Croatia’s incumbent Social Democratic President Zoran Milanović wants to stand as his party’s top candidate in the early parliamentary elections. But this is prohibited by the Constitutional Court. Unless he resigns with immediate effect. But that is not the case for the 57-year-old. He speaks of a ‘coup’.
Milanović described the Constitutional Court in a response on Monday as a “gangster gang”. He also seemed convinced of victory: “Eventually I will become head of government, but I’m not going to tell this gang how.” He announced that there would be a ‘third republic’ after the elections and called on citizens to ‘vote for any party except the HDZ’.
In the media, these reactions were interpreted as an announcement that Milanović would officially stay out of the election campaign and would only be presented as a candidate for the office of Prime Minister after the elections. In this way, Tihomir Orešković briefly became head of government in 2016, without standing for election.
The prime minister accuses the president of ‘abuse of institutions’.
For Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, the result is clear. “Everything we said, that not only the constitutional framework of the presidency was exceeded, but the constitution itself was directly violated, was repeated,” he said. Plenković described the actions of the president and the SDP in recent days as an “attempt at a mini-coup” and an “abuse of the institutions.” “This is chaos, headlessness, but if you talk about the content, it is not there,” the HDZ politician criticized, according to the media.
Source: Krone
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