Expelled from HDZ

Kosor to remain in politics after being ousted

18.04.2013 u 23:08

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Former president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Jadranka Kosor who was officially expelled from the party said on Thursday she would remain in politics, adding that she would not join any other political party.

Asked by reporters if she was considering joining another caucus, she said "We'll see".

Kosor considers that the decision to strike her from HDZ membership was in contradiction to the statute and a precedent because of the "arguments and the way that job was done," adding that she had informed the European People's Party of which the HDZ is a member, of the entire matter.

She added that several lawyers had advised her that she had grounds to file a constitutional complaint against the party and that she was contemplating this possibility.

She once again rejected the explanation by the party court of honour which claimed that she had caused damage to the party's reputation, claiming that she had not said anything against the party or its leadership and all she had done was to reject the incumbent party president Tomislav Karamarko's statements that the party's former leadership had de-Croatianised and de-Tudjmanised the party.

She concluded that she considered that she had achieved a lot as a politician, minister and prime minister.