Novi Fosili, the veteran Croatian band who achieved a fourth place for the then-Yugoslavia at the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ja sam za Ples/I Wanna Dance, are performing in the parliamentary election campaign for the main Croatian left-wing party SDP.
The band will also be among acts performing on Zagreb's main square on New Year's Eve next month. They are popular in all of the former Yugoslavia, and band member Rajko Dujmić ,composer ofthe winning song Rock me, performed by Riva in the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest, took part in Dora 2005 withthe band 4 Asa,while singer Sanja Dole�al has hosted a chat show on Croatian RTL.
In the last parliamentary elections in 2003, the country's controversial2006 Eurovision entrant Severina (Croatia 2006)was the main act for the SDP. Earlier this year she was quoted as saying that the party's new leader, Zoran Milanović, 41, was the "fittest politician"!
Other names familiar to Dora viewers are singing for the ruling Right party the HDZ, including Ivana Banfić, Nina Badrić and Jacques Houdek, whilst Giuliano is singing for the extreme right party HSP.
Singer Šajeta, one of the most famous sons of Opatija, the usual location of Dora, will be singing for an Istrian Democratic party. In the presidential elections of 2004, he released a humorous song called 'Party za Ekipu' (Party for the Gang) about President Stipe Mesić, in which Severina is mentioned!
The Croatian parliamentary elections take place on Sunday 24th November.
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