Homeland Movement (Domovinski pokret, DP)

The Home­land Move­ment (Domovin­s­ki pokret, DP) is a Croa­t­ian right-wing pop­ulist and nation­al­ist par­ty found­ed on 29 Feb­ru­ary 2020 by Miroslav Ško­ro. The par­ty com­bines Croa­t­ian nation­al­ism, nation­al con­ser­vatism, social con­ser­vatism, right-wing pop­ulism, and soft Euroscep­ti­cism. It sup­ports Croatia’s mem­ber­ship in the EU and Schen­gen but oppos­es adop­tion of the euro. DP empha­sizes tra­di­tion­al fam­i­ly val­ues, and oppos­es abor­tion and same-sex mar­riage. In 2021, Ško­ro stepped down amid inter­nal con­flict and Ivan Pena­va became par­ty pres­i­dent. In the 2024 par­lia­men­tary elec­tions, the DP-led coali­tion earned 14 seats, repo­si­tion­ing the par­ty as a king­mak­er. It then entered into a coali­tion with HDZ in May 2024. Its plat­form aligns with broad­er Euro­pean nation­al con­ser­vatism through its empha­sis on sov­er­eign­ty, cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty, and skep­ti­cism toward supra­na­tion­al governance.

Sources:
Home­land Move­ment – Wikipedia
Euronews – Croatia’s rul­ing con­ser­v­a­tives embrace far-right par­ty in new government
“Croatia’s ‘new’ nation­al con­ser­v­a­tives: the ‘Home­land Move­ment’” (jour­nal article)