ZAGREB, November 24, 2019 – Continuing to collect signatures of support for his presidential candidacy, Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Zoran Milanović said in Sisak on Saturday that he distanced himself from the support expressed for his presidential bid by member of parliament and HDSSB party leader Branimir Glavaš.
Milanović visited Sisak to collect signatures of support for his candidacy and when asked by reporters to comment on Glavaš’s support for his presidential bid, he said that he was surprised by it.
“I would like to distance myself from his support because Glavaš is not my kind of people. I think that (his support) is a message to (Prime Minister Andrej) Plenković. The man has been indicted for grave war crimes and the court is expected to make a ruling. The biggest problem about it is that the trial is taking too long, considering that the events in question happened in Osijek in 1991. That is something that I, as the future president, will change if I can, by statements and by exerting pressure at least. The case is still under way and that’s not how the judiciary should work.”
Glavaš, who is standing trial for war crimes against Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991, earlier in the day supported in Osijek with his signature Milanović’s candidacy, saying that his signature “is not a signature for the SDP or for drawing closer to the SDP but for Milanović as a candidate for the president of the republic”, while HDSSB members would decide for themselves whose presidential bid to support.
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