ZAGREB, 21 January 2021 - Sisak-Moslavina County Prefect Ivo Žinić has resigned as head of the county branch of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, the HDZ announced on Thursday.
The HDZ's Sisak-Moslavina County Committee will be led until party elections by Ivan Celjak, the chairman of the HDZ organisation in Sisak and a member of the national parliament.
On the initiative of the HDZ leader, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, the party's leadership met on Wednesday afternoon to discuss ambiguities surrounding the properties owned by Žinić. After he was informed of the meeting's conclusions, Žinić tendered his resignation this morning and would not run for County Prefect in local elections in May.
The HDZ's Požega-Slavonia County Committee decided on Wednesday to dissolve the party's Požega Town Committee after Darko Puljašić resigned as head of the Town Committee and as deputy head of the party's County Committee. An 11-member commission of the HDZ's Požega Town Committee was appointed to choose a new commissioner among themselves.
