ZAGREB, December 3, 2019 – Incumbent President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on Tuesday handed in to the State Election Commission lists with 231,652 signatures of support for her presidential bid.
“I thank everyone who gave their signatures, whether HDZ members, supporters or other Croatian citizens. I also thank the party for supporting my candidacy and other parties that have supported me as well as volunteers who collected signatures,” Grabar-Kitarović said after handing in lists with supporters’ signatures.
Commenting on her statement that she would take Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandić cakes to prison if he was convicted, she said that “in every democratic society a person is innocent until proven guilty by a final court ruling.”
She would not answer any other questions from the press and neither would HDZ party leader and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković who accompanied her at the helm of a delegation of officials of the HDZ and other parties supporting her candidacy.
Apart from the HDZ, the other parties that support Grabar-Kitarović’s presidential bid are Bandić’s Labour and Solidarity Party, the Croatian Christian Democratic Party (HDS) and the Croatian Party of Rights – Ante Starčević (HSP AS).
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