Original scientific paper
»FOR CROATIANISM, CROSS AND PLOUGH!« - POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF THE CROATIAN PEOPLE'S PARTY FROM THE PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS IN FEBRUARY TO THE ELECTIONS IN SEPTEMBER (1925-1927)
Zlatko Matijević
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
After failure at the parliamentary elections in February, Croatian People's Party seemed to be definitely pushed to the margins of political life in Yugoslav state of that time. Political turn of Stjepan Radić and his entering the government enabled the leadership of Croatian People's Party to reactivate its weary organization. Followers of the Slovene People's Party supported eagerly the attempts of their Croatian political colleagues to reaffirm themselves on the political scene. The results of Croatian People's Party at the community and regional elections were a relevant indication of the increasing number of those Croatians who were ready to vote for the Croatian People's Party candidates. After an unsuccessful attempt to realize electoral cooperation with the members of the Third Croatian Block, the Party leadership went to the polis in September with its independent candidate list. Only one representative in the National Assembly of the Monarchy of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was a modest success of the Party followers in their competing with other political parties and groups. By entering the government of reverend Anton Korošec, Stjepan Barić delivered the Croatian People's Party a mortal blow. When, on January 20, 1929, the act about the formal dismissal of this Party was brought, it was just a delayed execution over already dead political organization.
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213994
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Publication date:
4.12.1997.
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