Stjepan Radić was a Croatian politician and the founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party. After World War I. he had opposed merging Croatia with the Kingdom of Serbia without guarantees for Croatian autonomy. He changed the name of the party to the Croatian Republican Peasant party because he wanted to emphasize the unaccepting of monarchism, the struggle for republicanism and Croatian Peasnt Republic. 1925. faced with accusation for communism and long-term jail he changed his political tactic, accepted the monarchy and became a minister of education in the Kindom of Serbs, Croats and Slovens. He returned very quickly to the opposition and concluded an agreement with Pribićević about the establishment of HSS and SDS in the peasant-democratic coalition. 20.06.1928. the deputy of radical party Puniša Račić shot at the deputies of the HSS. He killed Pavle Radić and Đuro Basaričen, wounded Ivan Pernar and Ivan Granđa. Stjepan Radić died of the consequences of wounding. Already at that time lot of people were thinking that the crime was organized and that the actual leader was king Alexandar. Shortly after the king introduced his dictatorship.