[4][5] The founders of the party said that their goal is to change the ideals of Croatia so that Croats will not care solely about the material realm, but also about spiritual and moral values.

The president of the party is Goran Dodig, and there are two vice-presidents are Ante Ledić and Petar Kaćunko.

In the 1990 Croatian parliamentary election, it joined the bloc of moderate nationalists called Coalition of People's Accord.

Like all parties of that bloc, it fared badly; however, one year later, it had a ministerial post in the "National Unity" government of Franjo Gregurić.

Croatian Christian Democrats was a minor right-wing conservative political party that was founded in 2002.