ZAGREB, Nov 24 (Hina) - The Croatian People's Party (HNS) has won 12 seats in parliament, which is not enough for the victory of a centre-left coalition, HNS leader Vesna Pusic said at a news conference on Monday morning.
ZAGREB, Nov 24 (Hina) - The Croatian People's Party (HNS) has won 12
seats in parliament, which is not enough for the victory of a
centre-left coalition, HNS leader Vesna Pusic said at a news
conference on Monday morning. #L#
If we manage to win the majority of seats, including all eight
minority representatives, and if diaspora deputies are not all HDZ
candidates, the ratio could be 76:76, in which case the recruiting
of the one crucial deputy will begin, Pusic said.
Pusic believes that the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) is part of the
left coalition and that it is safer in that coalition.
It is a fact that the HSS has an offer from the Croatian Democratic
Union, HDZ, (which has 62 deputies without diaspora votes), but
that does not improve its chances, because the HSS will pay dearly
with its ratings for such trade-offs, she said.
Asked whether talks were held with the Croatian Party of
Pensioners, which now has three deputies and which she calculated
into the left coalition, Pusic said they had not started talks yet.
"We all depend on one another," she said.
Asked what she thought about a coalition of the HDZ and the SDP, she
said she believed it would destroy the parties' electorate.
She described the HNS' results as very good, compared to the last
elections, when the HNS won two seats. The party now has 11 deputies
plus one deputy from its coalition with the Primorje-Gorski Kotar
Alliance (PGS) in one constituency.
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