ZAGREB, March 11, 2019 – The Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) decided at a leadership meeting on Monday that it would not leave the ruling coalition, authorising its leader Milorad Pupovac and the party’s parliamentary group to discuss the situation with the coalition partners.
The party’s Presidency today discussed relations within the coalition and the party’s status in the coalition, deciding that it has reached a line which it cannot cross for the sake of defending basic democratic values, rule of law, freedom of the press, Croatia’s international commitments, the rights of the Serb minority and everything that has been agreed with the government and signed and adopted in operational programmes concerning the Serb minority, the chairman of the SDSS parliamentary group, Boris Milošević, told the press after the meeting.
MP Dragana Jeckov said that the Presidency had authorised Pupovac and the SDSS parliamentary group to discuss the situation with the coalition partners, “those who still care about these values and issues.”
Pupovac declined to speak to the press. Last week he indicated in several statements that the SDSS was considering leaving the governing coalition.
Coalition leaders are due to meet on Tuesday.
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