Slovenian Skrinjaric Now Dictates Referendum

After Vincenc resigned, the new head of SSN is Skrinjaric, and the party is set on a referendum on Croatia.

Yesterday the Slovenian premier Borut Pahor met with the head of the SSN (Party of the Slovenian People) at the time, Zdenko Vinkov-Vincenc, in order to discuss their insistence of a referendum on the ratification of the protocol to allow Croatia into NATO.

After the meeting, Vincenc resigned from his position as president of the party, and even though he could not answer questions that concern the SSN, he could say why he regined.

“I reached a compromise with the premier” said Vincenc briefly.

I convinced him on pulling the signatures. He did not dare to pull the signatures without the acceptance of his party, so he resigned so that he would not have to participate in filing the demand for the referendum

Marjan Podobnik on Vincenc

“I convinced him on pulling the signatures. He did not dare to pull the signatures without the acceptance of his party, so he resigned so that he would not have to participate in filing the demand for the referendum” said Podobnik.

Podobnik repeated that he hopes that the party whose new leader Lovro Skrinjaric is to meet with premier Borut Pahor today, will pull back the signatures, and that it is not in their interests to stop the entry of Croatia into NATO, but the protection of Slovenian interests.

He has a lot of faith in the people that left the party together with Vincenc.

“They have no hate. They are not bad people like Zmago Jelincic, they are not chauvinists. They are very correct and honourable people, and because they could not convince the others to stop collecting signatures, they left the party” claims Podobnik.

It is still not known how the new leader of SSN will act. However, Borut Pahor is “on the field” today, and will try to convince Skrinjaric to stop insisting on the referendum.