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At last, he must listen to those who employ him

From Večernji List · () Croatian

Translated from Croatian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Andrej Plenković visited Gospić three days before a protest over hazardous waste that could draw support from political groups, veterans and unions.
  • The article frames the visit as an attempt to limit political damage to Plenković, the HDZ and the government.
  • It criticizes the prime minister’s claim that his government is solving the problem and says the protest may force him to hear angry and frightened residents.

For 18 months, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković ignored invitations from the civic initiative “Gospić Is Our Home,” whose representatives wanted to discuss hazardous waste buried in the Lika region. He finally traveled to Gospić three days before a protest that could attract a mass turnout.

The protest has support from both the left and the right, as well as from war veterans and trade unions. That, the article argues, has made the Gospić waste issue impossible to ignore. Plenković’s visit is presented as an attempt to repair the political damage the issue is causing him, the HDZ and the government.

Yet the prime minister also displayed what the article calls his familiar arrogance in Gospić, saying that his government is “solving” the problem and that a protest will not solve it. The protest may not resolve the waste issue, the article says, but it could at least force Plenković to listen to angry and frightened citizens, whom it describes as his employers.

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· Andrej PlenkovićThe article quotes Plenković describing his government’s handling of the waste problem.
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Originally published by Večernji List in Croatian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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