Prime Minister: Elections will be held when epidemiological conditions allow

It is our desire to hold elections when epidemiological circumstances allow it, said Prime Minister Andrej Plenković today, answering journalists' questions about when elections would take place given the coronavirus situation.

“In accordance with our political evaluation, we will make decisions on when elections will be held. At the moment, no one, not even bodies of the Croatian Democratic Union, has discussed this in detail,” said Prime Minister Andrej Plenković.

“We are in an election year. If elections are held in June, July, August or September - those are all nuances,” he said.

Plenković said he did not discuss calling elections with President Zoran Milanović. He recalled that the last elections were held on September 11, 2016.

“The government is currently in its third year and seventh month in office,” said Plenković.

Plenković said that as a country we can be extremely pleased with the manner in which we prevented the spread of coronavirus in the context of the global pandemic and epidemic in Croatia. He added that economic and social measures were extremely well received.

Commenting on allegations of politicization of the Civil Protection Headquarters, Plenković said that the opposition had many reasons to be unhappy and that he understood this.

“The Civil Protection Headquarters of the Republic of Croatia were appointed by the Government, with representatives of ministries as members, these are people who primarily have a political mandate because it was given to them by the Government. And the thesis about the politicization of the work of the Headquarters simply does not stand, it also contains experts and epidemiological recommendations that they gave, and they have a head and a tail and are not any kind of improvisation, but rather an easing of measures according to circumstances,” said Plenković.

Source: HRT