Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina

The Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina (Croatian: Demokratski savez Hrvata u Vojvodini, abbrev. DSHV; Serbian: Демократски савез Хрвата у Војводини) is a political party in Serbia, representing the Croat ethnic minority in the province of Vojvodina.^[1]

Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina Demokratski savez Hrvata u Vojvodini Демократски савез Хрвата у Војводини
Abbreviation	DSHV
Leader	Tomislav Žigmanov
Founded	15 July 1990 (1990-07-15)
Registered	23 August 1990
Headquarters	Beogradski put 31, Subotica
Ideology	Croat minority interests Vojvodina autonomism
International affiliation	Federal Union of European Nationalities
Colours	Red   White   Blue
National Assembly	0 / 250
Assembly of Vojvodina	0 / 120
City Assembly of Subotica	3 / 67
Website
dshv.rs
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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 29 February 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 the Syrmia region of Vojvodina, the Hrvatska srijemska inicijativa / Hrvatska sremska inicijativa (Croatian Syrmian Initiative). It was planned that HSI and DSHV would unite on 5 June 2009 at a meeting in Sremska Mitrovica.^[2]

It has occasionally condemned attacks by Serbian nationalists, and it has issued protests over ethnic assimilation.^[3][4] It is also supportive of further autonomism.^[5]

List of presidents

• Bela Tonković (1990–2003)
• Petar Kuntić (2003–2015)
• Tomislav Žigmanov (2015–present)

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

National Assembly of Serbia

Year	Leader	Popular vote	% of popular vote	#	# of seats	Seat change	Coalition	Status
1990	Bela Tonković	23,630	0.49%	16th	1 / 250	1	–	Opposition
1992		17,622	0.40%	13th	0 / 250	1	–	Extra-parliamentary
1993		3,946	0.10%	23rd	0 / 250	0	–	Extra-parliamentary
1997		5,375	0.14%	18th	0 / 250	0	–	Extra-parliamentary
2000		did not participate			0 / 250	0	–	Extra-parliamentary
2003	Petar Kuntić	161,765	4.29%	7th	0 / 250	0	ZZT	Extra-parliamentary
2007		915,854	23.08%	2nd	1 / 250	1	DSHV–DS–SDP	Support
2008		1,590,200	39.25%	1st	1 / 250	0	ZES	Support
2012		863,294	23.09%	2nd	1 / 250	0	IZBŽ	Opposition
2014		216,634	6.23%	3rd	0 / 250	1	DSHV–DS–Nova–BS–USS Sloga	Extra-parliamentary
2016	Tomislav Žigmanov	227,589	6.20%	5th	1 / 250	1	DSHV–DS–Nova–RS–ZZS–ZZŠ	Opposition
2020		30,591	0.99%	13th	0 / 250	1	UDS	Extra-parliamentary
2022		24,024	0.65%	14th	1 / 250	1	DSHV–ZZV	Government
2023		29,066	0.78%	11th	0 / 250	1	DSHV–SPP	Government

References

1. Political handbook of the world 2012. Tom Lansford. Los Angeles: Sage. 2012. p. 1258. ISBN 978-1-4522-3434-2. OCLC 794595888.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
2. (in Croatian) Radio Subotica Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Završni pregovori oko ujedinjenja DSHV-a s Hrvatskom srijemskom inicijativom, 21 April 2009
3. "Election Year in Serbia Must Not Start With a Campaign of Violence against Minorities". YIHR.rs. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
4. "Croats in Vojvodina concerned over ultra-nationalism in Serbia". The Voice of Croatia. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
5. Vance, Charles (2006). Managing a global workforce : challenges and opportunities in international human resource management. Yongsun Paik. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. p. 424. ISBN 978-0-7656-2016-3. OCLC 169862710.

External links

• (in Croatian) Official website
• "Reorganizacija i konsolidiranje stranke - prioriteti". Hrvatska riječ (in Croatian). 5 September 2003. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
• "Osnovan forum žena Cro Femina" (in Serbian). Subotica.info. 26 October 2007. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
• "Pero Kuntić: Bunjevci su dio hrvatskog korpusa". Globus (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.