ZAGREB, April 28 (Hina) - A leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), Zeljko Pecek, who is in charge of party activities in Slavonia, has refuted claims that 200 members left the HSS branch in the eastern town of Djakovo.
ZAGREB, April 28 (Hina) - A leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS),
Zeljko Pecek, who is in charge of party activities in Slavonia, has
refuted claims that 200 members left the HSS branch in the eastern
town of Djakovo.#L#
The party branch in Djakovo does not number 200 people, so it is
impossible for 200 members to have left the branch, Pecek said on
Wednesday.
He believes that the crisis in the local branch would be settled by
mid-May.
Pecek added that he did not see any reason for him or party president
Zlatko Tomcic to go to Djakovo as the HSS functioned as a
decentralised party.
Some 200 members of the Croatian Peasant Party's (HSS) branch in
Djakovo left the party to join a farmers association "Brazda", which
is yet to be established, renegade party members said at a news
conference on Tuesday. The decision is the result of a crisis in the
Djakovo branch which lasted several months and of last week's decision
by the party's Osijek County branch to expel the president of the
Djakovo branch, Stjepan Kocet, due to poor results in last November's
parliamentary elections.
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