By: Ž.K. (Nova24tv)
Today, hearings are taking place at the CPC regarding accusations made against the Prime Minister by former Minister of the Interior Tatjana Bobnar and former Director-General of the Police Boštjan Lindav. The Prime Minister has described the proceedings against him as a “farce.” As he stated to the media, he was merely advocating for the “depoliticization” of the police. However, it appears that the police see things differently, as they have filed a criminal complaint against the Prime Minister.
In November last year, the CPC Senate initiated an investigation against the Prime Minister due to suspicions of integrity violations. The investigation was launched following public disclosures (Bobnar, Lindav) of severe political pressures on the work of the police and other relevant authorities.
The Prime Minister is represented before the CPC by lawyer Stojan Zdolšek, who requested the removal of CPC President Simon Savski and later challenged the denial of his request in court. Subsequently, Tina Divjak became the Deputy President of the CPC, which made the reason for the commission being unable to continue the investigation process irrelevant, reports STA. Another step in the process was that the CPC Senate allowed Golob access to the case file.
Similar to the first press conference related to this matter, the Prime Minister attempted to redirect public attention elsewhere, focusing it on the opposition.
He advocated for the usurpation of the police
“I would like to say once again that I completely deny all accusations made by Tatjana Bobnar. Today’s procedure is truly a farce. I am here before the CPC solely because I advocated for the depoliticization of the police, which we also announced in our pre-election programme,” said the Prime Minister. Depoliticization, however, is a libertarian term that implies the usurpation of public institutions by the political left, as we saw in the case of RTV. As Golob has admitted in the past, he and Bobnar had agreed to “cleanse” the police of those who think differently, or in the left-wing jargon, to cleanse the police of ‘Janšists’.
He mentioned the protest in Celje, which he labeled as an “attack on the judiciary,” even though it was a protest exercising the constitutionally guaranteed right to public assembly and freedom of expression, fundamentally against “misjudgment.” He did not mention the police violence against the protesters.
Golob has also been criminally reported by the police in the same case.
Former Interior Minister Tatjana Bobnar and former Police Director-General Boštjan Lindav have already arrived for their interviews before the CPC. They did not make any statements to the media before the meeting.
SDS MP demands disclosure of conversation content
SDS MP Andrej Hoivik expressed his expectation on Tuesday that the commission would publicly announce what would be discussed and what the Prime Minister would say at this “interrogation, not a conversation.”
