The Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina ( hr, Demokratski savez Hrvata u Vojvodini, DSHV; sr-cyrl, Демократски савез Хрвата у Војводини; ДСХВ) is a
political party in
Serbia representing the
Croat ethnic minority in the province of
Vojvodina
Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capita ...
.
History
Over time, some party members were unsatisfied with party's policy, so they separated and formed new Croat parties:
* Hrvatski narodni savez (
Croatian National Alliance) – in 1998 (this fraction has been reincorporated into DSHV on February 29, 2004)
* Hrvatska bunjevačko-šokačka stranka (
Croatian Bunjevac-Šokac Party)
* Demokratska zajednica Hrvata (
Democratic Union of Croats) – in 2007
In 2009 DSHV negotiated with another ethnic Croat party from
Syrmia region of Vojvodina, the Hrvatska srijemska inicijativa / Hrvatska sremska inicijativa (
Croatian Syrmian Initiative
Croatian Syrmian Initiative ( hr, Hrvatska srijemska inicijativa, sr-cyrl, Хрватска сријемска иницијатива, Hrvatska srijemska inicijativa, HSI) was a political party in Serbia representing the Croat ethnic minority ...
). It was planned that HSI and DSHV unite on June 5, 2009 on the meeting in
Sremska Mitrovica.
It has occasionally condemned attacks by
Serbian nationalists
Serbian nationalism asserts that Serbs are a nation and promotes the cultural and political unity of Serbs. It is an ethnic nationalism, originally arising in the context of the general rise of nationalism in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, un ...
, and it has issued protests over
ethnic assimilation. It is also supportive of further
autonomism
Autonomism, also known as autonomist Marxism is an anti-capitalist left-wing political and social movement and theory. As a theoretical system, it first emerged in Italy in the 1960s from workerism (). Later, post-Marxist and anarchist tende ...
.
List of presidents
*Bela Tonković (1990–2003)
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Petar Kuntić (2003–2015)
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Tomislav Žigmanov (2015–present)
Electoral performance
Parliamentary elections
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References
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Croats of Vojvodina
Croat political parties in Serbia
Politics of Vojvodina
Political parties established in 1990
1990 establishments in Serbia
Political parties in Yugoslavia