The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 nominated Zlata \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107, professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, as his candidate for president of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia. He confirmed this to journalists on Monday in Petrinja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cProfessor \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107 has accepted to be a candidate. She is a complete person, independent, a University professor in Zagreb with a brilliant career\u201d, he said, explaining why he nominated her. Regarding the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament\u2019s announcement whereby he would not table President Milanovi\u0107\u2019s proposal if the candidate does not submit her candidacy through the public call for applications, President Milanovi\u0107 reminded that former Prime Minister Sanader made a decision to remove an Ustasha plaque by directly applying the Constitution and it did not matter to Gordan Jandrokovi\u0107 at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat was then, now it\u2019s different. Nowadays you first adopt a law that is unconstitutional, and I\u2019ll get to that later, and you say you won\u2019t table it (the president’s proposal). The goal here is to prevent a person with integrity from being elected president of the Supreme Court, a person who is not part of the clique, a group of people that will not allow any changes to happen. Ms. Zlata \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107 is first-rate. The Government has nominated her for international positions. If she is good for the International Court of Justice, then she is good for a Croatian court. We currently have a candidate, so let\u2019s see what they\u2019ll think of next. It\u2019s possible that my proposal will be put in a drawer. Legal and political violence of all kinds is possible. They like to call this rule of law. That\u2019s not rule of law. Rule of law doesn\u2019t mean to keep amending laws and adopting unconstitutional ones\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commenting on the petition to rule on the constitutionality of the Law on Courts that has been filed, President Milanovi\u0107 warns that \u201cin this way a possibility has been given to the HDZ\u2019s power elite in the Constitutional Court to make the decision that they want\u201d. At this moment the decision is being coordinated between Vladimir \u0160eks, his best man Miroslav \u0160eparovi\u0107 and Snje\u017eana Bagi\u0107, his closest associate who has been politically appointed along with him to the Constitutional Court, the President of the Republic warned, indicating the absolutistic powers of the president of the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe President of the Constitutional Court receives petitions, lawsuits, he decides when a case will be reviewed. Therefore, he doesn\u2019t answer to any judge, he doesn\u2019t ask their opinion, he assigns it to a trusted person. Then the decision is written by advisers, whose names you don\u2019t even know, those are people of confidence. You\u2019ve seen how decisions are made in the Constitutional Court. The speed at which \u0160eks\u2019s best man and former director of the intelligence service during the HDZ wants, they are assigned to judge-rapporteurs whom he chooses. It is a clear exclusive party affair. And they make the decisions public when it suits them. In this case, the remaining eleven judges will be informed two days, and that will be when it suits the HDZ, \u0160eks and Plenkovi\u0107. Then they will announce the decision by saying \u2013 the law is constitutional. That\u2019s the rule of law\u201d?\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President of the Republic repeated that he will not give up on his proposal for president of the Supreme Court. \u201cMy candidate is professor Zlata \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107 and that\u2019s that. I don\u2019t know what could happen, what could tarnish her career or be disclosed for me to change my mind. I won\u2019t change my mind, she\u2019s my candidate\u201d, he underlined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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