In Pula on Friday, SDP President Peja Grbin endorsed SDP candidate for Istrian prefect Danijel Feric, calling the campaign about concrete things and what Istria needs – the economy, protection and care for the environment, care for the elderly, education.

This is what politics should be guided by, he added. SDP candidate Danijel Feric received 22.05% of the vote in the first round and enters the runoff with Boris Miletic, the candidate of the IDS, ISU-PIP coalition, the Greens, who received 46.77% of the vote in the first round." If there is one thing we need to confront, it is ideas and attitudes and thinking about how to make our society better," Grbin said. He urged citizens in Pula and Istria to go to the polls on Sunday and to choose change, or what he called a "fairer Pula and Istria". Grbin stated that the campaign, especially in the last few days, has turned into 'spitting, insulting, lying and name-calling throughout Croatia and has unfortunately turned into physical violence'." We had death threats against some candidates, one SDP candidate had his tires slashed again. I condemn this in the strongest possible terms because if you disagree with someone, if you feel that someone's ideas are not good, then say it publicly, invite people to vote no, but attack someone, attack people and property, insult and belittle, threaten families, that is not acceptable," he said. This is not something that Croatia should be, and yet, Grbin added, "as a Local, it is not something I expected in Istria". He said that sdp candidates, wherever they were – from Međimurje to Dubrovnik-Neretva County, talked about concrete things, about programs or how to make life in their municipalities, cities and counties better." I'm immensely proud of that. That's the way the campaign should be run. Insults, belittlings, fake leaflets it's something that actually disgusts people with politics, it's something that leads our society into apathy. If anyone thinks that the development of Croatia, Zagreb and Istria will be helped by insulting and lying about the candidate and threatening him, he certainly will not. We will only get worse, and that is why I condemn this kind of campaign in the strongest possible terms," Grbin said.SDP candidate for Istrian prefect Danijel Feric said that on May 30th he is moving to build a better, fairer and fairer Istria." As prefect, I am already starting on Monday with the realization of what I have been saying throughout Istria. Already in the first week we make the decision to close the county Waste Management Center Kastijun, then together with all mayors and chiefs we sign a Letter of Intent for the construction of Retirement Homes so that our third-age citizens do not wait ten years for a place in the home," Ferić said.He also announced that he wants to provide children in Istria with one-shift classes, that they will move to revitalize entrepreneurial zones and build communal infrastructure.