ZUPANJA ZUPANJA, Nov 11 (Hina) - Croatian citizens may look into a better future with more optimism and more trust, Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Ivica Racan said at a pre-election rally in Zupanja on Tuesday evening.
ZUPANJA, Nov 11 (Hina) - Croatian citizens may look into a better
future with more optimism and more trust, Social Democratic Party
(SDP) leader Ivica Racan said at a pre-election rally in Zupanja on
Tuesday evening. #L#
Presenting the party's platform and candidates in constituency no.
5, which covers Pozega-Slavonia and Vukovar-Srijem counties, Racan
said that years of investing in the economy had created conditions
for higher salaries and living standards.
Asked by members of the media to comment on Vukovar mayor Vladimir
Stengl's refusal to let the SDP hold a pre-election rally in the
town's cinema, Racan expressed regret, saying that "those who
prevent our rallies, tear SDP posters and insult our sympathisers
are actually afraid of citizens' support to the SDP".
He was also asked to comment on an incident which occurred in
Imotski on Sunday, when two SDP candidates were physically
attacked. "On Saturday evening, on the eve of the incident, the
president of the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union), Ivo Sanader,
attacked an SDP candidate by saying that SDP members were coming to
destroy Split and Dalmatia".
"By saying that, you've already signalled certain people to square
accounts with the destroyers," Racan said, adding that it had not
been just a matter of hurling eggs.
"The most obscene thing that's been heard is that the SDP provoked
the attack so as to take advantage of it for pre-election purposes,"
Racan said in reaction to a statement Sanader made in Split
yesterday.
Added Racan, "(That) reminds me of things that used to happen in the
Homeland War when crimes were justified by claiming that someone
else had committed them and not those who actually had".
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