”I don’t need it because I’ve already got one, but the citizens [of Zagreb] need it.”
If Mayor Bandić has a ”thing” for anything, it’s construction. Be it roadworks or fountains, the Zagreb mayor simply doesn’t seem to ever be able to quite get enough of building things, often in very awkward and busy times of the year.
His passion for fountains in particular has dominated and continues to dominate the world of Croatian satire, and his desire for yet more types of construction appears to be an undying one. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 13th of September, 2018, Bandić has expressed his selfless need to build yet another garage in a central location, but that it’s for others, not for him, as he’s already got one.
“It’s just like people asking if they should drink water each day” stated the ever-eccentric Zagreb mayor.
When asked whether or not new underground garages were really necessary in the centre of Zagreb, Bandić claimed the subject simply shouldn’t be up for debate, according to Večernji list, sarcastically adding that it’s “thanks to those who adopted the conclusion prohibiting the construction of public garages in Donji and Gornji grad back in 2010” that there currently isn’t a garage already there.
“If there’s an understanding of the majority in the Assembly, and I hope that will be the case, then we’ll finally get it off the agenda,” Bandić said, concluding own classic way that he himself doesn’t need a garage ”because he already has one”, but that the citizens of Zagreb do need it.
