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Electoral k(o)ronology with youth Škoro and the grand coalition

Miroslav Škoro
Miroslav Škoro / Image by: foto Ratko Mavar

June 3

• Family members are allowed, in agreement with the hospital and doctors, to visit patients in hospitals.

June 4

• In addition to flights from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, Split, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen, lines to Zurich, Zadar, and Pula have been restored since Monday. Next week, Croatia Airlines will also fly to Munich, Sarajevo, London, Dublin, Rome (via Split), Vienna, and finally, Brussels.

June 6

• I was just 'kicked out' of a large self-service store in a shopping center this Saturday due to disinfection, only for the all-powerful Headquarters to abolish that two-shift working time the very next day, which only older customers remember, while sellers from the two-shift era have long been retired.
Hrvatski Telekom tested technology in Samobor that enabled rapid coverage with 5G services over larger areas. Two days earlier, the City of Hvar suspended the introduction of 5G technology until it is proven that this technology has no negative impact on people and the environment.

June 8

Football is back! The Headquarters first had to ensure that everything was indeed going in the right direction. No one got infected from hugging after goals were scored. Everyone remained healthy even after the footballers' revenge in a hooligan style in the parking lot after the match in which an opposing footballer was 'beaten up, although the referee was to blame for the guests' defeat. The virus did not appear even in the duel where one footballer lay with a broken jaw. As if this was the final proof for the Headquarters that football had returned to normal, so spectators could be allowed into the stadiums!
HDZ presented its electoral program. Initial analyses indicate that, compared to the SDP program, it is equally unachievable. Interestingly, both aim for the same electorate. Thus, HDZ promises to raise the minimum wage from the current 3,250 kuna to 4,250 kuna by the end of the mandate, while SDP will immediately raise it to 4,000 kuna. To paraphrase Krleža, it is easiest to hit others with someone else's – money. It would be good for Plenković and Bernardić to talk a little with entrepreneurs from the textile and footwear industries. And when they read the program similarities and differences a little better, they might actually sit down at the table and start negotiations on a grand coalition.
Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. This applies to the Deputy Director of the Zagreb Clinical Hospital Center 'Sisters of Mercy' Dijana Zadravec. First, last week, the Management Board did not accept the proposal of Director Mario Zovak to dismiss the deputy who was reported due to an alleged incident with an employee. Thus, there were no obstacles to her candidacy for the position of director instead of Zovak. However, the Management Board this Monday did not decide on any of the three candidates (the third was academician Mirna Šitum). Zovak's consolation prize is that he remains acting director until the new competition, and he will surely enjoy continuing cooperation with his deputy.

Transfer window

• The political news of the week is certainly the entry of IDS into the Restart coalition after SDP accepted IDS's conditions – that Istria remains an independent county regardless of possible changes in territorial organization and that decentralization continues.
• Former SDP MP Bojan Glavašević will be in the sixth electoral district in the last, 14th place of the Left-Green coalition led by the platform Možemo! and will fight for entry into the Parliament with preferential votes. In the same way, the frontman of Hladno Pivo, Mile Kekin, joined this group, at the end of the list in the seventh electoral district.
• Minister of Education Blaženka Divjak will be an independent candidate in the 14th place on the HNS list in the third electoral district.
• Mayor of Ilok Marina Budimir will be an independent candidate on the Most list.
• Long-time mayor of the municipality of Primošten Stipe Petrina will lead the 'Enough Plunder' list in the ninth electoral district, and this list led by the Living Wall has also been joined by the most famous Croatian whistleblower Vesna Balenović.
• After negotiations between HSP and the Homeland Movement failed, Karlo Starčević (HSP), Bruna Esih (NHR), and Frano Ćirko (GO) will go to the elections together.
• The political secretary of the Homeland Movement and president of the Supervisory Board of Pevex Mario Radić resigned from membership in the Supervisory Board to prevent new manipulations about Pevex financing the campaign, which the company has already denied.
• And finally, although it is not a current transfer, Jutarnji reported that the current head of the right Miroslav Škoro was once, in 1985, the president of the Culture Commission of the Municipal Committee of the Socialist Youth Alliance of Osijek. So what? Nothing, unless Škoro tries to hide this biographical detail.

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