Prime Minister of the Government and HDZ, Andrej Plenković on Monday, he said that the indictment against the former director of the Sports Facilities Management institution Kosta Kostanjevic shows that we can do it! is not an innocent party butć they have people who are prone to corruption affairs.
“There is no such thing as ‘truth’. There is only a political battle and the prevailing aggressive narrative from their side. They don’t even hide what their political goals are,” Plenkovi said. journalists after the session of the Presidency and the HDZ National Board were asked about the indictment against Kostanjevic in the Hippodrome affair
In that affair, for which an indictment was filed on Monday, Uskok suspects that former director Kosta Kostanjević from the Sports Facility Management (USO) institution, illegally paid 1.8 million euros to the security company of his co-defendants and “earned” about 450 thousand euros in the process.
The president of the HDZ said that these sums are much larger when compared to the amount that the former chief state inspector Andrija Mikuli is accused of receiving. (120,000 euros).
He reiterated that anyone who is trusted for the duties for which he was appointed is trusted to work legally. Therefore, the one who forgets about responsibility, legality and ethics and behaves contrary to the law – no one will help him or save him, but the competent bodies for the suppression of corruption and criminal prosecution will work in accordance with the law.
The opposition deals with ideological identity divisions
Nappiesć invited Možemo! to condemn yesterday’s messages from the protest called “United against Fascism” which was held in Zagreb, Pula, Zadar and Rijeka. He warned that many of the messages had nothing to do with the fundamental principles of the Croatian constitutional order. “I don’t really see the Croatian people rushing back to some kind of Balkan federation, not to mention Yugoslavia,” he said.
He believes that it would be good if the political parties of the left – although some of them walked in these parades – distance themselves from such messages and condemn them.
Asked if there were left-wing radical extremists among the protesters, he said that we live in a democracy where we have people with different viewpoints and ideological positions, but it is important that the Croatian people and voters see well who is who.
He reminded that after the concerts of Marko Perkovic Thompson in Zagreb and Sinj, the left-wing political opposition launched a “hysterical” attack that it was about historical revisionism and Ustashaization, and there was also a message in English that tourists are not safe in Croatia
“These are directly harmful messages,” he pointed out. He also said that all those who disobey the law – be they from the extreme right or left spectrum – will be held accountable.
Nappiesć also asserted that the opposition does not offer a solution for key economic, social or development issues of the country, but deals with ideological and identity divisions. “It may last for a while, but all those balloons deflate eventually,” he said.
Asked for a comment on today’s session of the Parliamentary Committee for the Judiciary, where all three candidates for the president of the Supreme Court were heard, Plenković said that the conclusion was to declassify the USKOK letter about the candidate Mirta Matić so that the representatives get to know him. He stated that he does not know what is written there – when the impressions from today’s hearing settle down, consult and make further decisions.
He also reported that the European Commission confirmed today that Croatia has fulfilled all the criteria and indicators for the seventh installment from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NPOO) and that 1.1 billion euros will be deposited into the account of the Ministry of Finance by the end of this year.
This means, he emphasized, that during the next year, when the NPOO lasts, we will fully absorb all 10 billion euros that are available to us for the development and implementation of various projects in numerous sectors, and this especially refers to the renovation, in which about 4.2 billion euros have been invested so far.