ZAGREB, December 3, 2019 – Prime Minister and HDZ party leader Andrej Plenković said on Monday that he believed President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović was joking when she said that if Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandić, who has been indicted for corruption in several cases, was convicted, she would visit him in prison and take him cakes.
“I believe she was joking,” Plenković told reporters after a session of the HDZ Presidency and National Council when asked to comment on Grabar-Kitarović’s statement to Media Servis.
Earlier in the day, responding to criticism over her singing at Bandić’s birthday party, Grabar-Kitarović said that everyone was innocent until proven guilty and that if Bandić was convicted, she would take him cakes to prison.
Asked how many signatures of support for her presidential bid Grabar-Kitarović would hand in to the State Election Commission on Tuesday, Plenković said that the last signatures arriving from all over the country were being collected and that tomorrow “a large number of signatures of support for the president will be handed in.”
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