Reformists president Radimir Cacic, SDP vice president Sinisa Hajdas-Doncic and Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomasevic said on Tuesday they would support a bill of amendments to the Criminal Code banning Ustasha insignia at the initiative of representatives of national minorities in the Croatian parliament.

“We will absolutely support it, that has always been our position,” said Cacic in Brezovica ahead of the central Antifascist Struggle Day commemoration.

He said that no government in Croatia so far, not even the current one, had found the strength to adopt such a law.

He thinks that the fact that Antifascist Struggle Day commemoration is being held under the auspices of the government and that Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has come to Brezovica is a great message, even though he did not attend previous commemorations.

“That positions Croatia where it really belongs, among the bearers of the antifascist struggle in Europe and the world,” he pointed out.

Everyone who knows anything about the National Liberation Struggle, knows that Croatia was the bearer of that resistance, not because of ideology but because of awareness that it must resist that, Čačić added.

He said that his position in the ruling majority was the same “today and yesterday and tomorrow”. “As long as the government adheres to the basic programme guidelines, and for now it claims it will adhere to them,” he said, adding that this primarily refers to the agreement on the Zagreb-Lepoglava-Varazdin-Cakovec high-speed railway, the north agreement and several large projects.

SDP deputy president Sinisa Hajdas-Doncic also announced his support for the amendments to the Criminal Code in the Croatian parliament and expressed hope that the ruling majority would accept them.

He said that the arrival of Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic at the central Antifascist Struggle Day commemoration in Brezovica could be an announcement of some new times.

“I would like to know whether there will be specific acts after this, besides amendments to the Criminal Code, an affirmative attitude towards the antifascist struggle, but time will show,” Hajdas-Doncic said in Brezovica.

Zagreb square not to be given back its former name, Marshal Tito Square

Zagreb Mayor Tomasevic said in Brezovica that the MPs of his party and its partners would support the amendment of the Criminal Code to ban Ustasha insignia and salute.

“We will support it so that there aren’t different interpretations by different courts, but that it is as clear as day what is allowed and what isn’t,” Tomasevic told the press.

He said it was good that the central Antifascist Struggle Day commemoration in Brezovica today was attended by almost the entire state leadership, stressing that “almost everyone has come, except Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandrokovic”.

Asked whether he would give back Republic of Croatia Square its former name, Marshal Tito Square, he said he wouldn’t for now as it wasn’t the priority of the city government at the moment.