Croatian Liberation Movement

Croatian Liberation Movement Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret
President	Ljubomir Vlašić
Founder	Ante Pavelić
Founded	8 June 1956 (established in Buenos Aires); 9 October 1991 (registered as a political party in Croatia)
Headquarters	Zagreb, Croatia
Membership (2010)	650[1]
Ideology	Croatian nationalism Anti-communism Euroscepticism
Political position	Far-right
International affiliation	World League for Freedom and Democracy
Sabor	0 / 151
European Parliament	0 / 11
County Prefects	0 / 21
Mayors	0 / 128

The Croatian Liberation Movement (Croatian: Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret, HOP) is a minor far-right political party in Croatia.

HOP was formed by Croatians in exile. Ustaše was movement with nationalistic ideas. It also had fascist tendencies. After the Second World War, there were some fights concerning the leadership of Ustaše. In 1956, Ante Pavelić formed the Croatian Liberation Movement in Buenos Aires. The goal of HOP was to control the original Ustaše organization. Because of its roots, HOP is widely seen as a successor of the Ustaše. In the early 1990s, the state of Yugoslavia disintegrated, and the parts it was made of became independent republics. In 1991, HOP moved to Zagreb; and the organization was registered as a political party.^[2] In 1997, HOP came into public limelight for paying a requiem mass for the Ustaše leader Pavelić in the Church of Saint Dominic in Split.^[3]

1. ↑ "Croatian Liberation Movement" (PDF) (in Croatian). Croatian Information-Documentation Referral Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
2. ↑ "Croatian Liberation Movement party page" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-01-14. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
3. ↑ Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Mitja Velikonja; Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, Feb 5, 2003 page 273