MP Davor Bernardic, formerly leader of the main opposition SDP party, and now member of the Social Democrats Group said on Wednesday he did not regret nominating Zoran Milanovic for president but that he did not like the president's quarrelsome rhetoric, saying he should be a factor of stability rather than conflict.

He was commenting on Milanovic’s recent contentious statements about the 1995 Srebrenica genocide and the 1991 wartime murder of the Zec family in Zagreb.

Bernardic told the press he felt Milanovic was “a corrective in society.” Asked to explain given the way Milanovic communicates, he said the president was good at detecting certain problems in society but that he did not like “his quarrelsome rhetoric” and that the president “should show by example that certain things should be done differently.”

He said public rows were not good when it came to tragedies such as Srebrenica and the Zec family murder or important dates in Croatian history.

Bernardic said “one of the worst genocides in the 20th century was committed in Srebrenica and we should all be aware of that,” adding that it was “a monstrous, inhuman event which definitely deserves special respect at every opportunity.”