Member of Parliament Stipo Mlinaric of the Homeland Movement on Tuesday called on Veterans Minister Tomo Medved to dismiss the head of the Homeland War Memorial Centre in Vukovar, Krunoslav Seremet, and step down.
Commenting on the “rampage of HDZ members in Vukovar”, namely a recent incident in which Seremet and the state secretary at the Veterans’ Ministry Stjepan Sucic were involved, Mlinaric said that Sucic’s dismissal was not the end of that case and that Seremet’s fate had still not been decided.
That decision needs to be made by the memorial centre’s management board and both Sucic and Medved sit on it so I call on Medved to dismiss Seremet and perhaps it would be best if he stepped down too, said Mlinaric.
Dobbing in your neighbours
“Stay away from mobile phones and private homes and start implementing measures that can help to better contain the disease,” MP Arsen Bauk of the Social Democratic Party said in a message to the government, criticising the latest restrictions and the way the government has been managing the Covid crisis.
He said that in an effort to bypass the constitutional right to inviolability of the home the government was now proposing that “people dob in their neighbours.”
This seems to be a last-ditch move by a government in panic which has lost control of the virus spreading, said Bauk.
Croatian Democratic Union whip Branko Bacic rejected the opposition’s claims and recalled that the Constitutional Court had clearly stated in its decision that decisions by the national Covid-19 response team were in line with the Constitution.
All the relevant laws have been passed by the parliament and they are the basis for the existing measures which are in line with Article 16 of the Constitution, as are the amendments to the Law on the Protection of the Population Against Infectious Diseases, he added.
Not one parliament adopts implementing measures, they are delegated to governments, said Bacic.
Former state prosecutor Jelenic has to be “removed” from DORH
MP Dalija Oreskovic said that despite former chief state prosecutor Drazen Jelenic’s being dismissed after his membership of a Masonic lodge was revealed, nine months later he still worked at the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor (DORH).
“He could possibly be assigned to cases that he should by no means be working on, and what’s more, now that the Ethics Commission has given its opinion, we are hearing from the judiciary that Jelenic will be asked to state whether he has ceased to be a member of the lodge, which is what worries me the most. Whether he ceased being a member nine months ago or only now does not change anything. Jelenic must be removed from DORH because he gave an oath to the Freemasons and publicly stated that he was impressed by being a member of a Masonic lodge,” Oreskovic said.
