A new party, HDZ 1990, was established in Mostar on Saturday and Bozo Ljubic was elected president of its temporary presidency.
The establishment of the new party was initiated by Ljubic and his sympathisers over dissatisfaction with the policy of the HDZ BH party and its president Covic.
At the founding assembly it was said several times that the HDZ 1990 would go back to the HDZ BH's original political principles from 1990.
In July 2005, Ljubic lost to Covic at an election convention for the new HDZ BH president and has publicly claimed a number of times that Covic's election was rigged.
In an interview for the Bosnian edition of Croatia's Vecernji List daily of Monday, Covic said that the party containing HDZ in its name would only confuse the voters and cause damage to his party. He said he was confident the new party would end up on the margins of the political scence in Bosnia.