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Milan Bandić

Bandić at the Croatia—Russia match in Arena Zagreb, December 2008
In office
May 5, 2000 – January 21, 2002[1][2]
Preceded by Marina Matulović-Dropulić
Succeeded by Vlasta Pavić
Incumbent
Assumed office 
May 15, 2005[3]
Preceded by Vlasta Pavić
Born November 22, 1955 (1955-11-22) (age 54)
Grude, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatia
Political party League of Communists of Croatia (80s), Social Democratic Party of Croatia 1990 – 2009

Independent 2009 – present
Spouse(s) Vesna Bandić (wife)[4]
Children Ana-Marija (daughter)[4]
Residence Stara Peščenica
Alma mater University of Zagreb
Occupation Politician
Religion Roman Catholic
Website www.milanbandic.com

Milan Bandić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈmǐˑlɑn ˈbâːnditɕ], born November 22, 1955) is a Croatian politician. He is currently serving his fourth term as the mayor of Croatia's capital, Zagreb.

Until 2009, he was a prominent member of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). He ran for party president in 2007, but his bid was unsuccessful. Due to his influence, however, he remained one of the main rivals of current party president, Zoran Milanović. On November 5, 2009, he announced his intent to run for president, a breach of the party's bylaws that led his expulsion from the party.[5]

Since Zagreb generates more than 30% of Croatia's GDP (as of 2004), and the city in 2007 had a budget of 7.38 billion kuna, Bandić is deemed an influential Croatian politician.[6][7][8] He has been favored in the public for his achievements and the work he has done for Zagreb,[9] though he has also gained notoriety for a number of actions and statements he has made as Mayor of Zagreb.[10]

Bandić is also sometimes perceived as one of the most active Zagreb mayors, due to his ambitions and the number of projects related to Zagreb he initiated or finished.[11] He is most credited for the renovation of Ljubljanska Avenue (today Zagrebačka Avenue), for working on the Arena Zagreb and the Homeland Bridge, opened during his third term.

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[edit] Personal life

Milan Bandić was born to Jozo and Blagica Bandić (née Tomić) in the small hamlet of Bandića Brig near Grude in Herzegovina (then SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia). He was the middle child in the family, with an older brother, Drago, and a younger sister, Tonka. His family's main source of income was a tobacco plantation. Bandić attended the Antun Branko Šimić High School in Grude. In 1974 he moved to Zagreb to study at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He worked as a mason, painting façades to pay his student loan.[12][13]

Milan was married to Vesna Bandić until their divorce in 1996, though they still live together in their Stara Peščenica apartment and have a daughter named Ana-Marija.[4][12][13] Bandić has stated that the divorce was a result of a seven-year separation.[4] Some journalists have connected this event to his attempt to buy a city-owned social housing apartment.[4] Bandić owns two golden retrievers, named Bil and Rudi, whom he often walks during his work hours.[13][14][15]In 2007, Bil was diagnosed and treated for a malignant tumor

Bandić is an avid distance runner; he describes himself as "addicted to running"[16] and is reported to run 10 kilometers every morning.[17] In March 2008 he completed the 61 km Zagreb-Čazma ultramarathon.[18]

[edit] Health problems

On July 3, 2003, after a session of the Zagreb City Council, Bandić requested medical help, stating that he had begun to feel ill during the session. The media reported that he had suffered a minor stroke, but the official explanation was that exhaustion and overwork had caused a blood vessel in his endocranium to spasm.[19] In interviews, Bandić referred to his condition as a stroke.[13] He was hospitalized for a few weeks and then went to Krapinske Toplice to recover.[19] Journalists regarded his political career as finished, but he rapidly recovered and returned to his duties on September 2.[20] Bandić often claims to work 16 hours a day and attributes his health problems to this.[10][12][13]

[edit] Political career

[edit] Before becoming a mayor

Bandić became a member of the Communist Party and was one of the few Herzegovina Croats to remain there after the first democratic elections in 1990. He showed great organizational ability and populist instincts. These abilities allowed Social Democratic Party of Croatia (Bandić's party) to make dramatic advances in Zagreb blue-collar neighborhoods and attract votes that Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and its leader at that time president Franjo Tuđman had considered their own by default. As such, he proved to be a valuable asset for the reformed Communist party.

