ZAGREB, April 25 (Hina) - The editor-in-chief of Globus weekly, Igor Alborghetti, on Friday extended his apologies to Croatian president and prime minister because of an opinion poll in the weekly which the president's office
interpreted as a call for their assassination.
ZAGREB, April 25 (Hina) - The editor-in-chief of Globus weekly,
Igor Alborghetti, on Friday extended his apologies to Croatian
president and prime minister because of an opinion poll in the
weekly which the president's office interpreted as a call for their
assassination. #L#
In its latest issue, Globus published the results of a poll
according to which 11.8% of a total of 800 people questioned agreed
with a statement that "(Prime Minister) Ivica Racan and (President)
Stjepan Mesic should end up like (the assassinated Serbian PM)
Djindjic because this is the only option of salvation for
Croatia".
In an apology also forwarded to the public, Alborghetti said the
poll question had been imprecisely constructed and misinterpreted.
He says Globus's intention was "to reveal the kind of thinking"
which produced the "shocking and civilisationally unacceptable"
recent similar statement by a leader of a Homeland War disabled
veterans' association from Sinj, Drazen Pavlovic.
"If President Mesic, Prime Minister Racan and some of the Croatian
public understood our question in a different context, we
apologise," Alborghetti said.
He explained that the aim of the poll was to see how the Croatian
public perceived recent events in Serbia.
The Croatian President's Office on Friday forwarded an open letter
to the president of the Croatian Journalists' Society (HND),
Dragutin Lucic, in which it said that the question "clearly implies
a call for the murder of the president and prime minister".
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