- Published: 02.09.2019.
Plenkovic: Minorities' inclusion in parl. majority necessary for sound political culture
Prime Minister and Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) leader Andrej Plenkovic has reiterated that for a sound political culture and tolerant climate, it is necessary to have representatives of ethnic minorities included in the parliamentary majority.
In his address to the press in Monday, Plenkovic recalled that the present-day Croatia in 2019 is a country that "has accomplished all its national tasks: democracy, freedom, independence, peaceful reintegration, membership of the European Union and NATO. All that is relevant is solved by us as a state."
"As far as the need for the inclusion of representatives of minorities in the parliamentary majority is concerned, my position is that it is necessary for a sound political culture and tolerant climate," Plenovic said in response to questions about the future developments regarding the relations in the ruling majority.
It is now on Croatia to settle the remaining matters in a level-headed, rational and responsible matter in order to develop itself as a tolerant and Europe-oriented society where minorities feel safe and well, he added.
For the Croatians it cannot be anything more positive than when minorities feel well in the contemporary Croatia that has solved all essential issues and now it is supposed to make progress economy-wise and socially, Plenkovic said in his comment on speculations whether the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) would stay or go out of the ruling coalition.
Plenkovic said that it was on the SDSS leadership to present its position.
"We will talk. I must find some time in my busy schedule for talks with (SDSS leader Milorad) Pupovac," Plenkovic said. The Croatian premier again refuted Pupovac's claims about an intolerant social climate in Croatia and Pupovac's attempts to compare the contemporary Croatia to the 1941-1945 NDH regime.
Text and photo: Hina