PULA, Nov 27 (Hina) - Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) vice president Damir Kajin said on Thursday his party would not endorse a government led by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).
PULA, Nov 27 (Hina) - Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) vice
president Damir Kajin said on Thursday his party would not endorse a
government led by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). #L#
Commenting on last weekend's parliamentary election, Kajin told a
news conference "the HDZ is entitled to form the government but the
IDS won't support it". He added the victory of the Social Democratic
Party-IDS coalition in constituency no. 8 "doesn't mean Istria has
moved away from other parts of Croatia but that those parts have
moved away from Europe".
Kajin applauded the fact that HDZ leader Ivo Sanader was listening
to Doris Pack, chairwoman of the European Parliament's committee on
Southeast Europe, and that he would be benevolent towards Europe
even more than current Prime Minister Ivica Racan who, he added, had
been "more benevolent towards national pathos than Sanader
himself".
Kajin went on to say that the Croatian Peasant Party's entry into
the new government would "start a landslide struggle for chairs and
sinecures, which will result in a clientelist government".
Commenting on the electoral defeat of the coalition government led
by the Social Democrats, Kajin said it was due to promises made
before the last election, strong motives of the right wing to return
offices they held until the last election, the reduction of war
veterans' rights, and the economic situation in eastern Croatia.
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