The representative of the Czech and Slovak national minorities, Vladimir Bilek, said this evening that the Club of Deputies of National Minorities decided to support Gordan Jandroković from the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) for the Speaker of the Parliament.
He stated this for RTL television after a meeting of eight minority MPs, among whom are three Serbs from the Independent Democratic Serbian Party (SDSS).
This, as reported by the Hina agency, eliminated the possibility of minorities supporting the coalition of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP).
In the parliamentary elections in Croatia on April 17, no party won enough mandates, 76, to independently form a new majority and government.
The ruling HDZ won the most votes, 61. Second place with 42 mandates is the center-left coalition gathered around the SDP.
Both parties are holding discussions on the formation of a parliamentary majority.
HDZ’s negotiations with the right-wing Homeland Movement (DP), which won 14 mandates, are ongoing, but one future deputy has already announced that he will not form a coalition with HDZ. The DP has said several times that it will not join the government with the SDSS, the party that was part of the government of Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, the president of the HDZ.
The right-wing Most party with 11 mandates entered the Parliament, from which they pointed out that they will not join the HDZ, but neither with the green-left party Mozemo, which has ten mandates and supports the SDP.
Three less liberal political options also entered the Parliament, the regional Istrian Democratic Parliament and the Independent Platform North with two mandates each and the Fokus-Republika coalition with one mandate. They announced that they will support SDP.
At the end of last week, the Constitutional Court of Croatia announced that the current president and prime ministerial candidate of the SDP, Zoran Milanović, cannot be a mandate holder or prime minister even if he resigns.
Milanović stated that SDP’s condition in negotiations with other parties is not that he be the mandate holder, and later the SDP also announced that it was giving up Milanović as mandate holder.
The President of Croatia convenes the first session of the Parliament no later than 20 days after the announcement of the official election results. It is expected that the final results will be announced early next week.
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