The Croatian Demochristian Party ( Croatian : Hrvatska demokršćanska stranka or HDS ) is a Christian democratic political party in Croatia .
6-554: It was formed in 2009 from a merger of three minor Christian Democratic parties: Presidents of these three parties — Ante Ledić , Petar Kaćunko and Goran Dodig — signed a treaty that allowed for the Croatian Christian Democratic Party to be founded on 21 February 2009 in Zagreb . The founders of the party said that their goal is to change the ideals of Croatia so that Croats will not care solely about
12-416: Is a Croatian businessman, politician from and vice-president of Croatian Christian Democratic Party . In his youth, Ledić was a Yugoslav champion and national record holder in long jump and decathlon . His decathlon personal best, set in 1961, makes him the all-time top ten Croatian decathlete as of 2020 . He has never been a member of a political party, but he was very close to Franjo Tuđman and
18-467: The Christian Democrat parties of Western Europe, although, due to specific circumstances of early 1990s Croatia, it had more right-wing than centre-right rhetoric. In the 1990 Croatian parliamentary election , it joined the bloc of moderate nationalists called Coalition of People's Accord . Like all parties of that bloc, it fared badly; however, one year later, it had a ministerial post in
24-413: The "National Unity" government of Franjo Gregurić . In the 1992 Croatian parliamentary election , HKDS, running on its own ticket, failed to enter Croatian Parliament, while its leader Ivan Cesar finished seventh in the presidential race. This fiasco led HKDS to unite with Croatian Democratic Party (HDS) into Croatian Christian Democratic Union . The dissident faction of HKDS continued to operate under
30-501: The material realm, but also about spiritual and moral values. Also, Kaćunko said that the party will care for the general good, not for the interests of one man. The president of the party is Goran Dodig, and there are two vice-presidents are Ante Ledić and Petar Kaćunko. Since November 2023, HDS is a member party of the European People's Party . The Croatian Christian Democratic Party was created in 1990 and modelled after
36-776: The party's old name. Party of Croatian Renaissance was a regional political party in Split-Dalmatia County of Croatia that splintered from the Croatian Social Liberal Party and was named after the Croatian Spring . Croatian Christian Democrats was a minor right-wing conservative political party that was founded in 2002. HDZ - HSLS – HDSSB (10th el. district) 621,035 (HDZ coal.) 37.26% (HDZ coal.) Ante Ledi%C4%87 Ante Ledić (born 13 October 1939 in Aržano )
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