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Page created: 30th June 1996 Last updated: 16th May 2009
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Croatia - Political Flags

• Action of Social-democrats of Croatia, ASH
  • ASH, 1990 - 199x
• Democratic Action of the People of Croatia, DAN
• Democratic Centre, DC
• Croatian Christian Democrats, Demokršćani
• Croatian Pure Party of Rights, HČSP
• Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ
  • HDZ, 199x
  • Youth of Croatian Democratic Union, MHDZ
• Croatian True Revival, HIP
• Croatian Christian-democratic union, HKDU
• Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats, HNS
• Croatian Popular Party, HPS
• Croatian Bloc - Movement for Modern Croatia, Hrvatski blok
• Croatian Social Democrats, HSD
• Croatian Social Liberal Party, HSLS
• Croatian Party of Rights, HSP
• Croatian Party of Rights 1861, HSP 1861
• Croatian Peasant Party, HSS
• Croatian Party of Pensioners, HSU
• Liberal Party, LS
• Liberal Democrats, LIBRA, 2002 - 2005
• Međimujer Party, MS
• Party of Podunavlje Serbs, PPS
• Slavonia and Baranja Croatian Party, S-BHS
• Party of democratic action of Croatia, SDA Hrvatske
• Social Democratic Party of Croatia, SDH, 1989 – 1994
• Social Democratic Party of Croatia, SDP
  • SDP, 1990 - 2004
• Independent Serb Democratic Party, SDSS
  • Independent Serb Democratic Party, 1995 – 2001
• League of Communists of Croatia, SKH, 1963 – 1990
• Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia, SRP
• Association of Trade Unions of Croatia, SSH, – 1990
• Association of Independent Trade Unions of Croatia, SSSH
• Zagorje Democratic Party, ZDS
• Croatian Green Party - Ecological Alliance, Zeleni

Flag of the political parties in modern societies are very often changed and tend to be much based on logos and political campaigns at the moment. The political parties themselves change, enter into coalitions and unions with others, fraction and split or disappear altogether. Here are presented some of the party flags in current use in Croatia and those that have been used earlier. Also the trade unions' flags are shown here.

• Croatia

Action of Social-democrats of Croatia, ASH

Akcija socijaldemokrata Hrvatske

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Red-white-blue tricolour with wider white stripe with the party emblem in the middle. The emblem is an oval seal outlined in red abnd blue with the name of the party in balck along the perimeter and in line in base and the initials ASH in red letters in the middle.

ASH, 1990 - 199x

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Red-white-blue tricolour with wider white stripe in which is set four coloured clover. It seems that the flag fell in disuse in late 1990's.

Democratic Action of the People of Croatia, DAN

Demokratska akcija naroda Hrvatske

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The flag is light blue over green divded in a large wave with a yellow disk in the middle containing the blue bordered white initials DAN.

The party was formed in 2003.

Democratic Centre, DC

Demokratski centar

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White flag with the party emblem in the middle - letters DC of red and blue with chequy design and below black inscribed the full name of the party.

The party was formed in 2000 by secession of a part of the members of HDZ.

Croatian Christian Democrats, Demokršćani

Hrvatski demokršćani

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White flag with the party emblem in the middle. The emblem consists of a red Glogolitic letter "dobro" (D) above a red line and a blue inscription of the name of the party.

The party was formed in 2000.

Croatian Pure Party of Rights, HČSP

Hrvatska čista stranka prava

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White flag with the party emblem in the middle. The emblem consists of a shield divided per bend sinistre, the first chequy argent and gules and the second blue with a silver wattle overall. The shield is boredered golden and opped red and above it are the initials HČSP in balck letters, the diacritic over Č made as a rotated red square.

The party was established in 1992.

Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ

Hrvatska demokratska zajednica

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Light blue flag with the party emblem in the middle above the acronym logo. The emblem consist of a letter H composed of red and blue squares and white triple wattle forming stylized letters D and Z. The logo is of blue oblique letters HDZ with red tilted square in initial top corner.

The party was formed in 1989 and won on the first multy-party elections in Croatia.

HDZ, 199x

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In early years of the party the flag was used on a silver (shiny metallic) field.

Youth of Croatian Democratic Union, MHDZ

Mladež Hrvatske demokratske zajednice

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Youth organization of the party set it's logo consisting of adapted party emblem (coloured letter H) and word mladež! (youth) in the middle of a flag filed composed of white and grey cheques of artistic design.

Croatian True Revival, HIP

Hrvatski istinski preporod

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The flag is white with the party emblem in the middle above the abbreviation HIP. The emblem consists of two interlaced rotated voided squares, the top red one and the bottom white bordered blue.

