Abbreviation HDZ BiH General Secretary Miljana Glamuzina Founder Davor Perinović | President Dragan Čović Deputy President Borjana Krišto | |
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Vice President Marinko Čavara
Zdenko Ćosić
Vjekoslav Bevanda
Anto Domić
Davor Čordaš | ||
The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine or HDZ BiH) is the largest political party of Bosnian Croats. It is an observer of the European People's Party (EPP). Its headquarters are in Mostar.
The party was formed on 18 August 1990, at the first party convention held in Sarajevo, and it participated in all multiparty elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1991. It regularly won 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.
In the October 2002 Bosnian 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 House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 16 out of 140 seats in the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2006 the party joined the Croatian People's Assembly, an alliance of Bosnian Croat political parties, along with the Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croat People's Union.
The party has had two splinter factions so far: