Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Template:Langx, Template:Small HDZ BiH) is a Christian democratic Croatian nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is an associate member of the European People's Party. Its headquarters is in Mostar.
History
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. Shortly after, a group HDZ BiH members loyal to Božo Ljubić left the party and founded the Croatian Democratic Union 1990 on 26 April 2006.
Throughout its history, the HDZ BiH has had nine presidents, the current one being Dragan Čović since 5 June 2005.<ref name=bio>Official biography Template:Webarchive;accessed 8 September 2018.</ref> 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.<ref name=bio/>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
List of presidents
| # | Name (Born–Died) |
Portrait | Term of Office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 1 | Davorin Perinović (b. 1949) |
File:Unknown person.jpg | 18 August 1990 | 7 September 1990 |
| align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 2 | Stjepan Kljuić (b. 1939) |
File:Unknown person.jpg | 7 September 1990 | 2 February 1992 |
| align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 3 | Milenko Brkić (1944–2017) |
File:Unknown person.jpg | 2 February 1992 | 14 November 1992 |
| align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 4 | Mate Boban (1940–1997) |
File:Unknown person.jpg | 14 November 1992 | 10 July 1994 |
| align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 5 | Dario Kordić (b. 1960) |
File:Unknown person.jpg | 10 July 1994 | 2 December 1995 |
| align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 6 | Božo Rajić (b. 1943) |
File:Unknown person.jpg | 2 December 1995 | 17 May 1998 |
| align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 7 | Ante Jelavić (b. 1963) |
File:Unknown person.jpg | 17 May 1998 | 4 May 2002 |
| align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 8 | Bariša Čolak (b. 1956) |
File:Bariša Čolak (cropped).jpg | 4 May 2002 | 5 June 2005 |
| align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 9 | Dragan Čović (b. 1956) |
File:Dragan Čović 2025.jpg | 5 June 2005 | present |
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Elections
Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
| Year | Leader | # | Popular vote | % | Seats won | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Stjepan Kljuić | 3rd | 362,855 | 16.07 | Template:Composition bar | Template:Yes2 |
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Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Presidency elections
| Election year | # | Candidate | Votes | % | Representing | Elected? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1st | Krešimir Zubak | 330,477 | 88.70% | Croats | Template:Yes |
| 1998 | 1st | Ante Jelavić | 189,438 | 52.91% | Croats | Template:Yes |
| 2002 | 1st | Dragan Čović | 114,606 | 61.52% | Croats | Template:Yes |
| 2006 | 2nd | Ivo Miro Jović | 76,681 | 26.14% | Croats | Template:No |
| 2010 | 2nd | Borjana Krišto | 109,758 | 19.74% | Croats | Template:No |
| 2014 | 1st | Dragan Čović | 128,053 | 52.20% | Croats | Template:Yes |
| 2018 | 2nd | Dragan Čović | 154,819 | 36.14% | Croats | Template:No |
| 2022 | 2nd | Borjana Krišto | 180,255 | 44.20% | Croats | Template:No |
Cantonal elections
See also
References
External links
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