Zoran Milanovic (BETAPHOTO/HINA/Slavko VUKADIN)
The Constitutional Court of Croatia decided on April 19 that Zoran Milanovic, the Croatian president and opposition Social Democratic Party's candidate for prime minister, could not be the country’s prime minister designate or the prime minister.
The Constitutional Court concluded at an extraordinary session that Milanovic had put himself in such a position by his own statements and actions or, more precisely, by participating in the election campaign for parliamentary elections on April 17 and failing to first resign as president.
The president of the Constitutional Court, Miroslav Separovic, told journalists that, unlike the Social Democrats, Milanovic violated an earlier Court warning that he could not participate in the electoral process unless he resigned first.
According to Croatian law, the head of state appoints the prime minister designate who forms a new government.
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