The party was formed in 2002 by secession of a part of the members of HDZ.

Croatian Christian-democratic union, HKDU

Hrvatska kršćansko-demokratska unija

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The party uses light blue flag with the party emblem in the middle, the elements combining the Croatian chequy shield and the Christian cross. Beneath the emblem is the abbreviation HKDU and in the base inscription HRVATSKI DEMOKRŠĆANI (Croatian Christian-Democrats).

The party was established in 1992.

Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats, HNS

Hrvatska narodna stranka - Liberalni demokrati

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The party flag is the Croatian tricolour, with the white stripe artistically shown. Similar flag was 1990 proposal for the Croatian flag by Boris Ljubičić.

The party was formed as HNS in 1990. In 2005 it was merged with Liberal Democrats (LIBRA) changing the name.

Croatian Popular Party, HPS

Hrvatska pučka stranka

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The party flag is vertical light blue with the white lower quarter and with the party emblem in the middle. The emblem consist of a circular inscription with the name of the party, the initials in the middle over tricolour falmes and red squares in the base.

The party was established in 1997.

Croatian Bloc - Movement for Modern Croatia, Hrvatski blok

Hrvatski blok - pokret za modernu Hrvatsku

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The Statutes define the party flag to be simply the tricolour of red over white over blue. However, a flag of light blue with the party emblem and inscription was used instead. The embelm consists of a white square field with five red squares compsed so as to form a stylized letter H.

The party was formed in 2000 by secession of a part of the members of HDZ.

Croatian Social Democrats, HSD

Hrvatski socijaldemokrati

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The flag is red with the white initials HSD in the middle and the inscription "hrvatski socijaldemokrati" in the canton.

The party was established in 2004 seceeding from SDP.

Croatian Social Liberal Party, HSLS

Hrvatska socijalno-liberalna stranka

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The flag is yellow with party emblem in the middle above the blue initials HSLS. The emblem consists of three superimposed rotated squares, with word liberali in white script.

The party was formed in 1989. In 2000 together with SDP was in the government for a mandate.

Croatian Party of Rights, HSP

Hrvatska stranka prava

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The flag is Croatian tricolour with party emblem in the middle - emblem consisting of a shield divided by a white bend sinister with balck letters HSP, the upper field being chequy red and white and lower field is blue. The shield is topped with triple wattle ornament.

The flag is used in variations since 1861, abandoned after the virtual dissolving of the party in 1941. The party was re-established in 1990 and readopted the flag. In year 2000 the party changed the visual identity, but the flag was not changed.

Croatian Party of Rights 1861, HSP 1861

Hrvatska stranka prava 1861

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The flag is virtually equal to the flag of HSP with the year 1861 added.

The party is formed in 1995 as a fraction of HSP.

Croatian Peasant Party, HSS

Hrvatska seljačka stranka

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The flag is Croatian tricolour with party emblem in the middle. The emblem is the Croatian chequy shield bordered with gold, surrounded with two tricolours and topped with greed field with golden initials HSS.

The party was established in the beginning of 20th century, changing name during the first quarter of the century. In 1941 it was dissolved, though a small part was active in Tito's partisan movement and it was active for a short time after 1945. The party was re-established in 1990.

Croatian Party of Pensioners, HSU

Hrvatska stranka umirovljenika

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The flag is not prescribed by the Statutse - it is used as white with the party emblem in the middle above a red line with the full name of the party inscribed beneath it. The emblem consists of blue initials HSU with a red square in the last letter and a dove flying above those.

The party was established in 1996 and entered the Parliament for the first time in 2004.

Liberal Party, LS

Liberalna stranka

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The flag is blue with yellow stripe forming the letter L. The party was formed from parts fractioning from HSLS, and retained the liberal colours of blue and yellow.

Liberal Democrats, LIBRA, 2002 - 2005

Stranka liberalnih demokrata

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The flag is blue with the pary emblem in the lower half. The emblem is a yellow square with rounded corners containing a blue Glagolitic letter L and inscription LIBRA beneath it.

The party was formed in 2002 by secession from the HSLS, and already in 2005 merged with HNS.

Međimujer Party, MS

Međimurska stranka

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The flag is vertically divided yellow and green with the party emblem in the middle. The emblem is a shield per fess vert and or overall three wavy bars azure the middle one in sinister field only. The shield represents the Međimuje highlands (green) and lowlads with wheat (yellow) and the three main rivers - Drava, Mura and Trnava.

