ZAGREB, Oct 21 (Hina) - The Croatian Social Liberal Party-Democratic Centre (HSLS-DC) coalition is a new political option offering a better Croatia which will certainly win next month's parliamentary elections, DC president Mate
Granic said on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, Oct 21 (Hina) - The Croatian Social Liberal Party-
Democratic Centre (HSLS-DC) coalition is a new political option
offering a better Croatia which will certainly win next month's
parliamentary elections, DC president Mate Granic said on Tuesday.
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Addressing a rally in Zagreb, he said Croatia needed a stronger
centrist option more than ever, not as a government remedy but to
determine the significance of authorities and Croatia's future.
Granic accused the incumbent government of bringing Croatia on the
verge of bankruptcy by raising the external debt to US$21 billion
and the internal debt to $8 billion. "There are 350,000 unemployed,
export is stagnating while import is growing. We... would
experience the Argentinean syndrome if this government remained in
power, but it won't."
He accused the ruling coalition and Prime Minister Ivica Racan of
what he said was a devastating foreign policy, of using national
television as their bulletin, and of inventing rows.
"They won't win the election because they look like losers and have
no vision," Granic told the rally which pooled some 50
sympathisers.
The HSLS-DC coalition's election goals are a clear development-
oriented economic policy, a stronger control thereof, smaller tax
rates for entrepreneurs, the introduction of three or more VAT
rates, and parliamentary control over debt-incurring, Granic
said.
He reiterated independent polls showed the coalition would win 12
percent of the vote and 25 seats in parliament.
HSLS secretary-general Dorica Nikolic too said the coalition was a
new political force in Croatia "which won't make promises but carry
out what citizens order".
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