Authentic Croatian Peasant Party

Authentic Croatian Peasant Party Autohtona hrvatska seljačka stranka

Leader	Stanko Grčić
Founded	14 March 2007 (2007-03-14)
Headquarters	Zagreb, Croatia
Membership (2015)	ca. 8000^[1]
Ideology	Social conservatism Green conservatism Agrarianism
Political position	Centre
National affiliation	Croatia is Growing
European affiliation	None
International affiliation	None
Colours	Green
Sabor	0 / 151
European Parliament	0 / 11
Website
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The Authentic Croatian Peasant Party (Croatian: Autohtona hrvatska seljačka stranka) is a centre-right political party in Croatia.

History

Authentic Croatian Peasant Party was founded in Zagreb on 14 March 2007.^[2] First party president was Jasenko Stipac.^[3]

The party refers to the tradition of Stjepan Radić's HPSS.

According to the Party's statute "it is in particular committed to the promotion of the interests of farmers, workers, and intelligence of the Croatian nation". Party's values are "honesty, faith, family, patriotism and labor."

Ahead of the 2015 parliamentary election the party joined the ruling centre to centre-left Kukuriku coalition led by the Social Democratic Party of Croatia.

General election

Election	In coalition with	Votes won	Percentage	Total seats won	Change
2007 (November)	None	7,850		0 / 153
2011 (December)	SP	13,493		0 / 151

European Parliament

Election	In coalition with	Votes won	Percentage	Total seats won	Change
April 2013	None	6,785^[4]	0,92%	0 / 12
May 2014	Alliance for Croatia	63,437^[5]	6,88%	0 / 11

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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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