ZAGREB, December 28, 2019 – The incumbent President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović held an election rally in Karlovac on Friday, her first since the December 22 election when she made it into the second round of the presidential election, scheduled for January 5 when she faces off former Social Democrat prime minister Zoran Milanović.
Grabar-Kitarović said she had chosen Karlovac as the starting point of her campaign for the second round because it had been “a fortress of Croatianness” for ages and “an HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) fortress” since the time of the first president of independent Croatia, Franjo Tuđman.
She thanked her voters for their support in the first round of the election, saying that their support was “a voice of hope and unity”.
“I have embarked on the second round with a key message: let’s get together as we did in the early 1990s, when we were brought together as part of all-Croatian reconciliation by the first Croatian president Franjo Tuđman. Let’s do it for Croatian family, youth, pensioners, disabled people and all vulnerable groups, for our religious and moral values, the Homeland War, Croatian veterans and a better future,” Grabar-Kitarović said.
Speaking of the importance of security and of strengthening the country’s position on the foreign policy front, she said that Croatia should become stronger “first and foremost so that its people would live better.”
“Croatia can do more and better for you, for all of us. That’s why I invite all members and sympathisers of the HDZ and its partner parties, all citizens of Croatia, to choose a true Croatia in the second round. At the head of such a Croatia you will have me as your president, while I will have you as my people,” Grabar-Kitarović said.
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