2/ While many things can happen until 2028, when next general election is to take place, this bodes very poorly for HDZ two and half months before local and regional elections.
It shows that Croatian electorate is getting increasingly displeased with current state of national economy, even so that SDP, party widely seen as weak and incompetently led, looking like better alternative than party that led Croatia for 26 years out 34 years of Croatian independence.