Croatian Civic Party

Croatian Civic Party

Leader	Željko Kerum
Founded	25 September 2009 (2009-09-25)^[1]
Headquarters	Split, Croatia
Ideology	Right-wing populism
Political position	Right-wing
European affiliation	None
Sabor	0 / 151
European Parliament	0 / 12
Website
www.hgs.com.hr
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Croatian Civic Party (Croatian: Hrvatska građanska stranka or HGS) is a right-wing political party in Croatia. It was established in September 2009 by Željko Kerum, an entrepreneur and mayor of Split after he won the mayoral elections as an independente candidate. During his mayoral campaign he often criticized political parties. Between 2009-2013 it was the ruling party in the city of Split in coalition with the far-right Croatian Pure Party of Rights (HČSP).^[2]^[3] Having lost Split in the 2013 local elections, the party still has two representatives in the Croatian Parliament.

For the 2011 elections the party formed a pre-election coalition with the Croatian Democratic Union for the two Dalmatian constituencies and won 2 seats in the parliament for himself and his sister Nevenka Bečić.^[4]^[5] In the parliamentary 2015 elections, the party won only 2234 votes in the two Dalmatian constituencies and became a non-parliamentary party^[6]

References

External links

Official website (Croatian)

Political parties in Croatia

Sabor

Government	Croatian Democratic Union (49) Bridge of Independent Lists (15) Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević (3) Croatian Peasant Party (2) Croatian Social Liberal Party (2) Milan Bandić 365 - The Party of Labour and Solidarity (2) Bloc of Pensioners Together (1) Croatian Growth (1) Croatian Christian Democratic Party (1)

Opposition	Social Democratic Party (42) Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (11) Labour Party (3) Istrian Democratic Assembly (3) Croatian Dialogue Initiative (3) Croatian Party of Pensioners (2) Independent Democratic Serb Party (2) Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja (2) People's Party - Reformists (1) Human Shield (1)

European Parliament

Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) (4)
Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) (2)
Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS) (1)
Istrian Democratic Assembly (1)
Conservative Party (HKS) (1)
Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) (1)
Independent Davor Škrlec (1)

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