No commitment to party means no to voters

Hebrang is not a bit discouraged by the poll results, classifying him among the most unpopular candidates

I have only one sentence for Milan Bandić - If you don't pledge allegiance to the party, the same goes for the voters, commented today HDZ presidential candidate Andrija Hebrang a candidacy of the mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandić. Hebrang said it at the press conference in the HDZ headquarters, in which he also presented his own web page www.hebrang.com. on which HDZ Presidium members have signed his own candidacy.

First signature in a support to his candidcy was assured by the party president and the president of the Croatian government Jadranka Kosor, who's assured that Hebrang will provide "excellent election results". - There, first female signature for his luck - told Kosor, reminding that women make 52 percent of the total electoral registry in Croatia.

She also reported that the HDZ Presidium commented during a short session on Dragan Primorac presidential candidacy, who according to the party Constitution, over the accentuation of his own candidacy was automatically erased from the HDZ membership.

- It's something Primorac could have expected it himself. The party Constitution is clear on the issue - explained Kosor, saying that all of the HDZ bodies decided on Andrija Hebrang as the presidential candidate. Hebrang himself emphasized, that apart from his counter-candidates, he differs in his approach, not only by refering to the criticisms, but also by providing a possible solutions, in which he avails his professional experience gathered over different fields over the decades.

- I also differ by being a congruent politician, comitted to my party, for if you don't pledge allegiance to the party, the same goes for the voters - he said. Hebrang emphasizes that he's by far the poorest among the candidates and that the joint property of him and his wife doesn't even exceed a half of their salaries earned in their lifetimes.

- I take it it's far more valuable than the oranges -

Quostioned about, whether he'll use the same tactics as his adversaries, such as giving out certain things to the voters, Hebrang responded that the only thing he's going to give out will be his own electoral programme and a guarantee that in the next five years in a position of the Croatian president he'll represent the state interests with a dignity and he won't say bad things about his predecessors. - I take it it's far more valuable than the oranges - he said.

He told the voters that as a president he'll do everything in his power that Croatia utilizes the favourable EU surroundings in gaining European standards, that he'll advocate for the reforms enforcement, ten-year general education will be completely free, including the school manuals and transportation costs, and the subjects will be decreased from the current 15 to a 9 by each school year.

He announced that the national symbols such are the national flag and the hymn will be raised to a level of dignity, that he'll pay respects to the Church but also the reles of the secular state. The foreign policy will cover the issues of the introduction of the Economic official, responsable for the searching of the new markets, and he'll also depoliticize security services and obliterate any given associations between the intelligence coummunity and the Mafia.