The USKOK anti-corruption office is accusing Milošević of abuse of office in the allocation of incentives to businesses alongside five other persons, including Darko Horvat, who was arrested on Saturday and relieved of duty as construction minister.
Speaking on Croatian Radio, Obuljen Koržinek said the matter was under investigation.
“It’s important not to create hysteria, not to convict people before proceedings have been carried out because many people in high positions in Croatia have been accused and labelled, which lasted for years, only to be acquitted.”
She said it was very important to respect judicial institutions and not to convict people before a verdict was delivered.
Opposition’s only agenda is to topple the HDZ without arguments
Asked to comment on some opposition parties’ demand for dissolving parliament and an early election, she said “the opposition’s only agenda is the delusional and unfounded toppling of the (ruling) HDZ.”
“How has it happened that all of a sudden the SDP, We Can! and Bridge agree on everything?” she said, adding that it is their only narrative.
“They should form a party together, act together and pretend they are on different political positions”, she said, telling all three to consider their actions in the election they are demanding.
“They are praying to God that there is no election and that in two years they can try to work some more on their image and rating.”
Obuljen Koržinek called the opposition’s statements on the judiciary as mud-slinging and an unfounded stating of untruths. “A week ago they said the HDZ had its hooks in and controlled the judiciary and now, a week later, all of a sudden the whole judiciary is excellent, independent and should be protected.”
She said such inconsistency and spitting on everything was very bad for democracy in Croatia.
“Don’t hit at institutions because tomorrow you will have to build them,” she told the opposition, adding that the common goal of those in power and the opposition is to affirm politics as an activity in which one works for the common good.
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