President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday there was no formal deadline for setting the date of the forthcoming parliamentary election but that there was political responsibility and that he expected the election date to be set soon.
Asked by the press if it was alright that Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor had still not said when the election would be held or met with the coalition partners and if she had missed the deadline do so, Josipovic said there was no formal deadline to adopt a decision on the election.
"Constitutional deadlines are important, but there is, let's say, political responsibility. Ms Kosor promised that she would say the election date by the end of June... the European Union's decision (on the completion of Croatia's accession negotiations) came a little later. Therefore, I expect that the Croatian public can tolerate that delay in a way and that we will hear the decision on the election date very soon," Josipovic said in response to questions from the press.
