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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Croatian Liberation Movement
| native_name      = Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret
| logo             = Logo of the Croatian Liberation Movement.svg
| logo_size        = 100px
| colorcode        = {{party color|Croatian Liberation Movement}}
| flag             = Flag of the Croatian Liberation Movement.svg
| leader           = 
| founder          = [[Ante Pavelić]]
| chairperson      = 
| president        = Andrej Šebalj
| foundation       = 8 June 1956
| registered       = 9 October 1991
| predecessor      = [[Ustaše]]
| dissolved        = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| ideology         = [[Croatian socialism]]<br>[[Croatian nationalism]]<br />[[Anti-communism]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-03-17 |title=HRVATSKI OSLOBODILAČKI POKRET |url=http://www.hidra.hr/stranke/programi/028368.htm |access-date=2024-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317063135/http://www.hidra.hr/stranke/programi/028368.htm |archive-date=2007-03-17 }}</ref><br />[[Euroscepticism]]<br />[[Neo-fascism]]
| position         = [[Far-right politics|Far-right]]
| religion         = [[Roman Catholicism]]<br>[[Cult of the leader]]
| headquarters     = [[Zagreb]], Croatia
| membership_year  = 2010
| membership       = 650<ref name="hidra">{{cite web|url=http://hidran.hidra.hr/hidrarad/stranke/programi/028368.pdf|title=Croatian Liberation Movement|publisher=Croatian Information-Documentation Referral Agency|language=Croatian|accessdate=29 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114094819/http://hidran.hidra.hr/hidrarad/stranke/programi/028368.pdf|archive-date=14 January 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| international    = [[World League for Freedom and Democracy]]
| seats1_title     = [[Sabor]]
| seats1           = {{Composition bar|0|151|hex={{party color|Croatian Liberation Movement}}}}
| seats2_title     = [[European Parliament]]
| seats2           = {{Composition bar|0|11|hex={{party color|Croatian Liberation Movement}}}}
| seats3_title     = [[List of current prefects of Croatia|County Prefects]]
| seats3           = {{Composition bar|0|21|hex={{party color|Croatian Liberation Movement}}}}
| seats4_title     = [[List of mayors in Croatia|Mayors]]
| seats4           = {{Composition bar|0|128|hex={{party color|Croatian Liberation Movement}}}}
| website          = 
| country          = Croatia
}}
The '''Croatian Liberation Movement''' ({{langx|hr|Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret}}, '''HOP'''; {{langx|es|Movimiento de Liberación Croata}}) is a minor [[Far-right politics|far-right]] political party founded in 1956 in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, by [[Ante Pavelić]], [[poglavnik]] of the [[Independent State of Croatia]] and its ruling party [[Ustashe]] – Croatian Revolutionary Movement from 1941 to 1945, and some Croatian emigrants.<ref name="hidra"/><ref>Sabrina P. Ramet, ''Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia at Peace and at War: Selected Writings, 1983-2007'', (Transaction Publishers, 2008), 23.</ref>

==History==

Until the 1970s, HOP was a Croatian emigrant organization with more than 80 percent of its members made up of people who had been politically active in some way in the 1941–1945 Independent State of Croatia regime. Originally led by [[Ante Pavelić]],<ref name="hidra"/> the former poglavnik, other signatories of HOP's first foundation charter included former Independent State of Croatia government officials such as [[Džafer Kulenović]] and [[Vjekoslav Vrančić]], which caused it to be considered a successor of the Ustashe, the Croatian fascist movement which ran the Independent State of Croatia.

The stated goal of the organization was the re-establishment of the Independent State of Croatia in its World War II borders, encompassing most of the territory of present-day Croatia and [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], which was at the time of HOP's foundation part of [[SFR Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vukušić |first=Bože |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TgeZSAAACAAJ |title=Tajni rat udbe protiv hrvatskoga iseljeništva |date=2001 |publisher=Klub hrvatskih povratnika iz iseljeništva |isbn=978-953-97963-2-5 |language=en}}</ref> Although considered by outsiders to be the most radical Croatian nationalist organization, HOP officially described itself as an [[anti-communist]] organization committed to democratic political means.

After the collapse of communism in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the organization's headquarters were moved from Buenos Aires to Zagreb and it was officially registered as a political party in Croatia in October 1991.<ref name="hidra"/>

Following registration, HOP ran in the [[1992 Croatian parliamentary election|August 1992 parliamentary election]] with little success. It has remained a marginal political force ever since. Their only other election campaign came six years later for the [[2007 Croatian parliamentary election|2007 election]], in which they also fared poorly.

Today, HOP functions as a minor political party in Croatia without holding any seats in the [[Croatian Parliament]] or at any other government level. The organization has active branches in Canada (in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver), and Australia (in Melbourne and Sydney).

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