ZAGREB, April 1, 2019 – The opposition Živi Zid party on Sunday presented its slate for the forthcoming European Parliament elections, with its leader Ivan Vilibor Sinčić calling on voters to go to the polls on 26 May in large numbers.
In his speech, Sinčić said that in that way voters would contribute to the struggle for the future of the Croatian people “within a huge European mechanism of centralised decision-making”.
“We are here to decide on whether the future of Croatia and the Croatian people will be servility or freedom,” said he.
The slate is headed by the party’s secretary-general Tihomir Lukanić.
In mid-March the party presented a joint platform with a group of European populist parties for May’s European Parliament election in Zagreb, when Sinčić said that they were a new generation of politicians who would build a new and better Europe.
The platform which Sinčić said is advocating an honest Europe that will be closer to citizens and that will fight against corruption and organised crime was presented by him and the leaders of kindred European parties – Luigi di Maio from Italy’s 5 Star Movement, Pawel Kukiz from the Polish party Kukiz 15 and Evangellos Tsompanidis from Greece’s AKKEL.
According to the latest projections released by the European Parliament on Friday, Živi Zid can expect one out of 12 seats in the EP allotted to Croatia, whereas the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) is set to win six seats, the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) three seats and the GLAS-led Amsterdam Coalition and the MOST party could win one seat each.
It was the third such projection of the composition of the next EP released by the Parliament and based on polls on voting intentions in the EU member-states.
Initial projections of the composition of the new European Parliament indicated that of 12 seats reserved for Croatia the HDZ would win six, the SDP three, Živi Zid two and MOST one.
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