Amy Mek
Croatia’s left-wing President, Zoran Milanović, has again criticized the country’s coronavirus measures and media’s scaremongering. The leader stressed that citizens should not be stripped of their fundamental freedoms and blasted their willful obedience.
The president, who served as the country’s Prime Minister from 2011 to 2016, stated that enough Croatians had been vaccinated, despite only 41 percent of the population receiving the injection.
After the introduction of vaccines, I said it and I will say it again… when there are more vaccines than people who want to take them, when there are more doses than people queuing up for them, figuratively speaking… then these restrictions make no sense
During a visit to the University of Zagreb for World Teachers Day, Milanovic chastised people for wearing face masks,
I entered today into a room today and they were all wearing masks. Why are they wearing masks?….What’s the point of wearing a mask then? Why are people, whose average age is 50, wearing a mask? The docility of people… it’s hard to believe sometimes. And the obedience…even at times when one maybe shouldn’t be fully obedient.
The president said that last year’s coronavirus measures were “unconstitutional.” Milanović criticized politicians who stipped citizens of their fundamental rights:
What happened last year was unconstitutional. All those measures which were enacted without a two-thirds supermajority in Parliament. Those are the measures that have infringed on human freedoms, not rights; those were fundamental freedoms, at the level of the right to photosynthesis, really. Those were enacted by Parliament, through a simple majority, and that must never happen again.
Last month, The President accused the media of scaremongering. “People are getting thousands of more serious diseases while we’ve been talking about corona for a year and a half,” he said.
The president slammed foreign media’s reporting on the coronavirus. Milanović singled out left-wing U.S. news outlet CNN, stating: “I wonder every day if I am normal or if they have gone crazy. They spread panic. They do it from the beginning.”
Milanović stated that the media hysteria surrounding the coronavirus is starting to get on people’s nerves. He stressed the importance of his country getting back to normal.
Vlad Tepes
shove your mask up your piehole
Only after, first rinsing it thoroughly in with hazel.
I also wonder, why people use that dirty sanitary towel on their face all day?
Disgusting!
Clearly 99% of the people are completely brainwashed, they don’t have brains at all!
You think wearing a mask helps prevent speared of WuFlu in any way? Learn to read.
This President of Croatia, sounds like a conservative! How can he be left-wing, as this article states?
He’s ole-timey Left Wing, Dear Renate, which means he is not out of his mind!
For the first time in my life , I’m proud of my Croatian heritage. I really don’t know much about them other than my father was one. He died when I was a kid. I guess they are too bad. This guys seems ok .
Too bad it took you this long to be proud.
You are a tuka.
If you don’t know what that is, talk to a person from Lika. That will learn you.
For those that lived and dealt with the domineering of Martial Law, this comment by Dan should not offend you. Instead take it as a badge of strength and hope that even faux Croats can come around.
I was called a Yugoslav in 1977 by a teacher (I was in elementary school) and I told her I was Croatian and she tried to tell me it did not exist. Talk about indoctrination on both sides of the debate – me and her. I visited the country in 1976, 1983 and in 2009. I can tell you that each and every time, people identified as Croatian and not Yugoslavs (they were commies because that is the only way to get by if you had a commie card).
A few years before that there were atrocious and brutal beatings of student protests in major Universities in the present day Croatia by Martial Law Communists.
Those people may be either your parents or relations Dan (They were not mine – I be mountain people (hard to fool types; just like Appalachian peoples).
Better catch up Dan or you will be left behind to swim in the slow lane with all the other identity politic types to whom you may be alienated from.
I have a hard edge for some of these newly annointed “super Croats” who were yesterdays socialists/commies/turncoats and now are shouting their patriotism from the rafters.
Just like a politician (opportunists) who calls out social justice for you and me, but who could just be another self loathing hypocrite and spiteful hater of the people he/she serves. Many of those that have returned having lived/educated in the west are there for the opportunity for themselves (and the locals know this).
However, I feel bad for Americans and Croats that stayed after WW2 (if that is who you identify as hyphenated) because you were fed a reading list of crap revisionist history.
There are many English, French, German, American, Canadian, Russian, Croatian, Italian, Spanish, Israeli, and Australian history experts who wrote extensively using information of first person accounts in these times that can attests to these incongruities. However to be a student of this, you must make the effort.
By revealing yourself Dan, you are making an effort. Try harder Dan.
So regrettably, you are the target of my verbal eviscerations. Not that I am hard core to the bone, I just tire of the banality that (like this politician) speaks to the dum dums that follow this constant sheep like mentality only to be “nice”.
For the first time in my life , I’m proud of my Croatian heritage. I really don’t know much about them other than my father was one. He died when I was a kid. I guess they are too bad. This guys seems ok . I’m still a proud Texan though.