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THE FEBRUARY PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND THE ATTEMPT TO REACTIVATE THE CROATIAN POPULAR PARTY (1923-1925)
Zlatko Matijević
; Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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The failure of the Croatian Popular Party (HPS) during the 1923 elections required its leaders to take steps to prevent the further decline of party support. Unwilling to accept the marginalization of the »populists« at the hands of Stjepan Radić and his party, i. e. Croatian Republican Peasants Party (HRSS), they undertook a great effort to propagate their program. As part of this effort, they organized local party branches, a party congress, and strengthened the party press. Radić's attempt to internationalize the Croatian question by joining his party to the Peasant International in Moscow, an organization formed by the bolsheviks, proved to be a major political blunder because it allowed the proponents of Great Serbianism to usher in anticommunist legislation, and under its provisions exclude the strongest Croatian political party who was running at the time the election campaign for the National Assembly. In spite of the HPS's disagreement with S. Radić, they did not support the state's policy even though that policy could benefit the HPS politically. Adopting their campaign for the February elections to the new political conditions, that is refusing to criticize the jailed S. Radić publicly, the »populists« were optimistic about their chances at the polis. Nevertheless, election results were disappointing for the HPS. Not only did they fail to win a single seat, they received fewer votes than in the previous election.
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213932
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Datum izdavanja:
3.12.1996.
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