PM Applauds Transfer of HSP Members to HDZ

The premier said every vote from the centre to the right wing should go to the HDZ as the scattering of votes was in opposition’s favour.

On the first day of the electoral campaign in Croatia, a bus with the image of the president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Ivo Sanader, carried top officials of the ruling party on a visit to Nova Gradiska, Lipik and Slavonski Brod where numerous citizens, sympathisers and party members greeted them.

‘When I see you in such numbers I am even more sure of victory’

-When I see you in such numbers and motivated I am even more sure in our electoral victory. In elections on November 25 we will chose the character of our future for the next four years – Premier Sanader said.

-The HDZ is proud to look back at the past four years. We opened 740 new farms, we are introducing gas all over Croatia, the first section of the Vc Corridor Sredanci-Djakovo is being completed, water is being introduced to areas that have not had water – the HDZ president recalled.

He added that Croatia was making progress in all segments and that his party, contrary to the opposition, is offering a programme and not a fight for positions and new taxes.

-The HDZ will not introduce new taxes. I want to stress that we will build the Peljesac bridgeand the constructor is Slavonski Brod’s “Djuro Djakovic”, with which we are securing jobs in that company – Sanader said.

‘Every vote from the centre to the right wing should go to HDZ’

In his speech Sanader greeted all former members of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) who transferred to the HDZ in the past several days. He accentuated that every vote ‘from the centre to the right wing’ should go to the HDZ. The dissipation of votes to small parties is in favour of the HDZ’s political rivals, Sanader said.

He added that his government advocated an equal development of all Croatian counties, and so it shall be in the future.

He reiterated that the HDZ opposed new taxes, the legalisation of drugs, and was for the introduction of mandatory high school education.

Later the HDZ delegation arrived in Vukovar where Sanader said that Croatia was seeking justice for the victims of Vukovar because the victims of Vukovar, Ovcara and Vukovar Hospital were not merely victims and symbols of Vukovar, but also of Croatia, Europe and the world.

-If The Hague will not try Radic, Croatia will – Sanader said, with thousands of sympathisers applauding him.

He also mentioned Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina, whom he said were exceptionally important because they too gave their lives for the freedom of Croatia.