Workers' Front (RF) leader Katarina Peovic said on Wednesday that the break-up between partners in the Green-Left Bloc was not good for politics on the left spectrum, and she hopes that this is just a temporary phase.

Peovic told a news conference that her party had received an electronic mail two days ago in which the We Can party informed them that they would not run together in local elections.

Croatia is due to hold local elections in late May 2021. According to media reports the major stumbling block on the left seems to be the choice of possible mayoral candidates for the City of Zagreb and the City of Rijeka.

The We Can mayoral candidate for Zagreb, Tomislav Tomasevic, said on Tuesday that the We Can and the Zagreb is Ours parties had decided not to cooperate with the Workers’ Front in the forthcoming local elections, while Mate Kapovic of the Workers’ Front posted on his Facebook profile that the “Green-Left Coalition “has unfortunately broken up.”

Asked by the press whether she would leave the Green and Left Bloc’s parliamentary club, Peovic, who is the only parliamentary deputy of her party, said that she would still give consideration to that possibility.

We are in the parliament for the first time. I do not know what my departure from the club would mean, and how that can affect RF’s visibility RF in parliament, she added

Peovic, who has already expressed her ambition to run in Rijeka’s mayoral election, said that cooperation between these parties in the Zagreb City Assembly and the national legislature had been good.