ZAGREB, Feb 28 (Hina) - Anto Djapic was re-elected as the president of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) at the party's fifth electoral convention in Zagreb on Saturday.
ZAGREB, Feb 28 (Hina) - Anto Djapic was re-elected as the president of
the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) at the party's fifth electoral
convention in Zagreb on Saturday.#L#
Upon his re-election, Djapic thanked for strong support he was given,
namely he won 1,228 votes, while only 50 deputies were against his
re-election.
He reiterated that his party was ready to win the next elections and
that the HSP was open for cooperation with all democratic
parliamentary parties regardless of their ideological orientation.
Djapic sent a message to the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
that the "the HSP won't be anybody's puppet or satellite and won't let
anybody keep us in a relegated position".
He pounced on the parliament's president Vladimir Seks for his failure
to react to yesterday's attack on the Homeland Defence War, referring
to Italian minority MP Furio Radin's claim that Croatian Serbs were
subjected to ethnic cleansing in the first half of the 1990s.
Djapic went on to say that Croats must have a zero tolerance attitude
when the Homeland Defence War is attacked just as Jews regarding the
Holocaust.
The HSP adopted at its convention a declaration on distancing itself
from any form of totalitarianism and suppression of democracy. In the
document the party also deplores corruption, nepotism, war
profiteering, the conflict of interest and any support or
participation in the war against Croatia.
Present at the convention were also officials of other parties.
Tonino Picula of the Social Democratic Party (HSP) said that "finally
ideas of the party of right and Social Democrats met in a productive
manner".
Zlatko Tomcic of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), said that the HSS
and the HSP were the only parties that had been present on the
political scene since the very start of Croatia's parliamentarism.
Ivo Banac of the Liberal Party, Hrvoje Kraljevic of Libra, and
Benjamin Tolic of the Croatian Bloc (HB) addressed the event, too.
On behalf of the ruling HDZ, Finance Minister Ivan Suker attended the
conference.
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