This manifested itself at the 1995 parliamentary and City of Zagreb elections, leading to the Zagreb Crisis: an electoral alliance, in which the SDP was a major partner, won a majority on the Zagreb elections and chose Goran Granić as the new mayor, but Franjo Tuđman used a legal loophole to stop the election of Granić. Several subsequent elections were held with SDP winning each time and Tuđman promptly removed every candidate. For a while, Zagreb was a city without a mayor, which led to public unrest and protests in Ban Jelačić Square. With the final 1997 election of the HDZ candidate Marina Matulović-Dropulić for mayor of Zagreb, the crisis diminished. Bandić played a role in the crisis by becoming a city councilman in 1995 and the leader of the Zagreb SDP in 1997.[10]

During the first campaign, his Herzegovina background became an issue as the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) suggested that only a native citizen of Zagreb could become the city's mayor. HSS also launched a hate propaganda against Herzegovinans, obviously in an effort to undermine Bandić's campaign.[21] The party hoped that the majority of Zagreb voters would turn away from Bandić. However, those expectations were not met, and Bandić later used his Herzegovina background as an advantage, broadening his support among ordinary citizens of Zagreb.[22]

[edit] First and second term (2000-2004)

He was elected mayor in 2000[1] and re-elected during the regular city elections in 2001.[23] Bandić's rise in influence among SDP politicians and on the Zagreb political scene created a backlash, in Croatian People's Party (HNS), the other leftist party led by Vesna Pusić, who did not trust his nationalist populism and his occasional run-ins with the courts. Thus, the HNS campaigned against the SDP on the 2000 elections.[24] Still, HNS entered a coalition with SDP in 2001.[25] They co-ruled Zagreb with SDP until 2005, at which time they stepped out, again because of Bandić.[26]

In 2002, Bandić had fled the scene of motor vehicle accident while under the influence of alcohol an incident that was heavily covered by the media, and the SDP council ruled that he had to irrevocably resign.[2] After his resignation there was some uncertainty - it was indisputable that the SDP had the right to nominate the mayor but the Zagreb SDP was so dominated by Bandić that it was questionable whether they had anyone who could replace him.[2] Eventually Vlasta Pavić took over the mayoral position[27] while Bandić retained a place in the Zagreb chain of command as the deputy mayor.[28] Nonetheless, Bandić was eager to become mayor again, so he continuously tried and blocked Pavić's development plans and advancing his own while working toward a a exceptional election.[29][30][31] In response, Ivica Račan, the head of SDP, tried to restrain his activities.[32] Vlasta Pavić even tried to strike a deal to end the ongoing feud, but Bandić eventually succeeded in undermining Vlasta Pavić. Although there were no exceptional elections, Bandić was re-elected mayor on the May 15, 2005 elections.[3][31]

[edit] Third term (2005-2008)

Following the illness and death of Račan, Bandić announced his candidacy for SDP leadership.[33][34] He was planning to resign as mayor afterwards. He was competing against Željka Antunović, Zoran Milanović and Tonino Picula. Zoran Milanović was elected on June 2, 2007 as the new SDP leader while Bandić remained the Zagreb mayor.[35] Bandić did not give up the fight, though, organizing an opposition inside the party and campaigning to replace Milanović at the next party elections.[36][37]

On June 26, 2008 the Main Committee of SDP received a letter entitled Za što se, uopće, danas zalaže SDP? (English: What, overall, does the SDP stand for today?) by Dražen Lalić, a Croatian sociologist, attacking Bandić and pointing at his misdeeds and errors and also denying Bandić's loyalty to SDP's principles. The letter was initiated due to the assault and battery of anti-corruption oriented Zagreb road authorities director Igor Rađenović, which was long left without proper investigation. The other reason was a concert held on Ban Jelačić Square by Marko Perković Thompson, a singer known to attract fascist and ustaša imagery. Bandić actually supported the concert, instead of condemning it according to SDP anti-nationalistic premises. Although the letter attacked the whole SDP, Bandić was considered the critical instrument in all described events. Bandić responded to the letter indirectly by encouraging the police to do their jobs, and failed to appropriately defend his position.[38][39] Instead, Zoran Milanović responded, accusing Lalić of trying to buy himself a pompous return to the Croatian political scene. This way, Bandić earned the support of SDP, ensuring his candidacy on the upcoming 2009 mayoral elections.[40]

[edit] Fourth term (2009-)

Up until 2009 the mayor was elected by the city council. In the elections held in the spring of 2009, the mayor was elected directly for the first time. Bandić was forced into a second round, this time not by the HDZ candidate (Jasen Mesić), but by the outsider Josip Kregar, the dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb who ran on an independent platform. However, Bandić won the second round gaining 62% to Kregar's 37%.[41] In October, 2009 Bandić visited the site of a World War II Partisan massacre on the island of Daksa, together with the Croatian Bishops' Conference.[42]

On 29 October 2009 Bandić's proposed exceptional budget along with a proposal to hold a referendum on the building of a new football stadium was rejected. Among those voting against was his own party, the SDP.[43]

[edit] Presidential campaign

On November 5 2009, Bandić announced his presidential candidacy in the Croatian presidential election, 2009–2010. This happened after much media speculation concerning his potential candidacy. Bandić's move resulted in him being automatically expelled from Social Democratic Party of Croatia, losing his position as a member of the party's presidency and leader of the Zagreb branch of SDP.

