The centre-left opposition coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) held an election rally in the southern coastal city of Split on Sunday, presenting its candidates in Constituency No. 10.
Addressing the gathering, SDP leader Zoran Milanovic said that the coalition would have to "work together with its political rivals" after the December 4 election and that their shared goals would need popular support. He called on voters for support in making tough decisions.
"We seek your trust in making hard, perhaps even unclear, decisions which we will not leave to anyone outside Croatia. We'll try to do it on our own, and on that road we are entitled to mistakes, but we are not entitled to hiding behind others, to calculations we have seen over the past few years," Milanovic said.
"Once and for all we need to get over with war topics that have traumatised Croatia too much," he said, and added that Croatia had been through more difficult times in its past than the present crisis, citing the Second World War and the country's path to independence.
Milanovic said that in order to overcome uneven development the country should be "decentralised, but not fragmented." He also called on voters to vote in favour of Croatia's EU membership at a referendum after the election.
