(ANSA-AFP) - ZAGREB, JAN 18 - Croatian Deputy Prime Minister
Josip Dabro, a leading member of a nationalist hard-right party,
resigned on Saturday after a video surfaced of him shooting at
random from a moving car. The incident is the latest to trouble
the cabinet of conservative Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic,
whose health minister, Vili Bros, was dismissed in November to
face a corruption probe. "I hereby submit my irrevocable
resignation," Dabro posted on Facebook. The 42-year-old was also
agriculture minister in Plenkovic's government. The video, made
public by the daily Jutarnji List earlier this week, shows him
sitting in the passenger seat of a moving car, singing to loud
music and firing a pistol into the dark. Lights in the distance
appear to show an inhabited area. "I am aware that these
circumstances create an additional burden for the government and
my party," he wrote in his resignation statement. "My personal
situation should not distract the government and the ministry
from their priorities or delay necessary reforms." He said he
had sought to implement "changes" within the farming, forestry
and fishing ministry to introduce greater "transparency" and had
been subject to "significant pressures and threats". In his
initial public reaction to the video on Friday night, Dabro said
it had been filmed several years ago and that he had been firing
training bullets, Hina news agency reported. (ANSA-AFP).
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