ZAGREB, April 22 (Hina) - Ivo Sanader, who was re-elected president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) on Sunday, has announced the HDZ's return to power and changes in relations with the Croat Diaspora and the U.N. war crimes
tribunal in The Hague.
ZAGREB, April 22 (Hina) - Ivo Sanader, who was re-elected president
of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) on Sunday, has announced the
HDZ's return to power and changes in relations with the Croat
Diaspora and the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. #L#
"Once the HDZ takes over the leadership of the state, which I am
confident will happen, the party will demand that the Croat
Diaspora return to the Croatian parliament and will not accept
Hague indictments which question the defence character of the
Homeland War," Sanader said in a special programme on Croatian
Television.
Sanader said that now that he had been supported by the majority of
party delegates at the seventh HDZ convention, he expected his
rivals Ivic Pasalic and Maja Freundlich, as well as party secretary
Joso Skara, to tender resignations to their party posts. However,
he did not exclude the possibility of members of the "defeated
option" remaining at some party posts.
Sanader concluded that neither option had lost or won at the
convention, but that the winner was the HDZ, which he said was good
for Croatia.
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