PM apologises for wrong figures about purchase of government vehicles

Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic held a news conference on Tuesday to apologise for giving wrong figures about the purchase of vehicles for the government departments, the figures that were considerably higher than the actual prices.

"I apologise for this press conference, which wouldn't have been necessary had we said everything yesterday," the prime minister said at a second news briefing in as many days devoted to the purchase of vehicles for the ministries.

The most expensive of the cars taken on lease do not cost 650,000 kuna per vehicle but about 450,000 kuna. With the exclusion of duties payable to the state, which in the case of the most expensive vehicles reach about 190,000 kuna, the price of those vehicles is about 270,000 kuna, Milanovic said.

"You can forget those 650,000 kuna," the PM said while speaking about the price of the ten most expensive vehicles ordered by the government.

Milanovic reiterated that the vehicles would be allocated to the police, while the ministers would be given middle class cars. He announced that the regulation governing the purchase of vehicles for state officials would be amended at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday so that it would not be possible to order such expensive vehicles as had been the case so far.

(1 euro = 7.65 kuna)

(Hina)



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