ZAGREB, January 22, 2019 – The leaders of the Istrian Democratic Party (IDS) and the GLAS party, Boris Miletić and Anka Mrak Taritaš said in Pula on Monday that violence, chauvinism and hatred have become the Croatian brand, with Miletić saying that he was proud of fact that the Amsterdam Coalition (GLAS, HSS, IDS, HSU, PGS) were introducing Istrian values whose trademark is openness, multiculturalism and tolerance.
“In the past several weeks, alone we have witnessed a number of incidents, starting with Đakić’s hideous Facebook post for which he was only slapped on the wrist, to Vukovar where children were being used in a cowardly fashion for political and national dispute along the ethnic line, all the way to incidents, insults and foul language in Parliament. This is the mirror of Croatia today. To call the national parliament a hen house is an insult to the hen house,” Miletić told the press.
He accused the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of arrogance and the opposition MOST party of rudeness, adding that “this makes any decent person uncomfortable.”
Anka Mrak Taritaš said that Istria was the last oasis of coexistence and tolerance in Croatia.
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