The president of the strongest Opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Zoran Milanovic, said on Saturday that it was not good for Croatia to have its citizens go to the polls only at the end of the year, stressing that the election date should not be defined by someone's personal ambition, but by the interests of the state and its citizens.
"It would be good, not because anyone's personal ambition, not because of anyone inthe Opposition ..., but because of Croatia to have the elections sooner," Milanovic said at the start of the session of the SDP head committee which is scheduled to discuss an agreement which leaders of the four major opposition parliamentary parties -- the SDP, the HNS, the IDS and the HSU -- signed on Friday regulating on their cooperation in the forthcoming parliamentary election in all electoral units.
Croatia's ruling coalition agreed yesterday that parliamentary elections would be held on December 4.
Milanovic reiterated that it would not be good to have the election campaign and the referendum on Croatia's EU entry being held at the same time.
Milanovic told reporters that his party would stay away from finger-pointing during the election campaign, stressing that it would be positive, clear and proactive in hope that people will understand and believe SDP politicians. "The fight for people's trust is the core of the politics, to have them trust you and not buy would theories," Milanovic said.
