(ANSAmed) - ZAGREB, MAY 21 - Former interior minister and
one-time head of Croatia's secret services, Tomislav Karamarko
became the head of the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ,
Conservative), the main opposition party yesterday evening. HDZ
led the country from 1990 to 1999 and once again between 2004
and 2011.
At yesterday's party congress, Karamarko came out on top of
four other candidates, including former president and former
premier Jadranka Kosor. ''The party has shown its desire to turn
the page towards greater democratisation and to clarify all its
scandals,'' the new opposition leader said. The latter reference
was to a series of corruption trials among whose defendants are
former premier and HDZ chief Ivo Sanader as well as other former
party and government heads. In one trial concerning the creation
of black funds using public money, Mr Sanader is joined in the
witness box by the HDZ party itself as a legal person.
Analysts are saying that after ten years the centrist, demo-Christian party centre has now been defeated and it could now veer to the right, as Karamarko's traditionalist, nationalist rhetoric would indicate. (ANSAmed).
Analysts are saying that after ten years the centrist, demo-Christian party centre has now been defeated and it could now veer to the right, as Karamarko's traditionalist, nationalist rhetoric would indicate. (ANSAmed).
