The Croatian Republican Party (Croatian: Hrvatska republikanska stranka, HRS) is a Croat conservative, centre-right political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The party also participates in 11th electoral district for Croatian parliament in cooperation with The Bridge.[1]
Croatian Republican Party Hrvatska republikanska stranka | |
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| Abbreviation | HRS |
| President and founder | Slaven Raguž |
| Founded | 11 May 2014 |
| Split from | Croatian Democratic Union 1990 |
| Headquarters | Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 13 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation | Croatian National Assembly |
| Colours | |
| HoR BiH | 0 / 42 |
| HoP BiH | 0 / 15 |
| HoR FBiH | 1 / 98 |
| HoP FBiH | 0 / 80 |
| Website | |
| hrsbih | |
History
editThe HRS was founded on 11 May 2014 by HDZ 1990 dissidents led by Slaven Raguž. At the founding assembly held at the Croatian Lodge "Herceg Stjepan Kosača", Slaven Raguž, who had recently left the HDZ 1990 as president of the Mostar City Committee and a member of the party's Central Committee, was elected acting president of the HRS. In 1990, several former HDZ officials, activists and young Croat intellectuals in BiH founded a new political party aimed at being an alternative to the ruling parties and fighting harder to establish a majority Croat federal unit within BiH. Former member of the HDZ 1990 Presidency, Slaven Bevanda, then Ivica Barabarić, Ivica Pušić and Dalibor Ravić were also elected to the interim presidency, which will lead the party until the convention. According to Raguž, HRS aims to be a political alternative at lower levels, but will be open to co-operation with parties seeking to improve the position of Croats in BiH: "The primary focus is on resolving the constitutional and legal status of Croats in BiH, BiH regulated on consociational and federalist principles, for BiH tailored to all three of its constituent peoples and all its citizens, where the Croatian issue would be resolved through an administrative territorial unit with a relative Croat majority".[2]
In the 2022 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina general election, the party won a total of six seats in the Assemblies of the cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Raguž won a seat in the House of Representatives in the 9th Electoral Unit
Elections
editParliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
edit| Year | # | Popular vote | % | HoR | Seat change | HoP | Seat change | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 24th | 11,231 | 0.71 | 0 / 42
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New | 0 / 15
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New | Extra-parliamentary |
Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
edit| Year | # | Popular vote | HoR | Seat change | HoP | Seat change | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 18th | 6,670 | 0 / 98
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New | 0 / 58
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New | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2022 | 15th | 13,050 | 1 / 98
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 1
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0 / 80
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 0
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Opposition |
Cantonal assembly elections
edit| Cantonal election | Cantonal Assembly | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Una-Sana | Posavina | Tuzla | Zenica-Doboj | Bosnian Podrinje Goražde | Central Bosnia | Herzegovina-Neretva | West Herzegovina | Sarajevo | Canton 10 | Total won / Total contested | ||||
| 2014 | 0 / 30
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0 / 21
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0 / 35
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0 / 35
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0 / 25
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0 / 30
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0 / 30
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0 / 23
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0 / 35
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0 / 25
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0 / 289
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| 2018 | 0 / 30
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0 / 21
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0 / 35
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0 / 35
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0 / 25
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0 / 30
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1 / 30
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2 / 23
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0 / 35
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1 / 25
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4 / 289
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| 2022 | 0 / 30
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1 / 21
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0 / 35
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0 / 35
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0 / 25
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0 / 30
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2 / 30
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2 / 23
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0 / 35
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1 / 25
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6 / 289
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Croatian Parliament
edit| Year | # | Popular vote | % of popular vote | 11th district | Seat change | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3rd | 3,141 | 6.64% | 0 / 3
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New | on the MOST list |
| 2024 | 2nd | 2,684 | 11.05% | 0 / 3
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References
edit- ^ "MOST i HRS predstavili listu: "Borba za Hrvate u BiH i iseljeništvu"" [MOST and HRS presented the list: "Fight for Croats in BiH and diaspora"]. Dnevnik.ba (in Croatian). 12 June 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-12-31. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Mostar: Osnovana nova hrvatska stranka" [Mostar: A new Croatian party is founded]. Dnevno (in Croatian). 12 May 2014. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2021.