Croatian Popular Party (Croatian: Hrvatska pučka stranka, HPS) is a right-wing political party in Croatia. The party was founded in 1997 by Tomislav Merčep after his departure from Croatian Democratic Union. Merčep was the party candidate in the Croatian presidential election, 2000, and was eliminated in the first round as the seventh of nine candidates, winning 22,672 votes or 0.85% of the vote. The party had limited success on local elections.