The Organization and the Activities of the Yugoslav Radical Peasant Democracy in the City and in the District of Brod na Savi up to the Time of the Municipal Elections in 1933

U radu se na temelju arhivske građe i lokalnog tiska pokušava rekonstruirati proces formiranja režimske Jugoslavenske radikalno seljačke demokracije / Jugoslavenske nacionalne stranke na području brodskog kotara. Uspostavom diktature zabranjene su sve političke stranke što je u prvi plan izbacilo lokalne političare spremne na suradnju s režimom. Diktatura formalno završava Oktroiranim ustavom i raspisivanjem skupštinskih izbora nakon kojih se kreće u formiranje režimske stranke. Na brodskom području vidljiva je izrazita heterogenost pristaša nove stranke što od samog početka dovodi do formiranju dviju frakcija koje ne priznaju jedna drugu i međusobno se bore za prevlast. Situaciju dodatno komplicira odbijanje brodskog narodnog zastupnika Nikole Nikića da pristupi stranci i njegov svojevrstan prelazak u opoziciji režimu. Uslijed takve situacije najvažniji režimski čovjek postaje bivši Nikićev bliski suradnik Tomo Kovačević, kraljevski senator i načelnik općine Sibinj. Budući da su uspostavom diktature na gotovo sve važne političke funkcije u gradu i kotaru postavljeni ljudi bliski Nikiću, vodstvo nove stranke imalo je potrebu provesti svojevrsnu čistku kadrova. Najkrupnija promjena bilo je postavljanje nove gradske uprave na čelu s Henrikom Duffekom, predsjednikom jedne od frakcija stranke. Taj će potez dovesti do novih problema jer su u potpunosti zaobiđeni članovi druge frakcije koji sada preko Kovačevića pokušavaju u novo gradsko zastupstvo postaviti dio svojih ljudi. Preko vrha stranke nekoliko je puta pokušano ujedinjenje frakcije koje je formalno provedeno svojevrsnim izborima tek u rujnu 1933. Iako je nakon toga formalno stvorena jedinstvena organizacija režimske stranke, razlike nisu nestale što je vidljivo i na općinskim izborima kada su u velikom dijelu općina postavljene frakcijske liste.In this paper an attempt is made to reconstruct the process of the establishment of the Yugoslav Radical Peasants’ Democracy/Yugoslav National Party controlled by the regime in the district of Brod according to archival records and local newspapers. After the establishment of the dictatorship, all political parties were prohibited and local politicians willing to cooperate with the regime came to the fore. The dictatorship was formally terminated with the Octroyed Constitution and after the calling of parliamentary elections; subsequently the regime party was established. The supporters of the new party in the Brod area were extremely heterogeneous; from the very beginning this led to the establishment of two fractions, mutually exclusive and struggling for supremacy. What made the situation even more complicated was that Nikola Nikić, representative of the Brod people, had refused to join the party and that he, so to say, had switched to opposition to the regime. Under these circumstances Nikić’s former close confidant Tomo Kovačević, royal senator and head of Sibinj, became the most significant supporter of the regime. After the establishment of the dictatorship, almost all significant political positions in the city and the district were held by people who were close confidants of Nikić; hence a special personnel cleanup was considered necessary by the leadership of the new party. The most significant change was the establishment of a new city administration led by Henrik Duffek, the president of one of the party fractions. This initiative caused new problems because members of the other fraction were completely neglected and now, with the support of Kovačević, tried to place some of their own members in the new city administration. The leadership of the party repeatedly tried to unify the fraction; formally this was accomplished after the elections in September 1933. After that, although a unified organization of the regime party was established, differences still remained; this became evident at the municipal elections as most of the municipalities fraction lists were put up