Mandate -When President Gets Elections Results

The PM was the first to go to Mesic, and agreed to start discussions over the cabinet when the president receives the elections results.

Today in the President’s Office Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and PM Ivo Sanader discussed over the functioning of the institution until the election of a new cabinet, and that the consultations for the handing of the mandate for assembling a new government will begin after the president receives the results form the National Election Committee (DIP). 

Considering that the elections will be repeated on December 9, in three polling stations around Croatia, and after that 48 hours have to pass for possible negotiations, the DIP will probably not send the official elections results to the president before December 11.

President of SDP (Social Democratic Party) Zoran Milanovic, who also announced that he will form a new government, a centre-left one, will go to the president on a meeting tonight.

President of HNS (Croatian People’s Party), the party that yesterday signed a coalitions with SDP, Vesna Pusic, today will join Zoran Milanovic again. The presidents of the HSS-HSLS (Croatian Peasants Partiy – Croatian Social Liberal Party) coalition party, Djurdja Adlesic and Josip Friscic, will hold a meeting within their parties, and after that why will join the president of HDZ Ivo Sanader. Sanader expects their mandates to gain the majority in parliament and to form his government.

President and PM over the institutions functioning until the election of a new cabinet.

President Mesic will be in Brussels from December 2 to December 5, where he will discuss with the highest functionaries of the European Union, of the European Parliament and of NATO, and he will attend a lecture on  the approaching of Croatia to the Euro-Atlantic organisations. The president and the prime minister discussed the over the institutions functioning in the time before the elections of a new cabinet, according to which it was stressed that all the institutions work in harmony with their authority, was written in the report from the President’s Office.

The president and the PM also discussed the preparing of activities connected with the membership of Croatia in United Nations Security Council.

PM Ivo Sanader informed President Mesic about the congratulations he received for well carried out elections, as well as for the success he reached, it was reported from the President’s Office.