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Milan Bandić

May 11, 2024

Milan Bandić (22 November 1955 – 28 February 2021) was a Croatian politician and the longest-serving mayor of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Bandić was mayor almost continuously from 2000 to 2021, except during the time between his resignation in 2002 and the 2005 election. He was also suspended from exercising his powers and duties for several months after his 2014 arrest over a corruption scandal. Out of Bandić's multifaceted engagement in politics, the most noted part was his mayoralty of Zagreb, which followed the Croatian Democratic Union's (HDZ) first post-socialist period of government (1990–2000), and exacerbated many existing transitional problems in the city.

Milan Bandić
Bandić in 2018
50th and 52nd Mayor of Zagreb
In office
14 June 2005 – 28 February 2021
Powers and duties suspended:
21 November 2014 – 9 March 2015
Preceded byVlasta Pavić
Succeeded byJelena Pavičić Vukičević (Acting)
Tomislav Tomašević
In office
2 June 2000 – 1 March 2002
Preceded byMarina Matulović-Dropulić
Succeeded byVlasta Pavić
Deputy Mayor of Zagreb
for Social Services
In office
4 April 2002 – 14 June 2005
Serving with Stipe Tojčić
MayorVlasta Pavić
Preceded byMorana Paliković-Gruden
Vlasta Pavić
Succeeded byIvo Jelušić
Ljiljana Kuhta Jeličić
President of the Bandić Milan 365 – Labour and Solidarity Party
In office
28 March 2015 – 28 February 2021
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byJelena Pavičić Vukičević (Acting)
Slavko Kojić
Personal details
Born(1955-11-22)22 November 1955
Grude, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Died28 February 2021(2021-02-28) (aged 65)
Zagreb, Croatia
Political partySKH (1980–1990)
SDP (1990–2009)
BM 365 (2015–2021)
Spouses
Vesna Bandić
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(m. 1981; div. 1996)​
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(m. 2003)​
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Parents
  • Jozo Bandić
  • Blagica Tomić
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionTeacher

Born in the Herzegovinian town of Grude, Bandić moved to Zagreb to study to become a teacher of Marxism and Defence and Protection at the University of Zagreb. Starting in the early 1980s, he rose through the ranks of the League of Communists of Croatia and its post-1990 successor, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), becoming a city councillor in 1995 and president of the SDP's Zagreb branch in 1997. Following the 1995–97 Zagreb crisis, he led the opposition against the imposed HDZ administration led by Mayor Marina Matulović Dropulić. Forcing snap elections in 2000, following the fall of the national HDZ government, Bandić ran for mayor with the SDP and won a plurality with 20% of the vote. He would go on to serve five more terms. In 2009, he was expelled from the SDP for running for Croatian president in the 2009–10 election, where he ran against and lost the second round to the SDP's chosen candidate, Ivo Josipović. In 2015, he formed a new party, Bandić Milan 365 – Labour and Solidarity Party, and entered into a coalition with the HDZ. His mayoralty was fraught with scandals and interrupted twice. First time was from 2002 to 2005 when he was caught fleeing the scene of an accident he caused while drunk driving and threatening the police officer who caught him; he resigned and was kept on as deputy mayor for social services under Acting Mayor Vlasta Pavić. The second time was in 2014–15 due to prosecution in the Agram affair which was still ongoing at the time of his death. Bandić remained mayor throughout the events, but was temporarily forbidden from exercising his mayoral duties and powers, and appointed Sandra Švaljek and later Vesna Kusin as acting mayors before fully assuming his duties. Some of the scandals led to convictions of high-ranking city officials, but Bandić himself was never convicted of a felony, though he was fined for conflicts of interest.

Bandić ruled the city in a direct and highly centralised manner, devolving few to no powers to elected officials beneath him, and maintaining much control over the city during the periods when he was not in office. His politics was populist, primarily seeking support from the poor, while trying to appeal to the rest of the citizens by announcing numerous capital infrastructure projects. A few projects were realised in the mid-2000s, such as Lake Bundek renovation, construction of Arena Zagreb and Zagreb Avenue widening, as well as the long-awaited late-2010s construction of an underpass under Remetinec Roundabout. Many more were repeatedly announced but never completed, e.g. reconstruction of the Sljeme cable car, a spa in Blato, completing the long-awaited Blato University Hospital, a congress centre, and reconstructing the Maksimir Stadium.[2][3][4] Public transport was not improved beyond renewing the tram rolling stock. Bandić's era saw an unprecedented 20 years go by without the construction of new tram lines, despite his many announcements of tram network expansions.

