ZAGREB, August 30, 2019 – Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Thursday he met with Independent Democratic Serb Party president Milorad Pupovac, that he understood his concern about recent attacks on Serbs, that he expected the perpetrators to be punished, and that there was no climate of intolerance towards ethnic minorities in Croatia.
“We met and we talked,” Plenković told reporters in Varazdin, adding that Pupovac “expressed his concern about these incidents, and I understand him as he is a representative of the Serb minority.”
Plenković reiterated that it was his choice that ethnic minorities should be part of the parliamentary majority and that he stood by it.
He also commended on the State Prosecutor’s Office’s request that former minister and incumbent MP Lovro Kuščević be stripped of immunity from prosecution, saying the police and the State Prosecutor’s Office were in charge of that and that the request was usual procedure.
A routine response from the parliamentary committee is ahead of us and then we’ll see what happens, he said.
Plenković said he had not spoken with Kuščević, a member of his HDZ party, but “I will if it’s necessary.” He added that he saw no problem in Kuščević’s comment on the request that he be stripped of immunity and that it was too early to draw any conclusions.
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