Prime Minister Is not Telling the Truth, HDZ Did not Allow Zoran Milanović to Head the National Committee for Monitoring Accession Negotiations with the EU

So that the nontruth uttered by Prime Minister Andrej Plenković wouldn’t become, definitely understandable to him, media “framing” – a nontruth that the President of the Republic Zoran MIlanović refused to head the National Committee for Monitoring Accession Negotiations with the EU while he was the leader of the SDP and Opposition leader – the Office of the President will once again willingly refresh the Prime Minister’s memory, because as he himself says, it is important for the Croatian public to know.

Zoran MIlanović was the candidate of his former party for chairman of the National Committee for Monitoring Accession Negotiations with the EU, but the Croatian Parliament elected Vesna Pusić by a majority of 84 members of Parliament who cast the deciding vote including members of his HDZ party. Or perhaps Andrej Plenković doesn’t recognize the HDZ as his party? Fifty-three members abstained. Fine? The President of the Republic, then president of the SDP, warned that the National Committee should be headed by the president of the largest Opposition party, because as he then said, “this guarantees the stability of the Alliance for Europe”, “this office has a far-reaching symbolic meaning”, and without that “the National Committee loses its political significance and meaning”.

Zoran Milanović couldn’t change the HDZ’s wish that the leader of the Opposition can absolutely not head the National Committee, but he and the SDP remained in the Alliance for Europe because these were affairs of the state that were important for Croatia. That’s the truth. And another nontruth that the Prime Minister is media framing – relying on the fact that everyone has a short memory – won’t change history that depicts that his role in Croatia’s accession to the European Union was and remains on the level of an exile from Paris.