\u201cOn the whole, this is an activity in which people present programmes as if they are candidates for Prime Minister, and they are not. The Constitution is very clear. The President recommends, Parliament accepts or rejects, and before that some bodies give an opinion which is not binding. I don\u2019t know what isn\u2019t clear in the Croatian Constitution. Had we abided by the Constitution, we could have agreed, that\u2019s not immoral. There was a public call, what should I do? I have to recommend someone. The candidate is judge Dobroni\u0107 and I think it will do Croatia good if Dobroni\u0107 is appointed. If not, it is up to them to explain why. I explained why he should be appointed, he is an excellent judge,\u201d said President Zoran Milanovi\u0107, commenting on yesterday\u2019s presentation of Supreme Court Presidential candidates\u2019 programmes before the parliamentary judiciary committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President also commented on the anti-corruption operation by USKOK (Croatian State Prosecutor\u2019s Office for the Suppression of Organized Crime and Corruption) and the police in Me\u0111imurje, in which Me\u0111imurje County Prefect Matija Posavec was arrested and SDP MP Stjepan Kova\u010d was suspected of taking part in illegal activities. \u201cI know nothing about this other than what was published in the media. These are those complicated moments when the public knows nothing. DORH (State Attorney\u2019s Office) and USKOK know, they need to be trusted. I hope that for the sake of public confidence this will end somehow and that these arrests will be justified. If not, public confidence will erode. The worst thing is when the aftereffects last for years, when there are no indictments and when people are on trial for 15 years. I do not support anyone, but if people are detained, if they are deprived of freedom, then I believe that those who detained them did it for good reason,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Journalists also asked the President of the Republic to comment on the announced visit of Montenegrin President Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107 to Croatia. President Milanovi\u0107 pointed out that President \u0110ukanovi\u0107 was coming at his invitation and added: \u201cThe topics of conversation will be those that would be otherwise. Given what has been happening and is happening in Montenegro, they will also be somewhat different. Montenegro is above all a neighbouring country and only then a member of NATO, and it is our concern. I do not enthrone bishops and archbishops in Cetinje and Nik\u0161i\u0107. That is not my job or of any politician in Croatia. In Montenegro, fortunately, it ended without human casualties, and I believe that it will remain so. This is my way of supporting the concept of a civil, secular Montenegro. We certainly do not interfere in the internal affairs of other neighbouring countries. What I am doing towards Bosnia and Herzegovina is not interference, it is just one position that is clear and that I am repeating all the time. There are more Croats living in Bosnia and Herzegovina than there are Montenegrins in Montenegro, let alone Serbs in Montenegro. We know our limit and some have obviously not learned that yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Press statement made today in the Office of the President by the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107, in which he commented on yesterday\u2019s presentation of Supreme Court Presidential candidates\u2019 programmes before the parliamentary judiciary committee, anti-corruption operations by USKOK and the police in Me\u0111imurje and the announced visit of Montenegrin President Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107 to Croatia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12051,"template":"","news-cat":[12],"class_list":["post-12053","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-cat-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n