77th Vote

Furio Radin, MS representing Italian minority, is the man whose vote would allow Ivo Sanader to receive mandate for forming new Croatian government. Radin claims that he made such decision after consulting "Italian community and Istrian people". I doubt that IDS would be that enthusiastic about HDZ government. Their enthusiasm, if it exists, could be explained with the view that right-wing nationalist government in Zagreb would press Istrian voters to react by gathering around single regionalist banner, in this case IDS.