ZAGREB, October 25, 2018 - Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Davor Bernardić said on Thursday that he would honour any decision of the Conflict of Interest Commission after it initiated proceedings against him for receiving a scholarship from Zagreb's Cotrugli Business School.  The scholarship from the private company Cotrugli d.o.o., which owns Cotrugli Business School, is seen as a donation and an impermissible gift.

ZAGREB, October 1, 2018 - Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Davor Bernardić said on Monday that his party would call for a commission of inquiry for the fake texts scandal and wondered what the USKOK anti-corruption office, State Prosecutor's Office (DORH) and Chief State Prosecutor Dražen Jelenić were doing in investigating this case.

ZAGREB, September 19, 2018 - The start of Question Time in the Croatian parliament on Wednesday was marked by a verbal clash between Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Davor Bernardić and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković regarding the government's work, with Bernardić accusing the prime minister of failing to carry out any reforms in the past two years and protecting people who siphoned money from Agrokor, and Plenković responding that the SDP was a petty party and its members were whiners.

ZAGREB, September 18, 2018 - The Presidency and parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) met on Monday but failed to agree on how to resolve the crisis the party is in, with president Davor Bernardić saying he did not intend to resign and that big business and import lobbies were trying to take him down.

ZAGREB, September 15, 2018 - The Social Democratic Party (SDP) top officials gathered on Friday afternoon at an unknown location outside Zagreb to try to persuade party president Davor Bernardić to resign over the party's dissatisfaction with his leadership and poor ratings.

ZAGREB, September 8, 2018 - An informal group of 81 members of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Friday called on party chief Davor Bernardić to step down immediately over "his disastrous leadership" and his causing a major decline in the party ratings, demanding that elections for new party bodies be held by the end of the year and that all sanctions imposed on party members who have spoken critically about the situation in the SDP be withdrawn.

ZAGREB, Aug 28, 2018 - A member of the opposition Social Democratic Party's (SDP) presidency and parliament Bojan Glavašević left the party on Monday, dissatisfied that "the SDP, such as it has become, can't give an answer to even one important question regarding Croatia's future."

ZAGREB, August 20, 2018 - Social Democrat (SDP) leader Davor Bernardić said in Barban on Sunday that his position at the helm of the strongest opposition party was stable.

ZAGREB, July 14, 2018 - Four senior officials of Croatia's Social Democratic Party (SDP) have been suspended from their duties in the strongest opposition party, SDP leader Davor Bernardić told the press late on Saturday after a 12-hour meeting of the party's main committee.

ZAGREB, July 5, 2018 - Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Davor Bernardić said on Thursday that he did not intend to step down as party president, urging all members of his opposition party to preserve social democratic values and honour the party statute. Bernardić called for defusing tensions and discussing party issues within the party.