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SDP focuses on functional state, security, and economic growth
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SDP focuses on functional state, security, and economic growth

From Večernji List · () Croatian

Translated from Croatian, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • SDP President Siniša Hajdaš Dončić outlined the party's key priorities for the next term: a functional state, security, and increased added value in the economy.
  • The party's program focuses on improving public services, healthcare, education, and ensuring food and energy security, alongside economic reforms to boost domestic production and technology.
  • Hajdaš Dončić expressed optimism about a coalition agreement with Možemo! by October, noting only minor programmatic differences.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Croatia is prioritizing a functional state, enhanced security, and economic growth with higher added value for its next mandate, according to party president Siniša Hajdaš Dončić. Speaking at the party's program workshops, Hajdaš Dončić stated that these priorities are shaped by discussions with citizens, entrepreneurs, and young people who expect efficient public services, accessible healthcare, quality education, affordable housing, and secure food and energy supplies.

The first area is a state that works. We all pay taxes, we all live for us in this, probably the most beautiful corner of the world. We have expectations from the state to provide us with quality public service. We have expectations that it will provide us with quality healthcare, public healthcare, not push us towards private hospitals and practices and polyclinics.

— Siniša Hajdaš DončićExplaining the SDP's focus on improving public services and healthcare.

Hajdaš Dončić emphasized the need for a state that "works," providing quality public services and healthcare without pushing citizens towards private options. He indicated that SDP is developing concrete measures to reduce waiting lists in healthcare and strengthen public education. The concept of security, he added, now extends beyond border defense to include food and energy security, affordable housing, and care for the elderly.

Economically, SDP aims to shift Croatia away from being solely reliant on imports. Hajdaš Dončić stressed the importance of strengthening domestic production, developing new technologies, increasing energy independence, and supporting local agriculture. He criticized the country's slow growth compared to nations like Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, attributing it to missed developmental opportunities and a lack of a new economic model.

We cannot remain a country that lives exclusively from imports, that has low added value in manufacturing, that is dependent on imported energy, that is dependent on imported food.

— Siniša Hajdaš DončićHighlighting the need for economic reform and increased domestic production.

Looking ahead, Hajdaš Dončić anticipates a coalition agreement with the political party Možemo! by October. He described the programmatic differences between SDP and Možemo! as "milligram," suggesting a high degree of alignment. The party also aims to implement changes in governance, including a new model for electing Constitutional Court judges, to foster a more dignified and happy life for Croatian citizens.

The differences are milligram, and I expect that we will sign a coalition agreement in October.

— Siniša Hajdaš DončićExpressing confidence in reaching a coalition agreement with Možemo!.
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Originally published by Večernji List in Croatian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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