The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (, HDZ BiH) is a

Christian democratic Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well ...

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

, representing the

Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina (), often referred to as Bosnian Croats () or Herzegovinian Croats (), are native to Bosnia and Herzegovina and constitute the third most populous ethnic group, after Bosniaks and Serbs of Bosnia and Herzego ...

. It is an associate member of the

European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian democracy, Christian democratic, liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative, and conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other p ...

. Its headquarters is in

Mostar Mostar () is a city and the administrative centre of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the historical capital of Herzegovina. Mostar is situated on the Neretva Riv ...

History

The party was founded on 18 August 1990, with the first party convention held in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

. 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 House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often ...

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 The Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( or HSP BiH) is an extra-parliamentary party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The party was established in 2004 as a splinter of the Croatian Party of Rights established in 1991, under the name Cr ...

and the Croat People's Union. Throughout its history, the HDZ BiH has had nine presidents, the current one being Dragan Čović since 5 June 2005.Official biography
;accessed 8 September 2018. 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. 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 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.

List of presidents

Elections

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

ImageSize = width:900 height:70 PlotArea = width:800 height:50 left:20 bottom:20 DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1996 till:01/01/2023 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:01/01/1996 Legend = columns:3 left:40 top:75 columnwidth:90 # there is no automatic collision detection, # so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap Colors= id:Coalition value:green legend:Coalition id:Opposition value:red legend:Opposition Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar Define $dy = -1 # adjust height PlotData= bar:Govern. color:blue width:25 mark:(line,black) align:center fontsize:10 from:01/01/1996 till:22/02/2001 shift:($dx,$dy) color:Coalition from:22/02/2001 till:23/12/2002 shift:($dx,$dy) color:Opposition from:23/12/2002 till:end shift:($dx,$dy) color:Coalition

Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

ImageSize = width:900 height:70 PlotArea = width:800 height:50 left:20 bottom:20 DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1996 till:01/01/2024 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:01/01/1996 Legend = columns:3 left:40 top:75 columnwidth:90 # there is no automatic collision detection, # so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap Colors= id:Coalition value:green legend:Coalition id:Opposition value:red legend:Opposition Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar Define $dy = -1 # adjust height PlotData= bar:Govern. color:blue width:25 mark:(line,black) align:center fontsize:10 from:01/01/1996 till:12/03/2001 shift:($dx,$dy) color:Coalition from:12/03/2001 till:14/02/2003 shift:($dx,$dy) color:Opposition from:14/02/2003 till:17/03/2011 shift:($dx,$dy) color:Coalition from:17/03/2011 till:31/03/2015 shift:($dx,$dy) color:Opposition from:31/03/2015 till:end shift:($dx,$dy) color:Coalition

Presidency elections

Cantonal elections

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Croatian Democratic Union Of Bosnia And Herzegovina 1990 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina Conservative parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croat political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian Democratic Union Croatian nationalist parties History of the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nationalist parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Parties related to the European People's Party Political parties established in 1990 Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Pro-European political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Pro-independence parties in Yugoslavia