"Counties constitute the modern and contemporary Croatia. They have been with us since 1993, and they have 27 years of tradition. The HDZ, which had 13 out of 20 county heads in the last local election, has a very clear position in favour of keeping the counties. There is no question about it, and the subject was never under question," Plenkovic said after a cabinet meeting, when journalists asked him why the HDZ thought that a small country such as Croatia still needed 20 counties and the City of Zagreb.
As for municipalities, he pointed out that the subject was discussed at the HDZ National Council, where Public Administration Minister Ivan Malenica proposed various models of reforms at the municipality level. One of the ideas is decreasing the number of local officials at the 2021 local election.
"We understand the problem, and we will go and solve it," he stated.
As for the question of whether he could imagine a government consisting of the HDZ, the Homeland Movement party leader Miroslav Skoro, Ivan Penava, who has just left the HDZ, and ethnic Serb leader Milorad Pupovac, for the sake of stability, the PM said it was still early to predict who will make up the future parliamentary majority.
Plenkovic thinks that citizens, and especially entrepreneurs, will recognise that the HDZ-led government had ensured political stability and predictability. He recalled that it was the key of their political message in 2016, and brought forth all the accomplishments of his government. The PM added that they were running for the next parliamentary election at a moment when they had rounded off all that was important and all they had dealt with during their time in office.
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