Croatian Minister Sacked Over Failure to Rebuild Quake-hit Zone
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- 26 Jan 2023
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Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has replaced the Minister of Construction, Ivan Paladina, following dissatisfaction with the slow pace of reconstruction in the earthquake-hit Banija, a region less than 50 km from Zagreb. He will be replaced by Branko Bacic.
The Minister of Regional Development and EU Funds, Natasa Tramisak, will also be replaced, by the State Secretary in the same ministry, Sime Erlic.
Plenkovic added that he had proposed Bacic for the new Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction as “He is one of my closest collaborators and a man with great experience”.
“As for Minister Tramisak, she was not the happiest to leave the government, but I understand that,” Plenkovic said.
The 2020 quake centred on Petrinja had a magnitude of 6,4 and destroyed much of the town.
By January 3, 2023, 9.735 requests for renovation and 8.635 requests for non-structural renovation had been received in the quake-hit Banija area.
But there are only six newly built houses, while 84 houses (nine of them donated) and 15 buildings are under construction.
Paladina recently proposed a new centralized reconstruction system after the earthquake, which would replace three bodies with three leaders. But the Prime Minister, who recently declared that reconstruction is incredibly slow, even though he has power to speed it up, seemed unimpressed. Read More…
