Former Croatian PM returns to politics

Mon, 04 Jan 2010

Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader says he is returning to politics because his party had a very poor result in the most recent election.

He said that the fact that the conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) only garnered 12 percent of the vote in the first round of the presidential election last Sunday motivated him to re-enter politics.

"I made this decision because in the first round HDZ got the worst result since the founding of the party in 1989," he added.

Sanader, 56, who resigned unexpectedly last summer, told reporters in Zagreb on Sunday that his decision to retire from politics "was totally wrong."

His return to the political stage could jeopardize current Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor's government and lead to new elections.

Sanader served as prime minister from 2003 until he unexpectedly retired from politics in July 2009.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115291§ionid=351020606.