ZAGREB, Nov 16 (Hina) - The president of the opposition's Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Ivo Sanader, left for Paris on Saturday to participate in the founding congress of French President Jacques Chirac's party, the HDZ said in a
statement.
ZAGREB, Nov 16 (Hina) - The president of the opposition's Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ), Ivo Sanader, left for Paris on Saturday to
participate in the founding congress of French President Jacques
Chirac's party, the HDZ said in a statement. #L#
After winning a parliamentary ballot last spring, several parties
making up the Union for the Presidential Majority have decided to
officially join.
It is expected Alain Juppe, a former foreign minister and mayor of
Bordeaux, will be elected president.
Sanader went to Paris at Juppe's invitation. There he will discuss
cooperation between the HDZ and Chirac's Party, read the HDZ
statement.
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