{"id":22641,"date":"2023-04-12T14:52:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=22641"},"modified":"2023-04-12T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T12:53:09","slug":"president-milanovic-supreme-court-must-comply-with-its-obligation-and-make-a-decision-in-order-to-end-legal-uncertainty-of-citizens-in-loan-conversion-case","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-supreme-court-must-comply-with-its-obligation-and-make-a-decision-in-order-to-end-legal-uncertainty-of-citizens-in-loan-conversion-case\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107: Supreme Court must comply with its obligation and make a decision in order to end legal uncertainty of citizens in loan conversion case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 met on Tuesday in the Office of the President with the representatives of the Franak Association, the coordinator of the economic and legal team Goran Aleksi\u0107 and activist Maru\u0161ka Matulovi\u0107. At the meeting, the representatives informed President Milanovi\u0107 of the main problems relating to the Supreme Court\u2019s pending decision on the conversion of Swiss franc loans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Franak Association\u2019s coordinator Goran Aleksi\u0107 reminded that the Supreme Court has not yet made a decision on whether clients who converted Swiss franc loans are entitled to compensation \u2013 although seven years have passed since the conversion and almost five since the final class judgement. Mr. Aleksi\u0107 considers this to be a major problem, especially because the statute of limitations on filing single lawsuits expires in 65 days, which will leave 35,000 individuals without the possibility to sue and seek potential compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince the Constitutional Court upheld the validity of the conversion, the Supreme Court only needs to decide whether citizens are entitled to compensation. However, for almost five years the Supreme Court has not made a decision, which discourages citizens, as they do not know whether it makes sense or not to initiate court proceedings,\u201d Mr. Aleksi\u0107 warned. He described the unenviable legal position of those clients who converted their loans and called out the Government of the Republic of Croatia for ignoring this problem. He added that this does not surprise him because in its reply to the European Court of Justice, the Government argued that clients renounced compensation by converting Swiss franc loans, which is untrue according to Mr. Aleksi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After speaking with the representatives of the Franak Association, President Milanovi\u0107 said the following: \u201cIt is unacceptable that the judges of the Supreme Court did not make a decision on the right to compensation until the last hour, that is, almost until the statute of limitations expires. The consequence of the Supreme Court judges\u2019 inaction is legal uncertainty in which the scapegoat is the weaker party, in this case citizens, and not banks. The Supreme Court must comply with its obligation and make a decision in order to end the legal uncertainty that citizens have been exposed to for almost five years. Without going into the content of the decision itself, I believe that there is no justification for not resolving this multi-year dispute. In order to achieve legal certainty and the equality of all citizens before the law, the judges of the Supreme Court already had to make this decision and thus comply with their constitutional obligation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Milanovi\u0107 was accompanied at the meeting by the Head of the Office of the President of the Republic Orsat Miljeni\u0107 and Special Adviser to the President of the Republic for the Economy Velibor Ma\u010dki\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n<!--GALLERY BLOCK-->\n<div class=\"c-lightbox-gallery js-lightbox\">\n                <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSC_0281-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSC_0281-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSC_0296-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSC_0296-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSC_0304-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSC_0304-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSC_0307-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DSC_0307-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n        <\/div>\n<!--end GALLERY BLOCK-->\n\n\n\n<p>PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia\/Marko Beljan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 met on Tuesday in the Office of the President with the representatives of the Franak Association, the coordinator of the economic and legal team Goran Aleksi\u0107 and activist Maru\u0161ka Matulovi\u0107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22636,"template":"","news-cat":[12],"class_list":["post-22641","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-cat-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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