ZAGREB, Jan 11 (Hina) - In the campaign for Croatia's new president, accent should be placed on the candidates' moral aspect, because only a morally clean person can drag Croatia out of its present situation, Anto Djapic, the
presidential candidate of the Croatian Party of Rights/Croatian Christian Democratic Union coalition, said on Tuesday. Presenting his candidacy in Zagreb, Djapic urged all presidential candidates to publicly state their and their family's property. Djapic said he advocated a clean presidential system, like the one in the United States, and higher powers to the president for the situation in the country. This is necessary in view of ensuring the effectiveness of the executive authority, he asserted. If voted president, Djapic said he would revive economy by putting an end to the sale of Croatian public companies to foreigners, and by passing a national development strategy. Djapic said he wanted
ZAGREB, Jan 11 (Hina) - In the campaign for Croatia's new president,
accent should be placed on the candidates' moral aspect, because
only a morally clean person can drag Croatia out of its present
situation, Anto Djapic, the presidential candidate of the Croatian
Party of Rights/Croatian Christian Democratic Union coalition,
said on Tuesday.
Presenting his candidacy in Zagreb, Djapic urged all presidential
candidates to publicly state their and their family's property.
Djapic said he advocated a clean presidential system, like the one
in the United States, and higher powers to the president for the
situation in the country. This is necessary in view of ensuring the
effectiveness of the executive authority, he asserted.
If voted president, Djapic said he would revive economy by putting
an end to the sale of Croatian public companies to foreigners, and
by passing a national development strategy.
Djapic said he wanted to offer Croatia the least painful road to the
European Union, NATO, and other international institutions. In
every stage of integration, the Croatian people must be the one to
have the last say, by referendum, he stated.
Djapic said it was imperative to "drag (Croatia) out" of the
Stability Pact for Southeast Europe which he said tied it to the
Balkans. The real frame of Croatia's foreign policy must be
cooperation with countries in Central Europe and access to the
Central European Free Trade Association, he said.
Djapic also said lustration must be carried out in all areas of
public life in the implementation of democratisation processes.
He said he would advocate putting an end to the devaluation of the
value of the Croatian Homeland War, and re-investigate through an
expert commission Croatia's cooperation with the International
Criminal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Djapic said that as Croatian president, he wanted to "stop the
process of Serb returns to Croatia." Those who fought for Greater
Serbia "renounced their Croatian citizenship," he stated, adding
he wanted to incite agreement talks with Serb refugees "to pay them
out through succession to the (former Yugoslav federation) and
(through) war damages."
Djapic said his biggest opponents for the president's office were
Drazen Budisa, Mate Granic, and Zvonimir Separovic.
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