Bandić died of an alleged heart attack in early 2021, two months before the regular local elections, having held office for 17 years and 165 days. He was succeeded in his roles of mayor and BM 365 president by his deputy, now acting mayor, Jelena Pavičić Vukičević. His legacy remained controversial due to numerous nepotism and clientelism scandals – which involved many of his associates, including his successor Pavičić Vukičević – budget deficit and soon to mature bonds, and the slow and expensive recovery from the heavily damaging 2020 earthquakes. During his mayoralty, Bandić was bestowed with several honours including honorary citizenship of Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and membership in the Brethren of the Croatian Dragon.

Mayor of Zagreb edit

Continuing his predecessor, Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) government's, 1990s pattern of deregulation and abandonment of urban planning,[5][6][7][8] Bandić's mayoralty was characterised by unsustainable projects[9] creating unplanned investment-driven sprawl and causing overbuilding.[10][11] The inconsistency and non-specificity of the general urban master plans of 2003 and 2007 allowed the private sector to take over the role of urban planning from professionals.[12][13][14] The master plan was frequently altered to accord with private investors' interests,[15][16][17] while citizens and urban planners had minimal participation in the projects.[18][14] As a consequence, it failed to achieve its objections, and urban renewal in Zagreb was characteristic of the so-called era of the bulldozer: a discarded approach involving construction of unsustainable luxury housing on the site of former undesirable neighbourhoods and areas.[19][20] The city continued an ongoing trend of losing vegetation, replacing a significant fraction of its green spaces with pavement and buildings.[21][22] Bandić's administration was highly centralised. Bandić was directly involved in all matters that concerned running the city. The 1999 city statute created two levels of self-government: 17 arbitrarily drawn city districts which were divided into local committees. In practice, district councils were bogged down in bureaucracy and had no effect beyond enacting plans for "small community actions", while forming of local committees only began in 2008. During the Great Recession, the city cut the funding for small community actions, effectively stopping self-governmental activity.[23][24] Bandić's mayoralty reduced citizen participation to a formality, using manipulation and confrontation to marginalise citizens who disagreed with their initiatives. Bandić often confronted disagreeing citizens and participated in publicity stunts.[25][26][27]

 
Adris grupa building looms over Neoclassical architecture of Primorska Street
 
HOTO Tower interrupts the sidewalk on Savska Road, a major road in central Zagreb

The master plan removed a long-standing moratorium on construction of buildings over nine storeys in height.[28] Together with lack of precision in detailed spatial plans,[29] which were in fact abrogated for many city project areas in the 2006 plan,[30] this state of affairs allowed new structures to arbitrarily affect the city's skyline.[29] High-rise office towers in urban areas and dense housing projects in previously suburban areas, such as Lanište and Borovje,[31][32] were built without improvements to infrastructure and corresponding amenities, causing traffic jams and overburdening of schools, hospitals and other amenities.[33][34][29][35] New apartment buildings lagged behind late Communist-era housing in construction standards and amenities.[36] In one case, poor construction standards at a building site led to the creation of a sinkhole which swallowed up one whole side of Kupska Street in Trnje.[37][38][39]

Much of the prime development space was allocated to commercial developments, numerous shopping malls in particular, while new residential developments were relegated to less attractive and poorly connected, previously industrial areas.[29][40][41] Among other cultural venues, Bandić made efforts to resettle Zagreb Hippodrome, Zagreb Fair and NK Lokomotiva's football stadium to clear space for real estate development.[42][43] By 2006, Zagreb had over 30 shopping malls.[44] Overbuilding and subsequent failure of shopping malls created abandoned lots in areas well supported by infrastructure.[45] It also caused a loss of profitability and large-scale closure of small shops and crafts in the city centre, especially on Ilica, Zagreb's historical high street,[46][47] and created private land out of previously public sections of streets and squares, particularly in the Donji grad pedestrian zone.[48] Lack of interest and investment on the city's part enabled continued decay of old buildings in the city centre, making them vulnerable to purchase and conversion into luxury apartments, which attracted the rich and displaced existing middle class residents.[49][50][51] The city centre also lost population as residents were beset by high traffic and noise pollution—the city raised allowed noise limits to 95 dB during daytime and 90 dB at night, far above Ministry of Health regulations.[52] Bandić would repeatedly put focus on attractive perennial capital projects, while failing to improve Zagreb's aging infrastructure; in 2015, 80,000 households lacked running water and sewerage connections. Funds raised by Zagreb Holding bonds in 2007 for the purpose of improving infrastructure were almost in entirety spent on other projects, including real estate acquisition.[53][54]

