ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - Mate Granic was elected president and Vesna Skare Ozbolt deputy president of the Croatian Democratic Centre party at a constitutional session Sunday. Attending the session were also many former members of the
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Croatian President's envoy Igor Dekanic guests from the country and abroad, representatives of parliamentary parties from the country and abroad, and representatives of unions and associations. Skare Ozbolt stressed the DC will be a party of "uncompromised centre". About four thousand members gathered in 48 initiative branches stepped into the party in the last four weeks, she added. Granic asserted the "DC is a modern, European people's party which holds Croatia an inseparable part of European culture, tradition and civilisation". He said the party "is adopting the social doctrine of the Catholic Church" and would advocate improvement
ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - Mate Granic was elected president and Vesna
Skare Ozbolt deputy president of the Croatian Democratic Centre
party at a constitutional session Sunday.
Attending the session were also many former members of the Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ), Croatian President's envoy Igor Dekanic
guests from the country and abroad, representatives of
parliamentary parties from the country and abroad, and
representatives of unions and associations.
Skare Ozbolt stressed the DC will be a party of "uncompromised
centre".
About four thousand members gathered in 48 initiative branches
stepped into the party in the last four weeks, she added.
Granic asserted the "DC is a modern, European people's party which
holds Croatia an inseparable part of European culture, tradition
and civilisation".
He said the party "is adopting the social doctrine of the Catholic
Church" and would advocate improvement in the quality of life and
the restoration of rights to a dignified life of endangered social
groups.
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