HDZ rejects MOST offer to return to talks.
Representatives of SDP-led Croatia Is Growing coalition arrived at 5 pm at MOST headquarters to continue with coalition negotiations. They did not give any statements, but just said that at that moment they still did not know whether HDZ would return to negotiations about possible tripartite government, reports Vecernji List and Jutarnji List on December 21, 2015.
A few minutes later, several elected representatives of MOST came out and said that they had received a letter from HDZ which informed them that HDZ will not enter a tripartite government. “There will be no tripartite government, we will continue negotiations about the future government with Croatia Is Growing coalition”, said Robert Podolnjak from MOST. Asked whether all doors are now closed for HDZ, he said that they had a reasonable deadline to decide and that there should not be any other changes.
HDZ’s decision was made during a two hour session of HDZ party presidency which met to discuss MOST’s offer to return to coalition negotiations. After the meeting ended, Darko Milinović said only that everybody was satisfied, while Dubravka Šuica said that the talks will continue, but in a different way. “Not the way you expect”, she told reporters, without elaborating what she really meant.
Before the meeting, HDZ president Tomislav Karamarko told reporters that he would not sign MOST’s proposal about the tripartite government which was signed on Saturday by SDP. “No, I would not sign it. I have told you everything about that piece of paper”, Karamarko said before the meeting of the party presidency. Karamarko added that HDZ had always been ready to talk with everybody and about everything which would solve the problems of the country and citizens. “Our framework is known and has been presented in the last two to three days”, he said.
HDZ secretary general Milijan Brkić said before the meeting that they do not change their opinions every day. “Today is a wonderful day. We are people who have honour, pride and dignity and do not change our opinions every day”, Brkić said.
Leaders of MOST and Croatia is Growing coalition are meeting to discuss possible formation of a new government and whether they are going to propose MOST leader Božo Petrov as prime minister-designate at tomorrow’s consultations with Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarović.
