Sporazum između Stranke prava i Hrvatsko-srpske koalicije (1912.-1913.)
The Agreement between The Party of Right and the Croat-Serb Coalition (1912-1913)

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 20th century, political life in Croatia was divided into two opposing camps: the Yugoslav camp represented by the Croat-Serb Coalition and the Croatian camp represented by Starčević’s Croatian Party of Right. In April 1908 a split occurred within the Party of Right’s parliamentary club wherein six representatives left the club under the leadership of Dr. Mile Starčević; in March 1909 more dissidents from the Party of Right joined this splinter group and together they formed a new party under the name Starčević’s Party of Right. The schism was the fruit of several years of dissatisfaction among some of the members of the Party of Right with the leadership and policies of Josip Frank. Alongside personal frictions, the reason for dissatisfaction stemmed from the attempt of Josip Frank to transform the Party of Right into a loyalist party whose programme would accept established framework of the Monarchy and assist in its fulfillment. In contrast to this position, the dissidents within the Party were inclined to cooperate with the Croat-Serb Coalition, convinced of the possibility that the Serbs would support the realization of Croatian state right programme. These differences of opinion continued to exist, and although a brief reconciliation occurred in 1911, they resulted in a new, and this time final, split in the ranks of the Party of Right in 1913.

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