The Croatian Bloc ( hr, Hrvatski blok) or the Croatian National Representation (') was the name held by the wide coalition of

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n political parties in the

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

from 1921 to 1929's 6th of January Dictatorship and within the

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from 1935 to 1941. The first Croatian Bloc was formed on January 14, 1922 when the

Croatian Republican Peasant Party The Croatian Peasant Party ( hr, Hrvatska seljačka stranka, HSS) is an agrarian political party in Croatia founded on 22 December 1904 by Antun and Stjepan Radić as Croatian Peoples' Peasant Party (HPSS). The Brothers Radić believed that t ...

, the Croatian Community, and the Croatian Party of Rights went into alliance. The "Representation" was organized for the first time on June 26, 1921. On that day 63 Croatian representatives to the National Assembly of the new Kingdom were in attendance in

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: 56 elected in Croatia and Slavonia (50 from the

, 4 from the , and 2 from the Croatian Party of Rights) as well as 7 elected in

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(all from the ). They adopted a resolution supporting federalism and a neutral peasant republic. They also voiced their disapproval towards a centralized constitution, which the National Assembly adopted without them (as well as without the communists and others) only two days later. The alliance existed until November 1922 when the Party of Rights was ejected from it. The parties did not participate in a joint list in the 1925 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election. In 1925, the Croatian Peasant Republican Union and the Croatian Party of Rights formed a formal alliance. In 1927, the Croatian Federalist Peasant Party joined this coalition. In the 1927 elections, the bloc participated with its own list. It had two of its candidates elected as national representatives:

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, the president of the Croatian Federalist Peasant Party that had won the greatest number of seats; and

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of the Croatian Party of Rights. After 1927, the Independent Democratic Party formed the with the Peasant Party, and thereby joined the Representation as well. The Representation often met outside of the National Assembly, either in Belgrade or Zagreb and reached their own resolutions. The Representation symbolically took the place of the banned

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and strengthened the authority of peasant leaders Stjepan Radić and Vladko Maček, who became the de facto leaders of the Croatian people.

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