ZAGREB, January 10, 2020 – Miroslav Škoro, a presidential candidate nominated by right-wing anti-establishment parties who failed to make it into the second round, has rejected criticisms that he has brought Social Democrat Zoran Milanović to power.
Speaking in an interview with the Večernji List daily of Friday, he said he was analysing why he had not won more than 24.5 percent of votes in the first round of the presidential election and what should have been done to ensure a better result.
“In such a demanding competition with a million variables, only an ignorant and arrogant person can shift the blame onto another,” Škoro said.
He said it was ridiculous that he was being criticised for telling his voters to vote in the interest of Croatia and according to their conscience in the runoff. “Were they supposed to go against themselves and their country?” he wondered.
Commenting on a statement by the chairman of the parliamentary group of the ruling HDZ party, Branko Bačić, that he hoped for future cooperation and a coalition with his party, Škoro said: “I didn’t enter politics to trade, but to change things. And that’s impossible if you work in the same way as they have so far. I’m not interested in that. Secondly, even if I wanted to trade, I have nothing to trade with.”
He said it was important to him to form a third, stable political group.
Asked if he was going to form his own party, Škoro said that this was a technical issue, adding that he would talk with the people and political groups that supported him to see what their plans were.
He said he was not anyone’s project. “This amazing result is solely the result of my cooperation with my people and partner parties.”
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