Foreign and European Affairs Minister and Croatian People's Party (HNS) president Vesna Pusic said on Sunday that she was glad to see that five candidates won seats in the European Parliament from the slate proposed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP), her HNS and the Croatian Pensioners' Party (HSU).
"I hoped that the outcome would be six of our candidates, and five for the Opposition, but it is what it is," Pusic said, adding that she was sorry to see that the SDP-HNS-HSU coalition had not won six seats out of the 12 designated for Croatian MEPs.
As for the good result of the president of the Croatian Party of Rights Dr. Ante Starcevic (HSP AS), Ruza Tomasic, who won the highest number of preferential votes on the HDZ-HSP AS-BUZ coalition slate, Pusic said that she was not surprised.
"I think she (Tomasic) has homogenised the entire right wing in Croatia," Pusic said.
Pusic does not believe that an identical outcome would be at the forthcoming local elections, which Croatia will hold on 19 May.
