SINJ, June 30 (Hina) - The leadership of the Alka Knights Society (VAD) and the Sinj authorities have agreed to jointly ask President Stjepan Mesic to once again become the sponsor of the Sinjska Alka tournament and to attend the
291st annual event on August 6, VAD president Stipe Jukic and Mayor Nikola Tomasevic told the press on Friday.
SINJ, June 30 (Hina) - The leadership of the Alka Knights Society
(VAD) and the Sinj authorities have agreed to jointly ask President Stjepan
Mesic to once again become the sponsor of the Sinjska Alka tournament and to
attend the 291st annual event on August 6, VAD president Stipe Jukic and Mayor
Nikola Tomasevic told the press on Friday. Mesic sponsored the
lancing tournament for the last time in 2001, when the Alka ended with an
incident. VAD leaders banned Mesic's envoy from presenting the sponsor's gifts
to the winner.
The new VAD leadership, elected this year, has changed the Society's
policy and wishes to apologise to the president of the republic, in which it
enjoys the support of Sinj's new coalition government.