Croatian Republican Party

Croatian Republican Party

Hrvatska republikanska stranka
Croatian Republican Party Hrvatska republikanska stranka
Abbreviation	HRS
President and founder	Slaven Raguž
Founded	11 May 2014; 10 years ago
Split from	Croatian Democratic Union 1990
Headquarters	Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 13; Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ideology	Conservatism; Christian democracy; Pro-Europeanism; Decentralization; Federalism;
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.org
	Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Political parties; Elections;

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]

History

The 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

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year	#	Popular vote	%	HoR	Seat change	HoP	Seat change	Government
2022	24th	11,231	0.71	0 / 42	New	0 / 15	New	Extra-parliamentary

Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year	#	Popular vote	HoR	Seat change	HoP	Seat change	Government
2018	18th	6,670	0 / 98	New	0 / 58	New	Extra-parliamentary
2022	15th	13,050	1 / 98	1	0 / 80	0	Opposition

Cantonal assembly elections

Cantonal election	Cantonal Assembly
Cantonal election	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	0 / 21	0 / 35	0 / 35	0 / 25	0 / 30	0 / 30	0 / 23	0 / 35	0 / 25	0 / 289
2018	0 / 30	0 / 21	0 / 35	0 / 35	0 / 25	0 / 30	1 / 30	2 / 23	0 / 35	1 / 25	4 / 289
2022	0 / 30	1 / 21	0 / 35	0 / 35	0 / 25	0 / 30	2 / 30	2 / 23	0 / 35	1 / 25	6 / 289

Croatian Parliament

Croatian Parliament
Year	#	Popular vote	% of popular vote	11th district	Seat change	Note
2020	3rd	3,141	6.64%	0 / 3	New	on the MOST list
2024	2nd	2,684	11.05%	0 / 3

References

^ "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.