ZAGREB, 21 Dec (Hina) - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Tuesday that President Zoran Milanović was playing the part of opposition leader and that the MOST party's referendum petition against COVID certificates was evil and perfidious, whose only goal was the self-promotion of several actors.
"This is the first time since... 2000 that someone elected to the office of president of the republic works solely for the opposition and not for a harmonious, uniform functioning of all branches of government," Plenković told the press in Bjelovar.
Milanović is playing the part of someone who should be the leader of the opposition and thereby apriori against everything, he said.
It's an unusual situation but we have become used to it, it's not a problem to us, he added.
MOST initiative is evil and perfidious
Commenting on the MOST party's collection of signatures for a referendum against COVID certificates, the prime minister said it had nothing to do with healthcare, calling it an evil initiative and sheer destruction.
He recalled that MOST MP Nikola Grmoja said in parliament that they had made a mistake and turned everyone against them, adding that "they didn't say that the question was irrelevant or the referendum, but that their game was irrelevant."
They are playing with people and the nature of the petition is "self-promotion, disregard for regulations adopted based on the law, and disregard for people's health," Plenković said.
"That's a very perfidious, essentially an evil initiative. That's the whole point. I don't mean the people who signed, but those who made people think that they will change something. They won't change anything."
The petition has no point, other than the self-promotion of several actors, Plenković said. "And they immediately accuse us of being thieves and that we will steal something in advance. This symbiosis of anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, what is that? It's not serious."
He said the pandemic had unmasked everyone in Croatia. "Now we all know who is who. All masks are off."
In the long term, that is important for the Croatian political scene, he said, reiterating that people see the difference between those who are responsible, serious, calm and rational, who want to do good, and those who are only destructive and are doing everything for self-promotion, and then insult and accuse.
"A huge number of people are telling me, 'This is not normal anymore, what's happening has crossed every line.' That's how it usually is in crises, everything gets uncovered."
