He is the head of the currently strongest political party, the Croatian Democratic Union, the Deputy Prime Minister, formally the second man in power, but in fact the first, the leader of a group of lunatics, pompously called the Patriotic Coalition, who have been behaving like the leaders of a second-division football club for four months now, not the state. . His political program is based on hollow but current phrases about patriotism, conservatism, family, church... He did everything to euthanize the coalition partner Most, thanks to whom he won power, after a government that was barely scraped together, to push into the background the prime minister whom, by of electoral legitimacy, he dragged himself from Canada, mostly, enthroned himself as the emperor of intrigues, threats, blackmail, and then...
Then the powerful man Tomislav Karamarko, as in some cheap drama, was exposed as a "traitor to the homeland" and national interests, a man on the very edge of the political precipice, whose resignation is now being demanded by the opposition, and would not be hated by many members of his party either. It is a scandal that once again exposes the abuse of the mythological state for private purposes, and the extremely contemptuous attitude towards legality and citizens. Karamark's wife, it turned out, received a lucrative fee, totaling 60.000 euros, from an influential lobbyist of the Hungarian oil company, which, under very suspicious circumstances, became the owner of the Croatian oil industry for obscure consulting work. It was precisely because of the sale of INA that former Prime Minister Sanader was tried for accepting a huge bribe and is in prisons and courts, and Croatia is conducting an arbitration dispute with Hungary because of this sale, as Karamarko would say, of the "strategic interests of the state". Therefore, Mrs. Karamarko, through her promotional agency Drimia, received money from a family friend and adviser of the company which, thanks to a corrupt contract, owns both Croatian refineries and exploits Croatian mineral resources.
And while Ana Karamarko's company performs an unknown but lucrative job for the Hungarian MOL, her husband meets with the owners of MOL, and then within the Government advocates for the termination of the arbitration dispute, claiming that "we will lose it anyway".
Is Karamarko working against the national interests of Croatia, with the help of his wife? A woman who worked for a long time in the media corporation Europapress holding, acquired knowledge of PR affairs there, which she would later transfer to her own company and record incredible business results, despite the deep crisis. Did that lady mediate between her employer at the time, the owner of the strongest media company in Croatia, and Mr. Karamarko, then in important political positions, especially the one at the head of the secret services? More precisely, are there merits in the fact that the former owner of Europapress Holding, despite serious accusations and criminal charges, still avoided the fate of his mentor at the time, the imprisoned Prime Minister Sanader?
Basically, this affair showed the essence of Croatian political lies, and showed the arrogant first man of the so-called Patriotic Coalition to be ready to cash in on his beloved homeland for a handful of "Juda's money", which is a phrase that he himself, copying the father of ideas Franjo Tuđman, shoves in his nose opponents - "Yugoslavs" and "communists". He based his political rise exclusively on ideological divisions and inciting inter-ethnic hatred, and with a developed police mind, he believed that he could have the upper hand in such a poor government, only if he constantly produced new enemies and traitors to the phantom national sovereignty. Now he has only been exposed as a petty smuggler of state interests, on the appanage of a Hungarian oil company that is in dispute with Croatia. As a typical underground political player, Karamarko barely got a passing grade on his way to power, always menacingly brazen in promoting stubborn right-wing platitudes, and now whiningly calls his own affair "a threat to his family".
But the "consultant" affair, as it was called, showed again that the right-wing HDZ has not moved away from its fundamental characteristics, that is, vain "patriotism" based on corruption, and that this party only offers Croatia retardation, the demolition of achieved democratic standards, so the Government formed with Most is weak, disoriented, and harmful in every way. Nevertheless, despite the corruption scandal, Karamarko does not intend to resign himself, well assessing that such a moral lapse is nothing special here, but his case is dealt with by some kind of non-binding Commission for Conflict of Interest, while all those he bribed, from the church, to war veterans, to various conservative groups, euphemistically call that scandal "recklessness".
Until the affair with his wife, Karamarko was focused exclusively on the establishment of a pro-fascist state and the undermining of democracy, along with a convulsive struggle with the coalition partner to bring the repressive apparatus and secret services under his control. Now it is clear why. However, hardly any of that bothered the opposition SDP, but taking money from the "enemy" already qualifies him as a "national traitor". Does that also mean his political end? Not likely. Not in a country that is systematically robbed by the most ardent patriots.
(Mladina; Peščanik.net)
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