The Croatian government on Thursday amended the regulation on terms and conditions for the use of executive cars for official purposes under which cabinet ministers are entitled to use middle-class executive cars while deputy prime ministers are eligible to use upper middle-class ones.
Also, official drivers will be available to these office-holders round the clock.
The changes of the regulation were triggered off by the public outrage at the latest procurement of 1,500 cars, including a few topnotch vehicles for state officials.
Alluding to the case which he labeled as "a saga about automobiles", Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said that the government could have, perhaps, responded earlier but "it acted in good faith and naively".
He said that his cabinet had conducted (the procurement of those cars) in compliance with the rules and if the rules were not good, they could be amended.
(Hina)
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