SIBENIK, Oct 12 (Hina) - Croatian Bloc (HB) president Ivic Pasalic said on Friday priest Zlatko Sudac and pop singer Marko Perkovic aka Thompson should be role models for HB members, and that the party's voters should be people
admiring those two figures.
SIBENIK, Oct 12 (Hina) - Croatian Bloc (HB) president Ivic Pasalic
said on Friday priest Zlatko Sudac and pop singer Marko Perkovic aka
Thompson should be role models for HB members, and that the party's
voters should be people admiring those two figures. #L#
"Attempts are being made today to ridicule those two people, two
phenomena I deeply respect and consider a reflection of the
traditional values of Croatian society," Pasalic said at the
establishment of HB's Sibenik-Knin County branch.
"I would like them to be role-models for HB members and
sympathisers, and for the majority of our voters to come from the
ranks of those who appreciate and support Sudac and Thompson," said
Pasalic.
Adding that he had attended Thompson's concerts and Sudac's
sermons, he said they were only saying publicly that they are proud
to be Croats and pointing to virtues such as love, family, faith and
God.
"These virtues are acceptable to many Croats and this is the reason
behind the panic and the orchestrated campaign against those two,"
said Pasalic.
He said HB was established as a way out of the backwater in the
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party and the Croatian state at a
time when it became obvious that HDZ was carrying out a
"detudjmanisation more ruthless than that by (Prime Minister)
Racan and (President) Mesic, to show them and some foreign
officials a more democratic and acceptable face of HDZ".
"Tudjmanism is the foundation stone of HB because Tudjmanism is the
policy which led to the creation of the independent, sovereign
Croatian state," said Pasalic.
Speaking of the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague, he said that its
jurisdiction over Homeland War operations must be eliminated by
legal means. The public should be warned that the government will
scare people by claiming that Croatia will be exposed to sanctions
if the constitutional law on cooperation with the tribunal is
changed, he said.
"There is no reason for fear as the moved amendments were written by
experts, with scientific basis provided by people on the defence
team of General Gotovina (Croat indicted by the Hague tribunal who
is on the run), who used American legislation and that of some
western European countries as a model," said Pasalic.
"I don't believe that representatives of those countries will vote
for sanctions against Croatia because it incorporated into its laws
what their own ones say," he concluded.
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