In the December 27, 2009 first round of the election, Bandić received 14.83% of the vote, placing him in second place after SDP candidate Ivo Josipović (with 32.7%). The two entered the second round of the election, to be held on January 10, 2010.

[edit] Mayoral achievements

Renovated Zagrebačka Avenue

One of his best known projects is the renovation of the Ljubljanska Avenue, whose eastern part from Svilkovići Street (later Savska Opatovina Rotary) on was later renamed to Zagrebačka Avenue.[44] He is also credited with the so-called Zagreb apartment model (Croatian: Zagrebački model stanogradnje), also locally known as Bandićevi stanovi (English: Bandić's apartments).[45] Radimir Čačić, another investor in the Zagreb apartment market, accused Bandić of trying to undermine the state-wide POS housing projects. POS (Croatian: POticana Stanogradnja, "subsidized apartments") is a cheap housing model instated by Radimir Čačić during the rule of coalition of SDP, Bandić's party, and several other parties such as Čačić's HNS, which ruled the Croatian government from 2000 to 2003.[45][46]

Bandić has heavily criticized the state of Zagreb's transportation system he encountered on the start of his mayor career.[47] Under the guidance of Zagreb traffic engineers, Bandić has approved many ambitious transportation projects in the city of Zagreb, such as the aforementioned Ljubljanska/Zagrebačka Avenue widening, Homeland Bridge construction,[48] renovation of the green wave system in the city center with bicycle paths running alongside,[49] and building numerous multi-level underground parking garages on Tuškanac, Kvaternik Square and other locations.[50][51] A project of utmost importance started during Bandić's term is the Zagreb metro. The metro is planned to become the main suburban transportation mode of the city.[52] Many important projects have been completed during Bandić's term or are currently in process and supported by Bandić. Bandić has arranged the construction of the Arena Zagreb, a handball arena located in Lanište, which was constructed to prepare the city for the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship.[53][54][55][56]

[edit] Controversies

While an important public official in Zagreb, Bandić is also a controversial figure who has had several run-ins with law enforcement and the media. These run-ins once caused him to resign as mayor and still continue to damage his political reputation.[57][58][59][60]

[edit] Drunk driving and resignation

In January 2002, Milan Bandić was stopped by Krešimir Mišić, a police officer, and accused of drunk driving. Bandić's attempt to bribe the officer was unsuccessful, at which point he threatened the officer through his alleged connections with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Croatia. His threats failed and Mišić turned him in. When the media later found out about the incident and criticized Bandić, Mišić was fired for leaking information to the press. Under political pressure, Bandić resigned.[2][58][61] A police investigation found out that Mišić had 92 open cases when he was fired, so he was also subjected to a disciplinary process for neglecting work. Bandić later helped him return to the police and even became the godfather to Mišić's daughter.[61]

[edit] The "Zagrepčanka" case

An incident occurred in April 2004. The mayor at the time, Vlasta Pavić criticized Bandić for having spent 15 million kunas (about US$3.26 million) of city money to buy the lot on the Heinzelova Avenue, which was formerly owned by the meat packing plant Zagrepčanka. The controversy was dubbed "the Zagrepčanka case" by the newspapers.[29][58] However, the city government could not use the lot, due to it being spread over 43 owners. One of them, Ivan Radošević, later accused Bandić of wiring an explosive device under his car in an effort to stop the controversy from going public.[62] In response to Pavić's critique, Bandić cursed her mother.[29][58] He also published a newspaper advertisement on behalf of the city government named Istina je! (English: It's true!). Issuing the advertisement was supported in unison by all SDP members in the city council except Vlasta Pavić, the mayor at that time. Ivica Račan later condemned the advertisement as a political mistake and told the Zagreb SDP section they would face consequences for this action.[63][64]

A court case ensued with charges being brought up against Bandić and others involved.[64] Three years later, Bandić was acquitted of charges and the City of Zagreb was awarded ownership of the Zagrepčanka lot in a court judgment. Bandić promised a new business district in the Zagrepčanka location.[65]

