President Zoran Milanović Says Will Hang Tough On His Nomination of Zlata Đurđević as Supreme Court Head

“I am taking this opportunity to ask members of parliament to think carefully about whether they want to turn down such a competent and good candidate for the Supreme Court president, because we have never had a better candidate,” Milanović told reporters during a visit to Ogulin.

Đurđević morally, intellectually up to the task, competent

“They should disregard all the lies, fabrications, Lex Perković… That was all a lie, she is completely clean, morally and intellectually up to the task, as well as competent. If they choose to vote against her, I will not hang tough on this nomination.”

Milanović repeated that Đurđević was his candidate, that under the Constitution he proposed the candidate for Supreme Court president and that no parliamentary committee or the Supreme Court Council would be able to change his mind.

“I am the President, I propose the candidate and explain my choice and the parliament has the right to turn them down,” he said.

“I believe that the parliamentary majority will opt for the candidate whom I consider excellent. I will ask each MP individually to state the reasons they are against her,” Milanović said, dismissing speculation that the judicial authorities were in a state of crisis.

Asked if he would meet with Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Milanović said that he was always ready for talks with the prime minister.

“I invited him to lay wreaths with me in Okučani, he chickened out,” he said.

As for Sunday’s incident in Borovo Selo, where a group of young men marched through the town chanting anti-Serb messages, Milanović repeated that police were under the influence of politics, that is, Minister of the Interior Davor Božinović and PM Plenković, and that he considered them responsible for the incident.

Asked about Serb minority MP Milorad Pupovac’s comment that Milanović, too, was responsible for incidents, Milanović said ironically “Yes, I’m to blame for the Kennedy assassination as well. He was killed in 1963, I was born in 1966 but I had my hand in it.”

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