During the Homeland War, Croatian President Franjo Tuđman accused the DA of being an anti-Croatian separatist organization that intends to destroy Croatia, and based on that he put its leaders in prison.

[2][3] The party was founded by Nino Aviani and Tomislav Matijašević, and Teo Krnić was appointed secretary.

For some time, the media discussed the fights between Aviani and Split SDP members because of the way the party was run.

He also accused them that, under pressure, the appeal against the decision on exclusion from the electoral process failed only on the second attempt.

He announced that he would request administrative supervision of the party's work due to a deliberate failure to conduct the election process.