The president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Jadranka Kosor, said on Thursday that the Zoran Milanovic government had given up on the principle of depoliticising the managing and supervisory boards of public companies, stressing that those posts were filled by people from the ruling coalition, regardless of their qualifications and the baggage they carried.
"Those appointments are made solely according to political suitability, regardless of the qualifications of those people and the baggage they carry," Kosor told the press, commenting on the fact that the government first announced and then changed its mind concerning the appointment of Srecko Ferencak of the Croatian People's Party (HNS) as a member of the Supervisory Board of the national oil pipeline operator JANAF.
Stressing that the 'innocent until proven guilty' principle stands in the case of Ferencak, Kosor added that this principle did not prevent Milanovic or Zeljko Jovanovic from calling the entire HDZ party a criminal organisation.
