Asked to comment on opposition leader Zoran Milanovic's statement that he had no reason to come to the government to discuss the completion of Croatia's EU entry talks and that refusal to set an election date pointed to the ruling HDZ party's fear of elections, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Tuesday she had expected something like that and that she would talk with everyone else who as interested.
"Coming, not coming. Milanovic rushed to every call by the former prime minister. I expected that he wouldn't want to come. I will talk with everyone else who wants the negotiations with the European Union to be completed as soon as possible," the Croatian PM said in Copenhagen, during a working visit to Denmark.
Kosor said that Milanovic, the leader of the strongest opposition party, the Social Democrats (SDP), evidently did not want to hear about and was not interested in the completion of the EU accession negotiations and that he did not want to help to achieve that historic objective.
Kosor said the decision on parliamentary elections would be made by the ruling coalition, as stipulated by law.
"Milanovic wants to come to power immediately because they fear that, if the negotiations with the EU are completed and if the results of reforms and the economic recovery become evident, their chances of victory are smaller," she said, adding this was a matter of the SDP's narrow party interests.
