(ANSA-AFP) - ZAGREB, MAY 8 - Croatia's ruling conservative
party has reached a deal with a right-wing party to form a new
coalition government following last month's vote, a spokesman
said on Wednesday. The alliance is set to shift the country to
the right again, after pro-European incumbent Prime Minister
Andrej Plenkovic moved the governing Croatian Democratic Union
(HDZ) towards the centre. Plenkovic's HDZ and a centre-left
coalition led by the Social Democrats (SDP) have been scrambling
to form a governing coalition since April's elections. But Marko
Milic said that the HDZ -- the main governing party since
independence in 1991 -- and the nationalist right-wing Homeland
Movement (DP) have now "reached an agreement on the formation of
a new parliamentary majority and structure of a new government".
The new government will be led by Plenkovic, who has held the
office in the Balkan nation since 2016. (ANSA-AFP).
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