ZAGREB, May 24, 2020 – Nino Raspudic, a professor of Italian language and literature at Zagreb’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, who is more known as a political analyst and columnist, said on Sunday that he would be a candidate on a slate of the Bridge party in the 5 July elections.
Announcing his political engagement in the next parliamentary elections, Raspudic said in the HTV’s talks show on Sunday that he had been writing articles as a political columnist for newspapers for more than 10 years.
“This has been a sort of political work. It was not engagement party-wise, however, I have made some impact on shaping political discourse in Croatia,” said this university professor, born in Mostar in 1975.
Raspudic said that “the democratic deficit” in Croatia, in the European Union and globally, when it comes to election processes, was the main reason why he had decided to run in the elections.
Raspudic’s announcement ensued a few days after the Bridge party said that his wife Marija Selak Raspudic, a philosopher and political analyst, decided to run in the elections as an independent candidate on its slates.
The Raspudic couple has been perceived in the public as a reinforcement for Bridge after several officials and parliamentarians left the party or said they would not run in the next election, including Slaven Dobrovic, a former environmental protection minister, Ines Strenja, Ivana Nincevic-Lesnadric, and Robert Podolnjak.
