The president of the Independent Democratic Serbian Party (SDSS), Milorad Pupovac, condemned tonight the performance of a member of parliament from the right-wing Homeland Movement, a minority partner in Prime Minister Andrej Plenković's government, who sang a song praising Ustasha leader Ante Pavelić.
"This song, like other songs that glorify the Ustasha, represents the glorification of evil and a threat not only to me, but to Serbs and members of other minority groups," Pupovac told Dnevnik.hr.
He assessed that this, like other similar chants, represents a hostile act towards the constitutional order and Croatia itself.
Croatian media today released a video clip showing DP MP and former Minister of Agriculture Josip Dabro singing the song "When Stjepan Radić Died", also known as "1928", in Komletinci, a village in Vukovar-Syrmia County, this weekend.
Dabro then sang the line "in Madrid there is a tomb of gold, in it lies the leader of all Croats", referring to the Ustasha leader Ante Pavelić, who was buried in the Spanish capital, and said that it was "only for Milorad", alluding to the leader of the Serbian national minority in Croatia, Milorad Pupovac.
Josip Dabro is known to the Croatian public as the former Minister of Agriculture who resigned in early 2025 after the media published a video of him shooting a gun out the window while driving a car, from the passenger seat, and soon after a video of him letting his son use an automatic weapon. As a result, he was charged with violating the rights of the child, as well as for illegal possession of weapons.
Croatian Social Liberal Party MP Dario Hrebak said in response to Dabra's latest video that "enough" is Ustashaism and announced the possibility of leaving the ruling coalition led by Andrej Plenković's Croatian Democratic Union.
The ruling coalition has a slim majority of 76 MPs, and HSLS has two of them, so with their exit, the ruling coalition would lose its majority.
Hrebak told RTL that Dabar's statement would be scandalous and that he would skip the next meeting of the ruling coalition.
HDZ official Krunoslav Katičić wrote on the Iks website tonight that contemporary Croatia cannot be based on any failed totalitarian regime, but rather on "national unity and the victory of the Croatian people and Croatian defenders in a just, legitimate, defensive and liberation war - as clearly stated in the Constitution."
"Condemnation of the crimes of all totalitarian regimes and respect for all victims is a European and general civilizational value," Katičić wrote, as reported by the Hina agency.
Opposition MPs also condemned Dabar's statement, with Green-Left Party Mozmoje MP Urša Raukar-Gamulin writing on social media that it is a shame that "Plenković's ruling coalition" consists of people who celebrate the leader of the genocidal Ustasha regime.
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