The party was established in 2001.

Party of Podunavlje Serbs, PPS

Partija podunavskih Srba

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The flag is blue with emblem in the middle consisting of a red rectangle with two addorsed letters P topped with yellow semicircle with 12 blue stars in circle in the name of the party below them. Image is based on the description in the Statute.

Slavonia and Baranja Croatian Party, S-BHS

Slavonsko-baranjska hrvatska stranka

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The flag is white with the party emblem in the middle. The emblem consists of a rotated square with a red square at top and a blue at the bottom and the running marten in the middle and with the bold initials to the side with the hyphen as a red rotated square.

The party was established in 1992.

Party of democratic action of Croatia, SDA Hrvatske

Stranka demokratske akcije Hrvatske

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The flag is green white green, the white stripe bearing of the triple width of each of the green stripes, with a green crescent whose horns touch vertical line one third of the flag length from the hoist.

Social Democratic Party of Croatia, SDH, 1989 – 1994

Socijaldemokratska stranka Hrvatske

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The flag is the Croatian tricolour with the party emblem in the middle, consisting of initials SDH and a red rose. White flag with the emblem was also occasionally in use. The flag was abandoned in 1994 when the party merged with SDP.

Social Democratic Party of Croatia, SDP

Socijaldemokratska partija Hrvatske

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The flag is white with the party emblem consisting of a red square red with white slanted initials SDP, set twice in the fly forming a chequy pattern. In the hoist part, along the top the name of the party is inscribed in small balck letters.

SDP, 1990 - 2004

The flag is white with the party emblem consisting of three squares red, blue and green and black initials SDP. Below the initials sometimes is inscribed in miniature letters full name of the party.

The party is established in 1990 as sucessor to the League of Communist s of Croatia, first named SKH-SDP and soon just SDP. It organized the first multiparty elesctions. It was in government 2000-2004 leadiang a coalition of several parties. In 2004 the party modernized its symbols, introducing a new flag.

Independent Serb Democratic Party, SDSS

Samostalna demokratska srpska stranka

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The flag is light blue with the party emblem in the canton and the full name of the party inscribed along the fly endge in Latin in red slightly overlapping Cyrillic blue letters. The party emblem is a white rectangular panel bordered blue and red containing the party initials in Latin red and in Cyrillic blue letters, red slightly overlapping the blue and a symbol consisting of two stylized Cyrillic letters S, one red and the other blue, forming the Latin letter S.

Independent Serb Democratic Party, 1995 – 2001

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The flag used until 2001 was the Serb tricolour with golden emblem consisting of the party initials in Cyrillic letters. The party is formed in Serb held territories of Croatia during the time of transitional international government in 1995 by the parts of Serb Democratic Party (SDS) willing to undergo changes, and continued to work in Republic of Croatia after reintegration of the regions. The emblem is based on SDS emblem with additional letter S below.

League of Communists of Croatia, SKH, 1963 – 1990

Savez komunista Hrvatske

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The leading (and only) party of the socialist Croatia within Yugoslavia was member of Yugoslav League of Communists, and the pattern of the flag followed - the only difference being the small initials below the star. In theory the flag with inscriptions in any language of the peoples living in Croatia could be used, though in practice it was mostly only the Croatian inscription.

Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia, SRP

Socijalistička radnička partija Hrvatske

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The flag is red with golden initials of the party in canton and golden outlined five-pointed star in the middle, much in line with other leftist parties and movements in the world.

Association of Trade Unions of Croatia, SSH, – 1990

Savez sindikata Hrvatske

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The flag is red with golden pentagonal emblem containing symbols – a sickle, a hammer, a torch, a cog wheel and corn ears.

Association of Independent Trade Unions of Croatia, SSSH

Savez samostalnih sindikata Hrvatske

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The flag is light green with shield-like emblem in the middle. The shield is lined blue with white border and green field with stylized red rooster, and in white chief initials SSSH and chequy pattern.

Zagorje Democratic Party, ZDS

Zagorska Demokratska Stranka

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The flag is tricolour of red over white over blue divided in wavy lines and overall the party emblem consisting of the initials ZDS in shades of green and two red squares. The wavy lines are said to represent the low hills of Zagorje region.

The party is established in 1997.

Croatian Green Party - Ecological Alliance, Zeleni

Hrvatska stranka zelenih - Eko savez

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The flag is green with a white rhombus containing the party emblem. The emblem consists of a downpointing triangle with 9 pieces chequy field and an oak tree growing from it. To its left is the name of the party and to the right is the year 1996.

The party was established in 1996.

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