ZAGREB, Nov 23 (Hina) - Some of top Croatian officials and leading politicians cast their ballots in the morning during Sunday's voting for the Croatian parliament. President Stjepan Mesic voted in a polling station in Zagreb at 09:00
hrs.
ZAGREB, Nov 23 (Hina) - Some of top Croatian officials and leading
politicians cast their ballots in the morning during Sunday's
voting for the Croatian parliament. President Stjepan Mesic voted
in a polling station in Zagreb at 09:00 hrs. #L#
"I believe that a turnout will be very good," the head of state said
after casting his vote.
He went on to say that he would hold consultations with all
political parties that would win seats in the Sabor, and after that
he would hold talks with the future premier-designate.
This will happen after the State Electoral Commission completes all
necessary election procedure, Mesic added.
The incumbent premier, Ivica Racan, who also voted in a polling
station in Zagreb, said he was very satisfied with the pre-election
campaign.
Racan's voting was covered by many Croatian and foreign reporters.
The leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the head of the
dissolved parliament, Zlatko Tomcic, who cast his ballot in a
polling station in Zagreb on Sunday morning, said that today voters
would say what they thought of politicians and their work.
The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) president, Ivo Sanader, who
went to the polls in the southern city of Split, said that he would
not give any statement because of the ban on electioneering, and
only added that "elections were a special day of democracy in every
country".
After casting his ballot in a polling station in Zagreb in the
morning, Anto Djapic, the leader of the Croatian Party of Rights
(HSP), said he was expecting a high turnout between 60 and 70
percent at this election.
On Sunday morning the Primate of the Catholic Church in Croatia,
Zagreb Archbishop, Cardinal Josip Bozanic, also cast his ballot.
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