Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina Hrvatska stranka prava Bosne i Hercegovine
Abbreviation	HSP BiH
President	Stanko Primorac
Founded	5 May 2004
Headquarters	Kneza Mihajla Viševića Humskog 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	Croatian nationalism Neo-fascism
Political position	Far-right
National affiliation	Croatian National Assembly
Colours	Black
Slogan	Uvijek vjerni
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 / 80
National Assembly of RS	0 / 83
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The Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska stranka prava Bosne i Hercegovine or HSP BiH) is an extra-parliamentary party in Bosnia and Herzegovina that represents the ideology of Dr. Ante Starčević. The main goals of the HSP BiH are changes to the Treaty of Dayton, abolition of entities and subdivision of Bosnia and Herzegovina into territorial units.

History

Austria-Hungary

Austrian-Hungarian authorities considered the 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 the Croat People's Union (Hrvatski narodni savez, HNZ) with the goal of establishing Starčević's party ideology. HNZ was mostly supported by peasantry, tradesmen and Franciscans. The 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. Another party which used elements of Starčević's policy was the Croat Catholic Association (Hrvatska katolička udruga, HKU), which was not a secular party as HNZ was. Its leader was Roman Catholic bishop Josip Stadler. HKU established good relations with the Pure Party of Rights in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and especially in the Kingdom of Dalmatia and also the Catholic-Social Party in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. The party advocated political Catholicism and unification of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Croat lands.

Pilar and his associates stopped cooperating with the Catholic Association because of their political ideology, even though before that, they had good relations with Stadler. A second reason for the freezing of relations was the effort of HKU to unite Bosnia and Herzegovina with Croat lands, which Bosnian Muslims and Serbs didn't approve of. Since both HNZ and HKU were part of the Pan-Pravaštvo organization, both parties continued to cooperate in 1911 until the end of World War I. In the election for Bosnian legislature in 1910, HNZ won 12 out of 16 Catholic seats, while HKU won the other four. 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 the Croatian Party of Rights. One of the most notable early members of the party was 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. The party's activities during the Bosnian War (1992–95) was marked by efforts to keep unity and friendship of Croats and Bosniaks, its resistance against the partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina between Republic of Croatia and FR Yugoslavia and devotion to unification of Bosnian Croats and the Bosniak state. The Party's earlier political orientation was more nationalist and radical. After the Croatian Democratic Union eliminated Kraljević and had a political monopoly over Herzeg-Bosnia, HSP BiH was dissolved. However, the party's activity was once again established in 1996.

In 2004, HSP BiH changed its name to "Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina Đapić - dr. Jurišić", but in 2010, the 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), had signed a treaty for unification of those three parties in one party under the name "Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina" in Mostar.

Elections

Presidency elections

Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Election year	#	Candidate	Votes	%	Representing	Note	Elected?
2006	5th	Zvonko Jurišić	20,350	6.94%	Croats	—	No
2010	3rd	Martin Raguž	60,266	10.84%	Croats	Support	No
2014	1st	Dragan Čović	128,053	52.20%	Croats	Support	Yes
2018	2nd	Dragan Čović	154,819	36.14%	Croats	Support	No
2022	2nd	Borjana Krišto	180,255	44.20%	Croats	Support	No

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Year	#	Popular vote	%	HoR	Seat change	HoP	Seat change	Government
2006	11th	69,333	4.91	0 / 42	New	0 / 15	New	Extra-parliamentary
2010	8th	50,071	3.05	1 / 42	1	0 / 15		Opposition
2014	17th	5,475	0.56	0 / 42	1	0 / 15		Extra-parliamentary
2018	5th	149,872	9.05	0 / 42		0 / 15		Extra-parliamentary
2022	3rd	139,018	8.75	0 / 42		0 / 15		Extra-parliamentary