Zlata Djurdjevic, a candidate for Supreme Court President, on Friday issued an open letter in which she commented on her candidacy, saying that she had been discredited for months.
“With my decision to agree to be publicly proposed by the President of the Republic for the position of Supreme Court President, after initial approval by political bodies who were surprised by my selection, I was subjected to discreditation for months,” Djurdjevic wrote in a six-page letter.
She underscored that the campaign of public criticism and slander was conducted “from the position of political power and by certain members of the judiciary.”
“Regardless of my claims about the untruthfulness of the criticisms and slander, labels, and fabrications just changed and were further built upon,” she said.
Government’s theories were deliberately aimed at various political groups
“The government’s theories were not only deceiving the public but were deliberately and manipulatively aimed at various political groups,” she claimed.
The accusations of my participation in an unlawful procedure were intended for the public and coalition partners, she added.
The conclusion that she had to apply to the first public call because she subsequently agreed to be a candidate is logically and temporally senseless. The obligation to apply to the first call applied to Supreme Court judges who “firmly stand by the opinion that the president of that court can only be a judge from that court, which was shown by their unsubstantiated, secret and non-transparent rejection of all candidates by consensus.”
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She recalled that at the time of the first call the President of the Republic did not have his candidate but only said that he would not appoint Judge Sessa, and he was the only one that applied. “So the question isn’t why I did not I apply, but why they did not apply,” she noted.
She was then defamed for her opinion in the procedure to extradite Perkovic, which was abused by those in power and the opposition, and by Judge Turudic.
Another judge had a similar opinion, Davor Derencinovic, and he was recommended by the government to be a judge in the European Court of Human Rights, without anyone questioning that at the time.
Irresponsibility in judiciary is being hidden from citizens
Djurdjevic believes that denying that a constitutional crisis will occur if a Supreme Court President is not appointed, shows political domination over the judiciary and is hiding democratic irresponsibility towards citizens for the situation in the judiciary and that the court president has to have democratic legitimacy, which will not be the case if Sessa’s deputy, Marin Mrcela, takes his place.
That will then mean that judges in that court will select their president on their own.
She added that regardless of the epilogue of this procedure, it is without a doubt that Croatian political discourse and the public have entered into judicial issues.
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