SPLIT, Jan 8 (Hina) - The head of the Split branch of Croatia's strongest opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and member of Parliament, Marin Jurjevic, said on Monday that the proposal by Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
that the Split city authorities should raise a monument in the city centre in honour of the first Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman, was "an intolerable attempt at scoring cheap political points."
SPLIT, Jan 8 (Hina) - The head of the Split branch of Croatia's
strongest opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and member of
Parliament, Marin Jurjevic, said on Monday that the proposal by Prime Minister
Ivo Sanader that the Split city authorities should raise a monument in the city
centre in honour of the first Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman, was "an
intolerable attempt at scoring cheap political points." Jurjevic
said that residents of Split should decide on the issue on their own, recalling
that a square by the city's waterfront promenade had been named after Franjo
Tudjman while the SDP had been in power.
Jurjevic described Sanader's speech in Split on Saturday as "arrogant",
saying that the prime minister had concentrated on criticising the Opposition
instead of speaking about the Brodosplit scandal and the Suncani Hvar case.
Jurjevic said that Sanader and his government should come to grips with
corruption rather than give 1.8 million kuna (approximately EUR245,000) to the
Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) to
conduct a scientific survey of corruption in cooperation with the Zagreb Law
School.