Party Leader: We Will Be Easy-Going With PM

Death always causes sincere condolences and it is sad that tensions have to be cooled down by such happenings, Milanovic said.

n the next days SDP (Social Democratic Party) will be easy-going with Ivo Sanader, party president Zoran Milanovic said during a meeting with the citizens in Krapina. He stressed that SDP sent Sanader a letter of grievance for his father’s death.

- Death is always causes sincere condolence and it is sad that tensions have to be cooled down by such happenings – Milanovic said.

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The president of SDP commented the gathering of Croatian economists in Opatija, as well as the statements of Sanader and President Mesic. He said that he would rather speak about SDP’s programme than about Mesic.

- Mesic is not a candidate for these elections anyway, and he does not have a programme for the elections – Milanovic said. He stated that it is logical that premier Sanader defends the results achieved by his government, but, the facts speak differently, Milanovic said.

- This country is not on the edge of collapsing, and no one said that, but the settled trends are negative, and the settled processes are not managed. They allowed things to go their way, this is a fact – Milanovic stated using the commonly used sentence: the way to hell is paved with the best intentions.

- Croatia is more and more in debt and what is produced will not be enough cover up the debts – Milanovic said worried.

‘Jezenirac is paid as a general, but answers only to the Holy See’

President of SDP commented the topic upon the Church and politics, saying, in disagreement from President Mesic, that bishops are not democratically elected and they can not speak in the name of the believers of whom hundreds of thousands will vote for SDP.

- The question is whether some things in the contract with the Holy See should have been different. In fact, it should have not happened that the Croatian poverty paid military ordinariate Jezerinac, that he is paid as a general, and that he does not answer us at all, but only to the Holy See – Milanovic said, adding that something like this does not exist in any country in Europe.

Some sportsmen drive expensive cars around Croatia, but they do not pay taxes anywhere.

When asked to comment the commitment of sportsmen in the election campaign, Milanovic said that he is not sure if they many sportsmen understand the Croatian society of the last years.

- Some of them save money in Monte Carlo, drive extremely expensive cars through Zagreb and Split with the table plate of that city, but they do not pay taxes anywhere – Milanovic stated, concluding ‘If the prove that this is fine, let them express their position’.