However, not all legal troubles have been solved, as city still has to deal with unsolved cases and distraints entered against the lot.[66] In 2008, the sale of the Zagrepčanka lot to Institute IGH d.d. was announced, but the deal fell through in 2009, and this has the potential to incur a cost of 4.5 million euros to the Zagreb holding company.[67]

[edit] Land exchange case

As of October 2007, Bandić is under investigation by the USKOK (Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime) about several deals he made as the mayor of Zagreb, including exchanging a lot on the intersection of Maksimirska Street and Šušak Avenue for a lot in Sesvetski Kraljevec in July 2007. The court-appointed expert allowed the exchange claiming a price of 1,300 kuna per square meter (185 euros) for the Sesvete lot (located in the suburbs, outside the Zagreb bypass and 2,300 kuna (321 euros) for the Maksimirska lot (located in Maksimir district several hundred meters away from the downtown). New experts considered the lot in Maksimirska Street to be actually much more valuable and the lot in Sesvetski Kraljevec to be much less valuable. Thus, an USKOK source stated Bandić made a deal damaging to the city budget. The two companies with whom Bandić concluded this deal were led by inexperienced students, even more deeply extenuating the incident which arose.[68][69]

[edit] Cvjetni prolaz case

Bandić has been heavily involved in the Cvjetni prolaz case, a lengthy affair starting in 2007, which includes the demolition and conversion of historical buildings on the Petar Preradović Square (Cvjetni Square) in the center of the Zagreb downtown into a shopping mall.[70] The project is led by Tomislav Horvatinčić, a construction entrepreneur, who is allegedly responsible for using illegal means to try to evict the current dwellers. These include the headquarters and a church operated by the Zagreb-Ljubljana metropolia of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the home of the late poet Vladimir Vidrić.[71] Bandić is known to be a strong supporter of Horvatinčić,[72] making overt statements in favor of Horvatinčić's investment, and publicly insulting opponents of the project.[73] In August 2008, Horvatinčić obtained a license to demolish the old buildings. Residents of the surrounding buildings and environmentalists argue the license was improperly issued, but the demolition is currently still underway.[74] However, Horvatinčić is still not allowed to proceed with the demolition of Vidrić's home, nor build any part of the project until he obtains a building location license. The license requires him to prove he can build a hallway between Gundulićeva Street and Cvjetni Square.[75]

[edit] Other minor controversies

A controversy arose on July 31, 2005, when Bandić was on a bus with 30 other people and he saw workers on the street waving. He then allegedly cited the Auschwitz motto: "Work liberates, the Nazis weren't totally dumb."[76] Hrvoje Krešić, a Novi list journalist allegedly heard Bandić and published his statement. The following day Bandić threatened to sue Krešić and Novi list and claimed he said "Marxists," not "Nazis". Bandić's statement was backed up by several of his colleagues who were in proximity, whereas other journalists that were at the rear of the bus did not hear any statements made by Bandić due to the noise present inside the vehicle.[77] Bandić claimed that, if awarded damages, he will donate the money to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The director of the center, Efraim Zuroff, refused Bandić's money.[78]

In January 2006, Bandić publicly threatened a journalist working for Večernji list. The journalist asked Bandić about an offer from a Czech company, but Bandić replied aggressively, cursing and threatening the journalist. Afterwards he claimed he had simply spoken to the journalist in a high-pitched tone.[57]

On May 31, 2007, Bandić fell asleep during a session of the Zagreb City Assembly shortly before noon. TV cameras promptly captured this moment.[79] Apparently, this was not the first time he suffered from sleep problems, since he fell asleep on June 16, 2006 in Croatian National Theater, when he had to present the promotion of Marija Mustać, the secretary of the Croatian Association of the Blind.[80]

In May 2008, Bandić left his car incorrectly parked in the middle of Pavao Šubić Avenue presenting a road hazard and causing traffic problems. During that time he held a public presentation of a camera system designed to issue tickets to red light runners, improperly parked cars and the like. He also went shopping in the Dolac farmer's market while his driver waited in the car obstructing traffic. When questioned about this incident, Bandić blamed it on his driver.[81]

[edit] Honors

On July 10 2009 he was proclaimed to be citizen of honor in Srebrenica.[82][83][84]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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Preceded by
Josip Kregar

(governor appointed by Croatian government)

 Mayor of Zagreb
2000 – 2002		 Succeeded by
Vlasta Pavić
Preceded by
Vlasta Pavić		 Mayor of Zagreb
2005 –		 Succeeded by
(incumbent)
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