ZAGREB, December 9, 2019 – The HDZ party said on Sunday presidential candidate Miroslav Škoro was a self-proclaimed sovereignist copying SDP presidential candidate Zoran Milanović, that he had been an HDZ member when it suited him, and that instead of HDZ founder Franjo Tuđman’s policy, he had chosen the losing path of the Bridge party and his mentor Velimir Bujanec.
“After today’s repetition and copying of Milanović’s futile arguments, we remind self-proclaimed sovereignist Miroslav Škoro that the only real, genuine Croatian sovereignist was Franjo Tuđman. He fulfilled that task when it was necessary, unlike Škoro and those like him who today, 30 years later, only talk about it and try to score cheap political points,” the HDZ said in a comment on Škoro’s election rally in Zagreb earlier today.
“When it suited him, Škoro was in the HDZ, but now, instead of Franjo Tuđman’s policy, he has chosen the losing path of his mentor (talk show host) Velimir Bujanec and MOST.”
At the rally, Škoro said “there is no force which can prevent Croatia from being given back to the people.”
He said the HDZ of 30 years ago and today had nothing in common, aside from the name, and that Prime Minister and HDZ leader Andrej Plenković and President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović did not have the strength required for change yet dared to say that Škoro had betrayed the HDZ.
“No, no and no,” he said, adding that Plenković had betrayed the HDZ and Tuđman, Croatia’s first president. He had a message for HDZ voters, saying they “must know that a vote for Grabar-Kitarović is also a vote for Plenković.”
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