Parl. Speaker Says it’s not MPs’ Job to Call for Somebody’s Arrest

“Should someone commit a criminal act and that is proven, they will be arrested,” Jandroković told Urša Raukar Gamulin of the Green-Left Bloc after she said she hoped State Attorney General Zlata Hrvoj Šipek would withstand pressure and make arrests.

She was commenting on Defence Minister Mario Banožić, who she said had defrauded the state of millions of kuna and committed several offences, from abuse of office to influence-peddling.

“Government ministers are falling one after another under the charges of influence- peddling and abuse of office, while the prime minister is making threats and giving instructions to the state attorney general to not prosecute them,” she said, stressing that in a civilised EU country this would make the prime minister and the entire government fall.

“The legislature is not the one to decide who will be arrested, you mentioned here people by name and spoke about arrests, that is not the way to do things. You do not have the right to call on state institutions to arrest people, that is not your job,” Jandroković said.

Dalija Orešković (Centre/GLAS), too, commented on the Office of the State Attorney General, stressing that in a healthy state, the chief state prosecutor does not listen to political instructions over the phone.

“We do not have a state because we do not have independent institutions,” she said.

Milorad Pupovac of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) warned of a speech by an MP who after habitually spreading intolerance towards the Serb Orthodox Church and its members said, “We have reduced the Serbs to a tolerable number.”

“The session chairman issued no warning and did not distance himself from that statement,” Pupovac said, adding that “the 20th-century reductions of the historical minorities – Hungarians, Austrians, Germans, Italians, Jews, Roma and Serbs – to tolerable numbers has made Croatia neither freer nor safer,” the Serb MP said.

Marijan Pavliček (Croatian Sovereignists) criticised Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomašević for refusing to sponsor the Walk for Life event and refusing to have the organisers’ flag displayed on city flagpoles, saying the mayor had privatised the city and marginalised those whose worldviews he did not share.

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