The non-parliamentary far-right Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights (A-HSP) on Saturday held a protest outside the offices of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in downtown Zagreb, demanding elections to be called under a new election law and the HDZ to terminate its coalition with the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS).

A-HSP leader Drazen Keleminec said that Croatia’s government was protecting murderers from Ovcara (a former farm outside Vukovar and the site of a 1991 war crime), mentioning in that context Djordje Curcic, deputy head of Vukovar-Srijem County.  

He called upon Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and SDSS leader Milorad Pupovac to reveal the location of a second mass grave at Ovcara, claiming that the government knew where it was but was hiding it.  

A minority, led by Pupovac and SDSS Main Assembly president Vojislav Stanimirovic, is running the country, said Keleminec, adding that they insult Croatia while their coalition partner, the HDZ, is rewarding them.  

The HDZ is aware that after the next election it will no longer have any maneuvering space because the Croatian People’s Party (HNS) will not pass the election threshold and it is therefore planning a coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in order to stay in power, said Keleminec.  

“The HDZ and the SDP have plundered and destroyed Croatia and must disappear from the political scene so that the country can prosper,” Keleminec said at the rally twhich was attended by about 20 protesters and by just as many police officers.  

The protesters carried Croatian flags without historical regional coats-of-arms and a flag of the Croatian Defence Forces (HOS), the armed wing of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) in the 1991-95 Homeland War.