SPLIT/VARAZDIN, Nov 3 (Hina) - Retired colonel Mirko Condic, president of the national headquarters of Croatian war veterans, has joined the Croatian Bloc (HB) and will be on the party's roster in constituency no. 10, a member of the
party's election headquarters in the constituency, Davor Pavic, said in Split on Monday.
SPLIT/VARAZDIN, Nov 3 (Hina) - Retired colonel Mirko Condic,
president of the national headquarters of Croatian war veterans,
has joined the Croatian Bloc (HB) and will be on the party's roster
in constituency no. 10, a member of the party's election
headquarters in the constituency, Davor Pavic, said in Split on
Monday. #L#
The report was confirmed by Condic himself, who said he had joined
the HB because he shared the party's position on the Homeland War,
war veterans, cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia, the church, family, Croats in Bosnia-
Herzegovina, and problems that cause divisions among Croatian
people.
The HB follows the doctrine of the late Croatian president Franjo
Tudjman, said Condic.
The former member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) said he had
left the HDZ in July because of disagreement with the policy of its
leadership.
Condic is known in the public for his criticism of senior state
officials and speeches at numerous rallies in support of Croatian
army personnel accused of war crimes.
The HB/Croatian True Revival (HIP) coalition today presented its
candidates in Varazdin, where the roster is headed by HIP president
Miroslav Tudjman. HB member Krunoslav Gasparic said the two
parties, which would run in elections in all 11 constituencies,
advocated the affirmation of fundamental values on which the modern
Croatian state was based.
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