Zoran Milanović, the current president of Croatia and the winner of the presidential elections held this Sunday in Croatia, offered cooperation to the executive power.
Milanović, SDP candidate and partner in the presidential elections, defeated HDZ candidate and partner Dragan Primorac.
“And whatever you want, an outstretched hand, a right-angled hand, fully outstretched. That is my duty to those who hold the executive power in this country and who say they are responsible for 99 percent of things, and the rest of us for that one percent,” Milanović said during his address at the election headquarters.
He said that he sees the victory as recognition or at least approval for his work in the last five years, as an act of people’s trust in him.
“But also as a message, as a plebiscite message of the Croatian political people about things in the country to those who should hear it. And I ask them to hear it,” Milanović pointed out and added that this is not support for him because no one has the support of 75 percent of the voters already it is only at this moment and only today.
According to him, he will stick to the Constitution and “that is his program”.
“My duty is to be equal, because that is what the Croatian Constitution says. In matters of foreign policy, equal, and that requires cooperation, that requires the convening of the National Security Council, which has not been convened for three years, not by my will. In matters of defense and of national security, as the Constitution says, I will be the commander-in-chief – therefore, not an equal, but the most responsible and the highest in rank, because that’s what the Constitution says,” Milanović said.
During his address, Milanović thanked the voters, especially those from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and asked for applause for HDZ voters as well, AA writes.
