President Receives Temporary Election Results

President Mesic received today the temporary results from the DIP. From the President’s Office they confirmed that talks will start tomorrow.

President Mesic today received the report number one over temporary and unofficial elections results, it was confirmed from the President’s Office. By receiving the results, Mesic’s conditions for the beginning of the consultations over the mandatary are fulfilled.

Consultations over the mandatary can begin

From tomorrow he will officially start talks with all the leaders of the parties. The first among them will be president of HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) Ivo Sanader, whose party gained 61 mandates in Croatia and supposedly 5 in the Diaspora, that is the relative majority of members in the new parliament.

Apart from this, today Sanader carved out a mandate more by signing an agreement with the first Roma representative in the Croatian parliament in history, Nazif Memedi.

On the other hand, social-democrats (SDP) leader Zoran Milanovic gained 56 mandates, but he has already agreed a post-election coalition with HNS (Croatian People’s Party) and IDS. SDP also greets the mandate of the Bosnian representative Semso Tankovic. If this happens, the social-democrats would have 66 mandates. Nevertheless, Sanader denies them the right to form the cabinet.

Already after the publication of unofficial election results, on the night of the elections and during the two following days, the parties representatives have been holding meetings and sittings, and discussing coalitions, which could form the new cabinet after President Mesic’s decision upon the mandatary is made.

After the elections are repeated in three polling stations on December 9, the DIP will publish the official elections results.