Parliamentary elections will be held this Sunday in Croatia, and the ruling HDZ party is expected to win broad support from Croat residents of BiH, as well as the broader Croat diaspora. Since being granted the right to vote in Croatia’s elections in 1999, Bosnian Croats have routinely backed the HDZ, due in large part to the dominance of the party’s BiH branch.
Over time, the votes of the 11th electoral unit, representing the diaspora, have become a fiefdom of the HDZ, to the point where the main leftwing Social Democratic Party, SDP, does not even field candidates for the 11th unit.
Around 34,800 Bosnian Croats are registered as having the right to vote in Sunday’s elections, Pero Bilusic, first secretary of the Croatian embassy in Bosnia, told the Bosnian news agency FENA on Wednesday.
