Slovenska ljudska stranka i Hrvati od 1918. do 1926.
Slovenian People's Party and its Relations with Croatian Politics, 1918-1926

Summary/Abstract: The Slovenian-Croatian political contacts after the World War I were marked by the cooperation of Slovenians and Croatians and their disputes that were mostly influenced by two political parties – the Slovenian People’s Party and Croatian Republican Peasant’s Party and their prominent leaders. Slovenian People’s Party wished to spread the activity of its organization to the whole territory of the kingdom. Slovenian People’s Party wanted to achieve this through it’s ally Croatian People’s Party, but it was not successful. Croatian People’s Party never managed to get a wide electoral support, was loosing its supporters and stayed without a representative in the Parliament after the 1923 elections. Thus there were no representatives in the Yugoslav club. Croatian politicians used this against the Yugoslav club when its representatives wanted to speak for Slovenes and Croatians in the Parliament. In 1925 the Croatian People’s Party rejected cooperation with Slovenian People’s Party in the pre-electoral agitation, because it did not agree with the politics of the Slovenian People’s Party. The political contacts between the Slovenian People’s Party and the Croatian People’s Party were again established after the agreement, signed between the Radicals and the Radić’s when the Slovenian People’s Party seized to cooperate with the Croatian Republican People’s Party that was the main political opponent to the Croatian People’s Party. Dr. Anton Korošec, a leading Slovenian politician, acted an important role in the act of funding and in the actions of the Croatian People’s Party and thus left a vivid sign in the Croatian history. Some rejected his role but it is a fact that it was just because of his role that he was involved in a conflict with other Croatian party’s representatives. This article presents the impact of the Slovenian People’s Party on the Croatian People’s Party from the 1918 to the year 1926 and the cooperation of the two mentioned parties. It shows also the role of dr. Anton Korošec who cooperated with the Croatian People’s Party from the beginning and was because of this a target of many attacks of different Croatian political parties.

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