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Balkan Insight (18 March 2024)

Vuk Tesija

Croatia’s Constitutional Court has said President Zoran Milanovic may not participate in any party political activities while performing his duties, which excludes him from being a candidate on any list for the elections or being nominated as a candidate for the post of Prime Minister.

Last Friday, Milanovic announced that he would run in the April 17 elections as the list holder of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the first constituency. He and SDP president Pedja Grbin announced this at a press conference.

But Court President Miroslav Separovic clarified that Milanovic’s candidacy while holding the office of president on any list for the election, highlighting him as a candidate for Prime Minister or other position, is incompatible with his constitutional position.

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