Slovene MP Gantar: Croatia to Enter NATO in April

Pavel Gantar, the president of the Slovenian National Assembly, told Bebic he is convinced that there will be no referendum.

At the end of an outing on the Seine River on Saturday, that ended a two day conference of the EU Parliament and candidate countries, the president of the Slovenian National Assembly Pavel Gantar approached the president of the Croatian Parliament Luka Bebic, and confirmed that the initiative for the referendum on Croatia’s entry into NATO will certainly not succeed, and that Slovenia will hand in all necessary documentation on time, so that Croatia can participate at the NATO summit in April as a full member.

“I can confirm that the initiative will certainly not succeed. The organizers of the referendum succeeded in collecting around 500 signatures in the first seven days, and in order for the initiative of start a referendum to be successful they need to collect more than one thousand signatures per day” said Gantar.

This was the second contact that Bebic has with a Slovenian colleague in Paris after they met briefly in Paris without any concrete results.

On Friday, February 20, the 35 day time frame started in which the members of the SSN (Party of the Slovenian People) need to collect 40,000 signatures for the referendum. The deadline ends on March 26.