ZAGREB, Jan 25(Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said on Sunday he expected Assistant Interior Minister Stipe Cacija to resign if the latest media reports about him proved true. Sanja Jadrijevic from Sinj accused Cacija in
Saturday's issue of Slobodna Dalmacija daily of refusing to recognise and pay alimony for their 18-year-old son who was born out of wedlock, but who a court established was Cacija's son.
ZAGREB, Jan 25(Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said on
Sunday he expected Assistant Interior Minister Stipe Cacija to resign
if the latest media reports about him proved true. Sanja Jadrijevic
from Sinj accused Cacija in Saturday's issue of Slobodna Dalmacija
daily of refusing to recognise and pay alimony for their 18-year-old
son who was born out of wedlock, but who a court established was
Cacija's son. #L#
"If Mrs. Jadrijevic's claims prove true, I expect Cacija to resign,
and since new elements in this case keep coming up every day, I will
talk to him first," Sanader said when asked about the Cacija case at
the opening of an exhibition in the Jewish Community offices in
Zagreb.
Sanader said he would talk to Cacija today.
The government's public relations office said in a statement later in
the day that Cacija had made his mandate available.
Explaining his decision in a letter, Cacija said the reason for his
making his mandate available was an article in Slobodna Dalmacija of
January 24 in which he was accused of not paying alimony for his son
who the daily said lived in destitute conditions.
Cacija said he was making his mandate available until the allegations
were investigated.
(Hina) rml