Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights

{{About|the contemporary political party founded in 2005|similarly named parties|Croatian Party of Rights (disambiguation)}}

{{primary sources|date=December 2011}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights

| native_name = Autohtona-Hrvatska stranka prava

| logo = AHSP.png

| colorcode = {{party color|Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights}}

| leader = {{ill|Dražen Keleminec|hr}}

| foundation = 2005

| ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap|

|Croatian nationalism

|Neo-Nazism

|Social conservatism

|Anti-communism

|Euroscepticism}}

| position = Far-right

| headquarters = Zagreb

| website = http://hrvatskipravasi.hr/

| international =

| country = Croatia

}}

The Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights ({{langx|hr|Autohtona-Hrvatska stranka prava}} or A-HSP) is a far-right, socially conservative political party in Croatia, founded in Koprivnica in 2005, after the merging of Croatian Rightists and Croatian Right Movement. The goal of the Movement is to unite all "rightist" parties in Croatia such as the HSP, the HSP 1861, the HČSP and others. It was very critical of the HSP's political positions until 2009.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

A-HSP is pro-life and advocates against gay marriage as well as in support of motherhood, children and youth, people of special needs, and the nature.{{clarify|date=November 2023}} It is strongly against Croatian accession to EU and NATO and advocates for irredentism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bay of Kotor, Syrmia, and Bačka.[http://www.hrvatskipravasi.hr/index.php?id=m&lnk=2 HP - HPP, Hrvatski pravaši]

The party changed its name from United Supporters of the Croatian Party of Rights Movement to Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights in 2009.

In 2010, the A-HSP publicly burned a copy of the Serb minority publication Novosti, whose headquarters had to be protected by the police for a week.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

In the 2013 European Parliament election, A-HSP received 2,350 votes (0.32%), which was not enough to gain a seat.

In 2015, the Croatian Minister of the Interior, Ranko Ostojić, banned the party's rally at Zagreb's Ban Jelačić Square.{{Cite web|last=Romić|first=Tea|date=26 February 2015|title=Ostojić zabranio skup A-HSP-a. Iz stranke odgovaraju: Svejedno dolazimo!|url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/zabranjen-javni-prosvjed-autohtone-hrvatske-stranke-prava-991944|url-status=live|access-date=26 July 2021|website=Večernji list|language=hr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903031528/https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/zabranjen-javni-prosvjed-autohtone-hrvatske-stranke-prava-991944 |archive-date=2017-09-03 }}

In 2017, the party organized a march through the Croatian capital in order to show their support and declare allegiance to then-recently elected American president Donald Trump. During the march, the party's members, dressed in black uniforms, were waving flags of the German neo-Nazi National Democratic Party and of the United States while shouting the Ustaša salute Za dom spremni. After the rally, the party's leader {{ill|Dražen Keleminec|hr}} was arrested by the police for disturbing the public peace and quiet. The Government of Croatia condemned the rally the same day for promoting Ustašism and Nazism.{{Cite web|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/hrvatska/pristase-a-hsp-a-marsirali-zagrebom-uhicen-drazen-keleminec-1152319|title=Keleminca uhitili usred skupa na kojem je veličao nacizam}} The following day, the U.S. embassy in Zagreb reacted by publishing a statement in which they strongly condemned the march and rejected any attempts to connect the U.S. with Ustaša ideology.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/americka-ambasada-ostro-osudila-mars-crnokosuljasa-u-zagrebu-ne-povezujte-sad-s-ovom-mrskom-ideologijom/5691115/|title = Jutarnji list - AMERIČKA AMBASADA OŠTRO OSUDILA MARŠ CRNOKOŠULJAŠA U ZAGREBU 'Ne povezujte SAD s ovom mrskom ideologijom!'|date = 27 February 2017}}

In April 2018, the leader of the party, Dražen Keleminec, was arrested near the former concentration camp Jasenovac for disturbing public peace and quiet, and insulting police officers.{{Cite news|url=http://hr.n1info.com/a296613/Vijesti/Keleminec-na-putu-u-Jasenovac-priveden-uz-upotrebu-sile.html|title=Keleminec krenuo prema Jasenovcu, policija ga privela uz upotrebu sile|work=N1 HR|access-date=2018-04-22|language=hr|archive-date=2018-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107042802/http://hr.n1info.com/a296613/Vijesti/Keleminec-na-putu-u-Jasenovac-priveden-uz-upotrebu-sile.html|url-status=dead}}

Election results

=Legislative=

class="wikitable"

|+

!Election

!In coalition with

!Votes

!Percentage

!Seats won

!Change

!Government

2011

|None

|5,768

|0.25%

|{{Composition bar|0|151}}

|New

|{{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

2015

|None

|12,027

|0.55%

|{{Composition bar|0|151}}

|{{Steady}} 0

|{{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

2016

|None

|6,276

|0.33%

|{{Composition bar|0|151}}

|{{Steady}} 0

|{{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

2020

|None

|5,343

|0.32%

|{{Composition bar|0|151}}

|{{Steady}} 0

|{{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

2024

|None

|6,291

|0.30%

|{{Composition bar|0|151}}

|{{Steady}} 0

|{{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

=European Parliament=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
rowspan=2 | Election

! rowspan=2 | List leader

! rowspan=2 | Coalition

! Votes

! %

! Seats

! +/–

! rowspan=2 | EP Group

colspan=2 | {{small|Coalition}}

! colspan=2 | {{small|A-HSP}}

2013

| Diana Kobas Dešković

| None

| 2,350

| 0.32 (#26)

| {{Composition bar|0|12|hex={{party color|Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights}}}}

| New

| rowspan=4 | –

2014

| rowspan=3 | Dražen Keleminec

| None

| 3,455

| 0.37 (#14)

| {{Composition bar|0|11|{{party color|Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights}}}}

| {{steady}} 0

2019

| None

| 4,391

| 0.40 (#18)

| {{Composition bar|0|12|{{party color|Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights}}}}

| {{steady}} 0

2024

| None

| 1,402

| 0.19 (#16)

| {{Composition bar|0|12|{{party color|Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights}}}}

| {{steady}} 0

References

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