Croatian Social Democrats ( hr, Hrvatski socijaldemokrati), abbreviated HSD, is a minor

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. It came into existence in 2004 as a splinter party of the much more influential

Social Democratic Party of Croatia The Social Democratic Party of Croatia ( hr, Socijaldemokratska partija Hrvatske, SDP) is a social-democratic political party in Croatia. The SDP is anti-fascist, progressive, and strongly pro-European. The SDP was formed in 1990 as the succe ...

(SDP). HSD never won any seats in the general elections. Its only MP was Ivica Pančić who was elected to two consecutive terms in 2003 and 2007 on the

(SDP) ticket. While in office he resigned his SDP membership in January 2010 and spent eight months serving as an independent until joining HSD in September 2010.

History

For the 2007 election, HDS made an alliance with

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and Istrian Socialdemocratic Forum. The alliance got 9,884 votes. In August 2010 former SDP

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and minister of war veterans in the Račan government

Ivica Pančić Ivica is a Slavic names, Slavic masculine given name, a diminutive form of Ivan (name), Ivan. The direct English equivalent of the name is Johnny, while the equivalent of its augmentative Ivan is John. It is one of the frequent male given names in ...

announced he was "taking over" the Party. He left SDP after supporting

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, another SDP dissident in the presidential elections in January 2010. With Pančić joining, HSD became a parliamentary party.

Electoral history

References

External links

Official web site
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