Sing-A-Long-A-Sanader

The Tudjmanov trg decision aside, yesterday had an even more direct connection to the late president - it being the seventh anniversary of his death in 1999. With which a government delegation laying wreaths at his grave in Mirogoj cemetery, led by prime minister Ivo Sanader, broke into commemorative song.

Their 20-minute set list, according to Jutarnji list:

• Djani Maršan's Bože, čuvaj Hrvatsku (God save Croatia)


• Fala (Thank you)


• Tereza Kesovija's Moja Dalmacija (My Dalmacija)


• Miroslav Škoro/Zlatni dukati's Ne dirajte mi ravnicu (Hands off my plains)


• Zovi, samo zovi (Call, just call)


• Zdravo Djevo, kraljice Hrvata (Hail the Virgin, Queen of the Croats)


• Lijepa naša domovina (Our beautiful homeland)

HDZ deputy Andrija Hebrang tells JL that they decided to sing 'several appropriate, patriotic songs' as background to the 45-minute ceremony, and that one or two of the numbers would have been particularly special to Tudjman - particularly Bože, čuvaj Hrvatsku, which he adopted as HDZ's anthem in the early 1990s.