Addressing an election rally of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in Zagreb's Bundek park on Friday evening, party president Jadranka Kosor said the Croatian media had sided with the centre-left opposition coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) during the campaign for the December 4 parliamentary election.
"We have been exposed to constant lies and slanders, especially from the Croatian media which have sided with the Kukuriku coalition, with those who not only want the HDZ to lose the election, but want it to vanish from the political scene," Kosor said, adding that her party would not allow that to happen.
She resented that President Ivo Josipovic "did not accept the government's nominations, which is why we have been without an ambassador to the United States for several months." This, she said, was because Josipovic had accepted SDP leader Zoran Milanovic's demand not to appoint new ambassadors because he would be the one to choose them.
"He won't be the one to choose them, honorable and honest people representing Croatia will be chosen by us in agreement with Mr. President," Kosor said.
She reiterated that her party had taken the brunt of the fight against corruption and that that fight would not stop.
The HDZ leader accused the SDP-led coalition of hiding its platform from the public because, she said, it envisaged seeking assistance from the IMF and laying off 80 percent of public administration workers.
"Evil cannot triumph over good," Kosor said.
The rally was also addressed by the first candidate on the HDZ slate for Constituency No. 1, Gordan Jandrokovic, who heads the party's Zagreb branch.
Constituency No. 1 covers the northwestern areas of Zagreb County and parts of the Zagreb city centre and the city's western parts.
