At the beginning of a new week we saw a familiar picture in the race for the President’s office on Pantovčak. Presidential candidates across Croatia socialized with citizens, collected signatures for their official candidacy, but also continued, a month before the election, to fight for every vote.
Current and candidate for the new president, Zoran Milanović, will be the first to submit his candidacy for the presidential elections to the State Election Commission tomorrow at 9:30 a.m.
Today he visited the south of Croatia. The mayor of Split gave his support.
“I am sure that he will win these elections and that we will thus ensure that the Croatian Democratic Union does not take over all the levers of power in the Republic of Croatia. I wish him and his team all the best in this campaign and I am sure that the president will remain president,” said Split Mayor Ivica Puljak, president of the Center party.
Dragan Primorac was in eastern Croatia today. He is visiting Požega-Slavonia County, and the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Lipik. This is the first such center in Croatia that deals with the development and education of IT experts in the development of artificial intelligence.
He will submit his signatures on Wednesday.
Independent candidate Marija Selak Raspudić socialized with citizens on Rijeka’s Korzo. She is the voice, she said, of a moderate Croatia eager for change.
“Rijeka is a so-called hard nut, a hard nut that we can’t wait to crack. But, you know how it is with all hard nuts, once it’s cracked, as far as we hear in Rijeka, then love lasts forever and we believe that this love will appear in these elections,” she said.
Ivana Kekin is fought for the presidential seat from Karlovac’s Korzo today. While collecting signatures, she socialized with citizens and said that there are small people behind her.
“Who are supporting me to show that they are ready to build an alliance with me for a healthy Croatia in which citizens don’t get brown water from their taps while the authorities assure them that everything is fine with that water”, she said.
Young voters in Rijeka were interested to hear why the presidential elections are important and how they will improve the position of young people. The only ones who responded to dialogue with them were independent candidate Marija Selak Raspudić and Ivana Kekin from the Možemo party.
MOST party members from Šibenik say that the concrete problem of our society is illegal migration. The only one who can solve it, they claim, is their people’s candidate Miro Bulj.
“We have a situation where they are now returning to us those who illegally entered Germany and Switzerland. The President of the Republic is silent about these flights, and the Prime Minister is minimizing this problem,” pointed out MOST party member Nikola Grmoja.
The candidate of the Determination and Justice party, Karolina Vidović Krišto, accused the Zagreb city government of preventing them from collecting signatures.
Those candidates who have not yet collected all the signatures have eight more days, until December 10th.
Source: HRT