The Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader, Zoran Milanovic, has said that during the election campaign voters can expect "a tsunami of good intentions" and honey-tongued promises, adding that it was high time to start doing something as there are not alibis for inaction.
The SDP chief and the leaders of the other three opposition parliamentary parties, Radimir Cacic of the HNS, Ivan Jakovcic of the IDS and Silvano Hrelja of the HSU, on Thursday held talks with the mayor of Vukovar, Zeljko Szabo, and after that they addressed a news conference in that eastern Croatian town.
Milanovic said Croatia was in control of its successes and failures and that it owned "splendid resources" and therefore it's high time to take actions.
He said that election campaign would be a struggle for the trust of voters and "a struggle between those with good intentions and the know-how and those who had their chance but betrayed trust".
As for the eastern Croatian regions of Slavonia and Srijem, Milanovic said that those areas used to be the wealthiest regions only to turn into the underdeveloped ones.
The bloc of these four parties has great plans and fair intentions to change it for the better, Milanovic said mentioning plans for the irrigation, investments in agriculture, construction of gas-powered thermal plants and the upgrading of the port of Vukovar on the Danube River.
Cacic spoke about Vukovar's project for building a gas-powered thermal plant, and accused the current government of shedding 175,000 jobs in Croatia in the last three years.
