Eurasia Press & News
The son of Franjo Tudjman, Croatia’s late wartime nationalist president, will run for the same post in 2010 elections, he said in a HINA news agency report Tuesday.
Miroslav Tudjman, 62, would stand for president as an “independent candidate,” he was quoted as saying in a statement.
“It’s a last chance for the Croatian people to come together, to solve problems…with a head of state of high integrity and vast experience,” he added.
The former leader of a small right-wing group and head of Croatia’s intelligence services in the 1990s, Miroslav Tudjman is currently a professor at Zagreb’s Philosophy Faculty.
Franjo Tudjman died in 1999 with question marks about his role in atrocities during Croatia’s 1991-95 war of independence against rebel ethnic Serbs who were backed by Belgrade.
He was succeeded by Stipe Mesic, who is due to step down at the end of two terms in 2010.
A presidential candidate must collect 10,000 signatures to register for the election, a date for which is yet to be set.
