Hajdas Doncic convinced of a good result, members not exactly: ‘SDP now urgently need changes’
Now it is It is clear to everyone that the party needs to be carried out by structural changes, and this is the most related to rejuvenation and work on the ground. Although a step of choice was made at all levels according to the principle of « one member, one voice », this has now proven to be missed. We get people who are primarily engaged in bringing membership that will vote for them in the internal elections and thus create a springboard for Parliament. And they are not engaged in politics and the ground that they should be a basic task, one prominent SDP member tells us after the defeat on Sunday.
SDP president Sinisa Hajdas Doncic relativized the defeat on election night, saying that three main goals were fulfilled: increasing the number of councilors, an increase in counties in which there were in power and retaining authorities in Zagreb with we can!. However, in the first round of the election, they lost Sisak and Rijeka, who were their strongholds. In the second, they received Pula and the County of Koprivnica-Križevci, and they expected at least more of the Istrian, Zagreb and Varaždin counties. In Dalmatia, their contenders failed to make a turnaround in counties and their seats, and it did not pass the hope that they would remove the HDZ in Karlovac and Pozega.
– We had a positive effect after Milanovic’s victory in the presidential election, support in the polls grew, and then Plenkovic defeated us on the field. This should not happen – this high -ranking member of the party continues.
Both he and some other we spoke to think that Sinisa Hajdas Doncic will continue to lead the party because it has not been a year since he was elected and inherited all problems. But that he has to reform in the party and refresh her. It was mentioned that Varaždin Mayor Neven Bosilj could take dissatisfied and try to take over the party president, but our interlocutors say they do not believe in the scenario. Although the SDP in Zagreb won eight members of the coalition with we can!, Three more than he had, part of the membership is extremely dissatisfied because all the city organization was determined by Hajdas Doncic.
– Plenkovic a lot He manages to include young and talented people who are willing to work for the common good and not for their interests. But it’s not just a matter of youth, everyone has to feel involved and to contribute as a party’s work. If it all comes down to one person, then the other does not participate – the other member of the SDP tells us, which criticizes the party president and his statement that he will be a prime minister for two terms and that the SDP has gone well in the elections.
