ZAGREB, April 24 (Hina) - The leadership of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) on Saturday discussed plans for next Croatian presidential elections and the opinion prevailed that the HSLS should not support Stipe Mesic who would
seek renomination, given that at the last presidential elections he was opponent to the HSLS candidate and party leader at the time, Drazen Budisa.
ZAGREB, April 24 (Hina) - The leadership of the Croatian Social Liberal
Party (HSLS) on Saturday discussed plans for next Croatian
presidential elections and the opinion prevailed that the HSLS should
not support Stipe Mesic who would seek renomination, given that at the
last presidential elections he was opponent to the HSLS candidate and
party leader at the time, Drazen Budisa.#L#
According to some reports, at the closed part of today's session the
current Social Liberal President president, Ivan Cehok told the
national council that at a recent meeting he and HSLS vice presidents,
Djurdja Adlesic and Hrvoje Vojkovic, held with the head of state Mesic
there had been no mention of giving support to Mesic's candidacy.
Cehok said this refuting allegations which had occurred in a part of
the HSLS and in some media about the HSLS backing of Mesic's
re-nomination.
A part of the national council believes that the HSLS should have its
own candidate for the presidential election.
Cehok informed the session on the activities of the party in the
recent period.
He also commented on Croatia's bid to enter European institutions,
assessing that Croatia still has no clear strategy for that process.
"I am afraid that we yet do not know what we want and how we can
achieve it," the HSLS head said.
In his report Cehok said that after unexpected very poor results at
the 2003 November parliamentary elections, the HSLS had relatively
smoothly gone through the post-election period.
"There were some tremors but there were not serious quakes," Cehok
spoke figuratively about that period for his party.
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