Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina
President	Zvonko Jurišić
Secretary-General	Petar Milić
Deputy President	Josip Perić
Vice President	Stanko Primorac Marko Dražetić
Youth President	Ivica Skočibušić
Slogan	Uvijek vjerni
Founded	25 February 1990 refounded in 1996
Headquarters	Knez Mihajlo Višević Humski 3 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Newspaper	Starčević
Youth wing	Youth of Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Military wing	Croatian Defence Forces (1991 - 1992)
Ideology	Neo-fascism
Political position	Far-right
Colors	Black
House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina	0 / 42
House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina	0 / 15
National Assembly of Republika Srpska	1 / 83
Election symbol
Website
hsp-bih.ba
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Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska stranka prava Bosne i Hercegovine, HSP BiH) is parliamentary party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and represents ideology of dr. Ante Starčević. Main goals of the HSP BiH are changes of Treaty of Dayton, abolition of entities and subdivision of Bosnia and Herzegovina into territorial units.

History

Austria-Hungary

Austrian-Hungarian authorities found foundation of the Ante Starčević's Party of Rights (Stranka prava) in the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina undesirable. The group of Croat intellectuals thus founded Croat People's Union (Hrvatski narodni savez, HNZ) with goal to establish Starčević's party ideology. HNZ was mostly supported by peasantry, tradesmen and franciscans. Party's leader was Nikola Mandić, while other prominent members of the party were Ivo Pilar, Safvet-beg Bašagić, Hamid Ekrem Sahinović and Jozo Sunarić. Other party which used elements of Starčević's policy was Croat Catholic Association (Hrvatska katolička udruga, HKU), which was not secular party as HNZ was. Its leader was Roman Catholic bishop, Josip Stadler. HKU made good relations with Pure Party of Rights in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and especially in Kingdom of Dalmatia and also Catholic-Social Party in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Party advocated political Catholicism and unification of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Croat lands.

Pilar and his associates stopped to cooperate with Catholic Association because of their political ideology, even though before that, they were in good relations to Stadler. Second reason for freezing of relations was effort of HKU to unite Bosnia and Herzegovina with Croat lands, which Bosnian Muslims and Serbs didn't approve. Since both, HNZ and HKU were part of Pan-Pravaštvo organization, both parties continued to cooperate in 1911 until the end of the World War I. On the election for Bosnian legislature in 1910, HNZ won 12 out of 16 Catholic seats, while HKU won other 4. Safvet-beg Bašagić of HNZ was also a president of the Bosnian council in 1910.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

HSP BiH was founded in 1991 as branch of Croatian Party of Rights. One of the most notable early members of the party is Blaž Kraljević, a general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and founder of the Croatian Defence Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His unit made significant efforts in defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Party's activity during the Bosnian War (1992–95) was marked by efforts of keeping unity and friendship of Croats and Bosniaks, its resistance against partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina between Republic of Croatia and FR Yugoslavia and devotion on unification of Bosnian Croats and the Bosniak state. The Party's earlier political orientation was more nationalist and radical. After Croatian Democratic Union eliminated Kraljević and had political monopoly over Herzeg-Bosnia, HSP BiH was dissolved. However, party's activity was once again established in 1996.

In 2004, HSP BiH changed name in "Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina Đapić - dr. Jurišić", but in 2010, party took its earlier name.

In February 2010 it was announced that presidents of three parties, Zvonko Jurišić of HSP BiH, Milenko Brkić of Croatian People's Union (HNZ) and Petar Milić of Croatian Union of Herzeg-Bosnia (HZHB), have signed a treaty about unification of those three parties in one party under name "Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina" in Mostar.

Election history

Legislative

The following is a summary of the party's results in legislative elections for the House of Representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The "Total votes" and "Percentage" columns include sums of votes won by pre-election coalitions HSP had been part of and the "Total seats" column includes sums of seats won by HSP in election constituencies plus representatives of ethnic minorities affiliated with HSP.

Election	In coalition with	Votes won	Percentage	Seats won	Change
		(Coalition totals)		(HSP only)
November 1990	None	0	0	0 / 42	±0
September 1996	None	14,879	0,6	0 / 42	±0
September 1998	None	10,305	0,6	0 / 42	±0
November 2000	None	1366	0,07	0 / 42	±0
October 2002	None	4401	0,44	0 / 42	±0
October 2006	New Croatian Initiative	19,486	2,3	0 / 42	±0
October 2010	Croatian Democratic Union 1990	49,524	4,86	1 / 42	+1

Presidential

The following is a list of presidential who ran as HSP members.

• October 2006 – Zvonko Jurišić (HSP BiH) (finished fifth with 6,9% of Croat votes)
• October 2010 – Martin Raguž (Croatian Coalition) (finished third with 10,8% of Croat votes)

See also

• Croatian Party of Rights