section_path: Reactions
section_name: Reactions
paragraph_text: Reactions
  
  The boycotts were widely popular across the several countries. One poll showed 84% of Slovenes supporting a boycott, with 78% intending to participate. A boycott was supported by 90% of Bosnian-Herzegovinians, while 89.5% of Croats stated that they would participate in their own boycott. A similar sentiment was echoed from Macedonians. Many national politicians supported the measures. Governments in the region have also begun talks with consumer organizations and retailers to tackle the issue.
  
  In Croatia, the government did not condemn the boycotts and on 30 January announced a price freeze on 70 consumer goods in response. The boycotts were endorsed by several Croatian parties, such as the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, Možemo, Most, and the Homeland Movement. The latter's Ante Šušnjar, the national minister of the economy, also endorsed it. The supermarket chains Kaufland and Konzum announced that they were implementing price caps on 1,000 and 250 products respectively.
  
  In North Macedonia, the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party endorsed the boycotts. The main opposition party, SDSM, also supported them, but blamed the current government and administration of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski for ignoring the opposition's plans to counter the price surges while managing the issue with "fake baskets".
  
  The Montenegrin prime minister, Milojko Spajić, supported the boycotts, with his vice minister of the economy, Nik Đeljošaj, asking the protestors to not include domestic workers. The Chamber of Commerce, whose members are owners of retail chains, and the Montenegrin Consumer Association opposed the measure.
  
  In Bulgaria, the Plovdiv branch of the Bulgarian Socialist Party was the first party to endorse the boycott. Delyan Peevski, the leader of DPS – A New Beginning, announced that his party would introduce a law aimed at controlling prices in response to the boycott.
  
  In Romania, Florin-Ionuț Barbu, the minister of agriculture, opposed the boycotts, stating that 70% of food products on Romanian shelves are locally made and that the boycotts would lead to the death of Romanian food processing. Former prime minister Florin Cîțu called for Romanians to boycott the state, not the retailers "where millions of Romanians work who pay the same taxes as us and are subject to the same communist regulations."