The leader of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, said at an HDZ convention in the eastern town of Vukovar on Saturday that the HDZ "is not fighting for power, but for voters' trust so that it could serve them in the next four years as well."
Kosor was speaking to HDZ delegates in the fifth constituency, which covers Pozega-Slavonia, Brod-Posavina and Osijek-Baranja counties.
She said that at the moment the HDZ was the only Croatian party fighting corruption sincerely and with commitment, noting that that fight "is harming the party because it's being attacked from all sides."
"Nevertheless, I'm sure that we are working for the future and that citizens will reward our honesty," Kosor said, adding that her government deserved a new four-year term because over the last two years it had been struggling to complete EU accession talks, fighting corruption and crime, and working to achieve economic revival.
"We are being attacked also because by completing the EU entry talks we have destroyed the dream of a new Yugoslavia for some," Kosor said, among other things.
