Asked by the press how the meeting came about with the party of Branimir Glavas, with whom the HDZ parted ways in the same hotel 26 months ago, Sanader said he had come to the opening of the Osijek Summer festival as well as to discuss important city and county programmes.
Asked if the HDZ would now forget the insults said in the past, Sanader answered, "We won't forget".
Asked about a possible coalition with the HDSSB, he said, "We will win the election and then we'll see".
Before Sanader's arrival, Djapic told the press the meeting was taking place at the invitation of the HSP-HDSSB coalition. "Anyway, this is the first contact between the HDZ and the HDSSB, namely between the two parties' presidents".
Sisljagic later told Hina he had not consulted Glavas about the meeting but the HDSSB Main Committee given that Glavas was undergoing treatment at the city hospital.
He reiterated that Sanader was invited to Osijek by County Prefect Kresimir Bubalo, Mayor Anto Djapic and himself for the opening of the Osijek Summer of Culture, but that prior to that they discussed cooperation in development projects for the city and county.
Asked if a truce or a reconciliation between the HDZ and the HDSSB was around the corner, Sisljagic said the HDSSB "was not at war with the HDZ" and that today's meeting "was not a political meeting on party level" but a meeting with the prime minister (Sanader) and his associates.