“The Constitutional Court determines that by his statements and behavior the President of the Republic, without having previously, in accordance with the Warning of March 18, 2024, resigned from the position of President of the Republic, has put himself in a position where he cannot to be neither the mandate holder for the composition of the future government nor the prime minister,” the verdict states, reports the Associated Press.
AP continues that “the account of the two Croatian politicians dominated the elections, which are also considered a test for the elections for the European Parliament in June”.
“Milanovi is critical of the EU’s policy on the war in Ukraine. If he were to form a government, it could potentially open up space for a stronger pro-Russian influence in the country, as in Hungary and Slovakia,” AP adds. .
“The coalition led by Milanović’s opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) was second with 42 seats won. The results show that it is unlikely that Milanović will be at the head of the government, but according to the court decision from Friday, it is not could not even if he managed to find sufficient support from smaller parties,” writes Reuters.
AFP has announced that the judges areć previously called on the Milanese and SDP to stop acting contrary to the Constitution, and “the president to resign if he wants to throw himself into the electoral arena”.
The Slovenian agency STA reports the statement of the president of the Constitutional Court, Miroslav Šeparovi, that Milanović “he was warned in time and that he should have resigned immediately” and that “he himself closed the door to being a mandate holder”.
The Serbian news agency Beta announced that “the opposition parties strongly criticized the decision of the Constitutional Court of Croatia that President Zoran Milanovic cannot be the mandate holder for the formation of a new government, with the assessment that the court sided with the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).” “.
Beta relayed the reaction of Vedran Đulabić, a professor at the Faculty of Law, who wrote on Xu that the Constitutional Court “today has again appropriated powers that do not belong to it”, as well as the statement of a constitutional expert and head of the Department of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law in Rijeka Sanje Barić. “It doesn’t matter what Sanja Bari says or anyone else. The Constitutional Court said it. And that’s it. It’s the constitutional-legal order, it’s the rule of law, and we just have to stick to it,” she said. Barić.