Uloga pravaša u osvajanju općinske uprave u Dubrovniku 1890.–1899.
The Role of the ‘Rightists’ in taking over the municipal administration in Dubrovnik, 1890–1899

Author(s): Ivo Perić
Subject(s): Public Administration, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, 19th Century
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Dubrovnik; municipal administration; coalition; ‘Rightists’; Nationalists; Supilo; Čingrija; elections;
Summary/Abstract: The first prominent ‘Rightists’ in Dubrovnik during the last decade of the 19th century were Ivan Matešan and Stjepan Čubretovic, instructors at the gymnasium, as well as Roko Mišetić, a doctor at the hospital. Their political activities were taken up and further expanded by Frano Supilo, at onetime the prefect of the agricultural department in Gruž, and later the founder, publisher, and editor of the ‘Rightist’ Dubrovnik weekly Crvena Hrvatska. In cooperation with Pero Čingrija, the Dubrovnik leader of the National Croat Party, Supilo aimed his political activity squarely at the coalition of the pro-Italian and Serbian parties, who since 1890 had dominated the municipal administration in Dubrovnik, negating the Croatian identity of Dubrovnik and directing it away from Croatian political ideas. This vehement struggle culminated in 1899, when the municipal administration in Dubrovnik came into the hands of Supilo’s ‘Rightists’ and Čingrija’s Nationalists, advocates of Croatian political ideas. The ‘Rightists’ proved to be the deciding factor in this struggle, who by their determination and conviction maintained the course and intensity of the struggle.

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