Sessa: Milanović's decision on the Supreme Court resembles a dictatorship

After President Zoran Milanović announced that he would not propose any of the candidates for the position of President of the Supreme Court, and only a professor from the Zagreb Faculty of Law, Aleksandra Maganić, responded to the tender, the former head of the Supreme Court and now the president of the International Association of Judges Đuro Sessa reacted strongly to the president's decision.

He is disputing the president's decision not to seek the opinions of the parliamentary Committee on the Judiciary and the Supreme Court. Sessa is convinced that this is the president's legal obligation, because otherwise the president's decision is an act of rule and dictatorship, and not an act of rational judgment after obtaining the prescribed opinions.

After speaking to some media outlets, Đuro Sessa refused to comment further.

“I will see what the parliamentary services say. This is the first time I have been in such a position. I know that the candidate must be proposed by the President of the Republic. But what if the President of the Republic does not propose the person who responded to the public tender? So in that sense I don't know what the procedure is. I have to talk to the other members of the Committee about whether it makes sense, if the President does not intend to propose this candidate, for us to hold a hearing,” said the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the Judiciary, Nikola Grmoja.

He stressed that the only authorized proposer is the President of the Republic and that he does not see the point of hearing and giving an opinion on a candidate who was not proposed by the President of the Republic.

Source: HRT