Stranka prava u Dalmaciji krajem XIX. i početkom XX. stoljeća
The Party of Right in Dalmatia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century

Author(s): Marjan DIKLIĆ
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Party of Right; Party of Pure Right; National Party of Croatia; Croatian Party; Dalmatia; politics of the “new course”; Austro-Hungarian Monarchy;
Summary/Abstract: Even though ‘Rightist’ ideas first appear in Dalmatia at the end of the 1860s and the beginning of the 1870s, and the first ‘Rightist’ groupings in the 1880s and early 1890s, it is not until the summer of 1894 that the Dalmatian Party of Right is founded. Following Prodan’s religious-‘Rightist’ group, which appears at the beginning of the 1880s, Trumbić-Supilo’s liberal-‘Rightist’ group appears in the mid- 1880s, and then at the beginning of the 1890s Biankini’s Croatian Club is formed. These three ‘Rightist’ groups come together at a founding conference in Zadar on 22 August 1894 to create a united Party of Right in Dalmatia. At its head sat a 16 member Central Committee, to which were subordinated three regional commit-tees for north, central, and southern Dalmatia as well as several urban committees and party commissioners. The first president of the Central Committee and the Party of Right in Dalmatia was Rev. Josip Kažimir Ljubić. Following its foundation and organization throughout the region the party actively takes part in the elections for local government, the Dalmatian Sabor, and the Imperial Council in Vienna. At all three levels of government, the Party of Right achieved good results, becoming the second party in Dalmatia in terms of political strength and number of representatives. A few years after the split in the party in Croatia-Slavonia, a similar split occurs among the Dalmatia ‘Rightists’ leading to the creation of the Party of Pure Right in 1898, in which Don Ivo Prodan played a leading role. Unlike this party, which remained on the sidelines rejecting the politics of the “new course,” the bulk of the Dalmatian Party of Right, led by Trumbić, Supilo, and Biankini, set in motion a new politics in Croatia in the spring of 1905 in Split by uniting with the remnants of the old National Party to form the Croatian Party.

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