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Croatia’s Leader Takes Country Rightward With Coalition Pact

  • Plenkovic to form coalition with nationalist Homeland Movement
  • Croatian premier suffered electoral setback in April

Andrej Plenkovic 

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Croatia’s prime minister was on course to steer the Adriatic nation to the political right as he agreed to form a coalition with an anti-immigration nationalist party, though he pledged to maintain his agenda.

Andrej Plenkovic’s Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, will aim to secure a parliamentary majority with Homeland Movement, the ruling party said in a statement. Homeland Movement was founded in 2020 after a group of officials split from the conservative party in protest as Plenkovic moderated HDZ’s message in a move to the political center.

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