Turudi\u0107 is a man of the party, a party guy. They are trying to portray him as a person who will make order, when in reality he will be protecting Plenkovi\u0107 and his clique. Shameless, cynical, rude. Turudi\u0107 is a man who declared himself a HDZ member, without repercussions, is that a reference?! A very harrowing moment in which, out of many poor candidates, the one who is by far the worst emerges in the end, a man who should be the subject of an investigation. Plenkovi\u0107 is the problem. AP is the problem. The party is obediently keeping silent. That man wants repressive power by force and AP gives it to him right in front of the entire Croatian public,\u201d said the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107, commenting on Friday the Government\u2019s nomination of judge Ivan Turudi\u0107 as the State Attorney General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking about his function, as the President of the Republic, and what he could do in this case, President Milanovi\u0107 said that he can speak and \u201cencourage others to speak and oppose this type of institutional, civilizational violence and cynicism that has been going on since day one.\u201d \u201cThe problem lies with Plenkovi\u0107 and his minions and garden gnomes who raise their hands for the enslavement of the State,\u201d the President warned, reminding about the adoption of the so-called Lex AP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAP is coming, who wants to, above all, persecute journalists. They would not be prosecuted, but they would be harassed if they disclosed and revealed who committed a crime. And their crime consists of the fact that some people make it possible for the public to find out about the filth and thievery in which the people who are part of the Government and its inner circle are involved in. At the same time, there is a public call \u2013 what a farce \u2013 for a new State Attorney General, after he used up several of them. First there was Jelini\u0107, who was reckless, then came Zlata Hrvoj \u0160ipek, just before the last parliamentary elections. That (appointment) was corrupt and cowardly, as is the case now. That unfortunate man, Turudi\u0107, appears \u2013 out of all the judges, he is the least suitable by all criteria to be in that position, above all the criteria of political morality and autonomy. He is insisted on, and like a parrot he repeats all the elements of the explanation of that malicious law Lex AP, which is exactly what Plenkovi\u0107 wants to hear. Turudi\u0107 would prohibit all of this and make the (investigative) process secret again. He would make it impossible for the media to find out that Plenkovi\u0107\u2019s close associates are scoundrels and thieves. That must not be known,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 explained, adding that all those who support this effort are working against Croatian democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne needs to put an end to this. How should it be done? I see I\u2019m not the only one who thinks this way. This thievery, which is worse than it has ever been in more recent Croatian history, needs to be stopped. What we experienced during Sanader\u2019s period \u2013 and Turudi\u0107 was his guy \u2013 can be remembered as an insecure, erroneous period, but as a period of innocence compared to this mess we live in today,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 continued, calling on \u201cthose whose job it is\u201d to reflect over this, since \u201cthe appointment of Turudi\u0107 is a personnel appointment, whom the simple majority in Parliament will elect, thus confirming AP\u2019s will.\u201d \u201cAs things stand, he is most likely leaving Croatia, and he wants to have someone here who will hold his back. He chose the wrong person, the man is pathologically disloyal. He will turn his back on him at the first opportunity. Just as he destroyed Sanader, the man who had made him,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Milanovi\u0107 also commented on the warning measures in the judiciary. \u201cWhen everything is promised to everyone in a period when it is easy to manage the government and finances, seemingly giving everything to everyone, then it results in this kind of disharmony and disorder. I don\u2019t know whether the judges should get more. Those things should be talked about. But Plenkovi\u0107 is not used to having a conversation. He imposes, threatens and buys \u2013 with your money,\u201d the President said, adding that he does not know if the judges are right or wrong, but that they must understand that the independence of their authority does not mean absolute independence. \u201cThe Constitution prescribes the principle and need for mutual control over bodies and branches of government, legislative and judicial. They shouldn\u2019t set their own salaries because that would lead to total independence. And who has it? I don\u2019t have it; the Government has to ask Parliament, and it\u2019s a little different with the courts. Judges must understand that they are part of the system, that they share the fate of the country, that they must judge faster and more efficiently,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 believes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this context, he also commented on the case of pop singer Severina Vu\u010dkovi\u0107, and the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to annul a verdict in her favour related to her child. \u201cIt\u2019s been going on for nine years, that boy probably already went grey. Nine years. I don\u2019t know what his mother and father are like, but where are the courts? Who should take the blame? The President of the Supreme Court? He can\u2019t do anything about it. I don\u2019t know, maybe the Constitution is wrongly written, maybe something needs to be changed in it,\u201d said the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Journalists also asked President Milanovi\u0107 to comment on Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi\u0107\u2019s decision not to meet with \u017deljko Kom\u0161i\u0107 in Sarajevo. The President of the Republic first reminded that \u2013 after consulting with the representatives of the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina \u2013 he extended his support, in a press release, to the representatives of the Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks to continue the talks and agree on amendments to the Election Law, for this is in the interest of the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. \u201cIt will satisfy their basic needs and pride, and that their representatives are not chosen by others,\u201d the President underscored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI said that as long as Kom\u0161i\u0107 is the Chairman of the BiH Presidency, I would not go to Sarajevo officially. When he won\u2019t be, when Be\u0107irovi\u0107 comes, I will find a way to go there, without Kom\u0161i\u0107 being present. This is legitimate and feasible, if the other side wants it,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107. In his opinion, Prime Minister Plenkovi\u0107 went to Sarajevo with the intention of a photo being taken in which he is not present, but he did not achieve anything because the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte went to Kom\u0161i\u0107, even though Prime Minister Plenkovi\u0107 claimed that he further sensitized them to the problems of the Croats in BiH. \u201cWell, that\u2019s how he sensitized them, they didn\u2019t listen to him,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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