Grmoja: TE Peruća would burden every entrepreneur

Member of Parliament Nikola Grmoja from Most called out Deputy Prime Minister Martina Dalić on Tuesday, who attacked Most MP Miro Bulj during Friday’s ‘current affairs’ session regarding the Peruća thermal power plant (TE), asserting that Bulj clearly hit the target, and asked her how much tax debt she wrote off for Agrokor while she was Minister of Finance.

– Last Friday, we witnessed an unprecedented incident in the Croatian Parliament where Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Martina Dalić uncontrollably attacked our colleague Miro Bulj. It is clear that colleague Bulj hit the target well because behind that harmful project stands the Deputy Prime Minister, said Grmoja.

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He stated that this aggressive act was not accidental – Dalić, mentioning her familial ties to the Cetina region, attacked a multitude of scientists and 17,000 people who publicly opposed the construction of TE Peruća, but did not mention that TE would burden every entrepreneur as it would sell electricity to the Croatian Energy Market Operator (HROTE) at a subsidized price of 1.26 billion kuna annually, while HROTE would sell that electricity on the market for 0.9 billion kuna.

– The difference of 360 million kuna is collected from the renewable energy fee from consumers, so due to this project, electricity prices should rise. Over 25 years, that amounts to 9.5 billion kuna that would be taken from citizens and entrepreneurs so that the husband of Minister Marija Pejčinović Burić, and perhaps also Martina Dalić and circles connected to her, could earn a lot of money, claimed Grmoja.

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Dalić supports an environmentally unfavorable project that, according to Grmoja, will heat the Cetina and Peruća by three degrees Celsius annually, and in summer by over 30 degrees. Additionally, 280 liters of industrial wastewater will be discharged into the Cetina through it.

The minister, he added, revealed herself during the incident in Parliament as she, as Minister of Economy, should be working on abolishing non-tax levies, which cannot be reduced due to the incentives that will fall on the shoulders of entrepreneurs.

– I have a question for Minister Dalić that could provoke another hysterical outburst: How much tax debt did you write off for Agrokor while you were Minister of Finance, asked Grmoja.