Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska seljačka stranka Bosne i Hercegovine or HSS BiH) is a Croatian political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hrvatska seljačka stranka Bosne i Hercegovine
PresidentMario Karamatić
Founded1993
2010
IdeologyChristian democracy
Agrarianism
Croatian nationalism
Ethnic federalism
Croat entity establishment
Political positionCentre
National affiliationCroatian National Assembly[1]
International affiliationCentrist Democrat International
ColoursGreen; Red, White, Blue
House of Representatives of BiH
0 / 42
House of Peoples of BiH
0 / 15
House of Representatives of the FBiH
0 / 98
House of Peoples of the FBiH
0 / 58
Municipalities
18 / 29,670
Website
http://hss-bih.ba

Since the legacy and the brand of the historic Croatian Peasant Party from the early 20th Century (led by Stjepan Radić and Vladko Maček) is popular and well-known, there have been couple of splinter groups and various parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina have a similar name, invoking CPP tradition.

History

CPP was found in 1993 as an effort led by Ivo Komšić and Napredak to create democratic opposition to HDZ policies.

CPP joined HDZ 1990 and other minor Croat parties to form "Croats Together" coalition, challenging HDZ in 2006 elections.

In 2007, CPP and the New Croatian Initiative merged. The New Croatian Initiative was formed earlier as a splinter group from the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Krešimir Zubak. The merger was originally named HSS-NHI (English: CPP-NCI). After CPP-NCI underwent turmoil and internal divisions grew, a division of former CPP members led by Ljiljana Lovrić left the party and reestablished Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010. Weakened CPP joined HDZ and other minor center-right parties in a coalition to contest 2010 elections, opposed to the Croatian Coalition.

In February 2017, party president Mario Karamatić said CPP will demand a reestablishment of Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia in its 1995 shape if the Republika Srpska secedes.[2] Karamatić declared Croats have been "fooled" by the 1994 Washington Agreement that abolished Herzeg-Bosnia and established the Croat-Bosniak Federation, that this agreement was also broken numerous times and that Croats have the right to recede to the status quo ante, i.e., Herzeg-Bosnia.[3] As far as the Herzeg-Bosnia's tentative territory, Karamatić proposed the area served by the electricity utility Elektroprivreda HZ HB,[4] which covers most areas of Croat habitation.[5]

Election history

2006

As a part of "Croats Together" coalition, CPP won 1 seat in the House of Representatives and 2 out of 17 Croat seats in the House of Peoples of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2010

Part of HDZ-led coalition. No seats won.

2014

In the 2014 Bosnia elections, most of the parties participating in Croatian National Assembly's work (HDZ BiH, Croatian Peasant Party, HKDU BiH, HSP "dr. Ante Starčević" and HSP HB) formed a joint electoral coalition to contest the entity and state parliamentary elections as well as the elections for the Croat member of the state presidency.[6] Coalition won 14 out of 17 Croat seats in the House of Peoples in Federation's Parliament and 4 out of 5 Croat seats in the State House of Peoples, together with 19 seats in Federation's and 14 in State House of Representatives, respectively. CPP's deputies formed a joint club with other parties from CNA Coalition's list. CPP's Mario Karamatić holds one of five Croat seats in the state House of Peoples.

Splinter groups

See also

Sources
  1. Članice, hnsbih.org, February 2017
  2. "HSS will demand re-establishment of HR- HB in case of secession of RS", fena.ba, 22.02.2017.
  3. "KARAMATIĆ: KUD' STRUJA, TUD' I REFERENDUM!", starmo.ba, February 22nd, 2017
  4. "Beljak u Mostaru: Hrvati Herceg-Bosne bili su na braniku Hrvatske, a ona ih je ignorirala 100 godina" Archived 2017-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, RADIO LJUBUŠKI, February 22nd, 2017
  5. Bosnia's Future, p. 37
  6. Krešić Zoran: "HNS jedina hrvatska koalicija na izborima", vecernji list, July 2014
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