed.): Stranke u Jugoslaviji, o.O. 1990, p. 75
- ↑ Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (2006), see web links
