The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( hr, Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine or HDZ BiH) is a

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, representing the

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. It is an observer member of the

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(EPP). Its headquarters is in

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History

The party was formed on 18 August 1990, with the first party convention held in

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. It has participated in all multiparty elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1991. It regularly won the 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. Since 2014, the party has once again been in power. In the October 2002 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 national

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and 16 out of 98 seats in the Federal House of Representatives. In 2006, the party joined the

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, an alliance of Bosnian Croat political parties, along with the

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and the

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. Throughout its history, the HDZ BiH has had nine presidents, the current one being

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since 5 June 2005.Official biography
;accessed 8 September 2018. Four of the six Croat members of the

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have come from the party, the most recent one also being Čović, serving in office from 2014 until 2018. In the 2018 general election, the party was in a coalition with three other Bosnian Croat parties (

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), winning 149,872 or 9.05% of the votes, five out of 42 seats in the national House of Representatives and 16 out of 98 in the Federal one.

List of presidents

Elections

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Presidency elections

Cantonal elections

References

External links

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