Croats want Tito's effigy in euro coins, according to a poll

Most Croats would like to see the effigy of Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz "Tito" (1892-1980) on euro coins when the country assumes the single currency, according to a survey of a information portal.

Zagreb, Nov 11 (EFE) .- The majority of Croats would like to see the effigy of the Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz "Tito" (1892-1980) on euro coins when the country assumes the single currency, according to a survey of an information portal.

According to that survey, published by the Otvoreno portal, the face of the former communist leader was chosen by 48% of the respondents to decorate the national face of future Croatian coins of two euros.

The second place, with only 14%, went to the late Catholic Archbishop of Zagreb, Alojzije Stepinac, whose canonization is in course in the Vatican.

7% of the participants in the survey opted for a neutral symbol, as natural monuments, while 6% chose the first president of the Croatia independent, Franjo Tudjman.

The euro coins have a common reverse, the same in all countries, and a national obverse that each country can choose, although following a series of criteria.

Although it is not a representative survey, since it only involved 1,661 users of that portal, other opinion polls conducted in recent years show that the communist dictator is one of the most popular historical figures in Croatia.

The elimination last September of Tito's name from a central square in Zagreb was accompanied by protests by those who defend that Broz was one of the most prominent anti-fascist European leaders during World War II.

Tito's defenders also argue that the 1978 Constitution, adopted under his supervision, recognized the right of independence to the federated republics that formed Yugoslavia, something that allowed Croatia Separate from the rest of the country in 1991 and then be recognized internationally.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic announced two weeks ago that Croatia will begin the process soon. of introduction of the euro, to be able to enter the eurozone in about eight years.