In the 1990s, Zagreb was hit by a spate of illegal construction. Informal settlements were created by refugees of Yugoslav Wars, while better-off land owners built or enlarged their homes without permits. Illegal building due to property speculation was most prevalent in the Medvednica Foothills, renamed Podsljeme in 1999.[6][55] Construction in Podsljeme in particular has been characterised by so-called "urban villas" (urbane vile), apartment buildings of up to twenty flats, densely packed into formerly green areas and often lacking basic services and facilities.[10][56][22] In 1998, the Croatian Democratic Union's Matulović-Dropulić administration legalised all illegal developments built up to that point, with the clause that future illegal construction would be demolished.[57] However, the problem of illegal construction intensified after Bandić came to power, expanding from the suburbs into the interiors of Donji grad city blocks.[58] Bandić, who himself constructed a house illegally,[59] defended illegal construction throughout his mayoralty,[60] supporting an early 2010s effort by the Kukuriku coalition government to legalise over 90,000 buildings in Zagreb;[61][62][63] yet few buildings in destitute Kozari Putevi neighbourhood, where Bandić had launched his career in 2000, had been legalised by 2013.[64] Some of the legalised buildings ended up preventing the construction of long-planned arterial roads in whose paths they were located.[65]

Flower Square affair edit

 
Flower Square before the shopping mall was constructed

Bandić established himself as the person in charge of all aspects of running Zagreb,[66] becoming a spokesman for several controversial projects, one of which was the construction of a shopping mall on a historic Donji grad square.[67] In 2006, real estate developer Tomislav Horvatinčić, who had made use of Bandić's new urban master plan to build the 17-storey HOTO Tower in 2004, presented a plan for "Life Style Center" (later to become Centar Cvjetni, "Flower Centre"), a 50,000 m2 (540,000 sq ft) mall with a 700-car underground parking garage in Zagreb's pedestrian zone, on the Petar Preradović Square, popularly known as Flower Square (Cvjetni trg).[68][13][69][70][71] The project involved tearing down former home of Zagreb's most famous architect Hermann Bollé, the birth house of poet Vladimir Vidrić, and the Cinema Zagreb.[72] It was opposed by the NGOs Green Action and Right to the City, as well as numerous public figures.[73] The Serbian Orthodox Church also opposed the project, laying claim to Cinema Zagreb, which had been expropriated from the church by the post-WWII Communist government.[71] A petition to stop the project was run, collecting over 54,000 signatures.[68][74]

After initially denying the existence of the shopping mall project,[75] Bandić supported Horvatinčić's efforts by modifying the general urban master plan.[76] Horvatinčić attracted controversy by calling the buildings "rat holes";[75][77] the invective was picked up by the Bandić administration.[78][68] In one case in 2007, Bandić publicly cursed out the protesters, singling out Right to the City leader Teodor Celakoski.[79] Protests and lawsuits filed by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning delayed and reduced the scope of the project, which at one point involved remodelling the entire city block, but ultimately failed to stop it,[73][80] in large part thanks to Bandić's involvement.[81] Notably, police cracked down on a protest in February 2010 opposing the conversion of part of Varšavska Street pedestrian zone to parking garage ramp, arresting its leaders, including Green Action president Tomislav Tomašević and actress Urša Raukar.[82][83] The ramp was finished in 2011, completing the project.[84] Further expansions of the shopping mall were prevented by a 2013 amendment to the general urban master plan.[85] A related controversy arose temporarily in 2016, as Bandić administration allowed Horvatinčić to place a bar patio in front of the entrance to the Flower Square's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, also hindering access to a public seating area. Bandić withdrew the permit after public pressure.[86]

Other Bandić's projects at Flower Square included an unexecuted project for canopy and floor heating in the adjoining Bogovićeva and Petrićeva Streets[87] and closing down Cinema Europa, the home of Zagreb Film Festival, despite public protests. Bandić described the closure of the cinema as "stealing [Cinema Europa] away from tycoon privatisation."[88][89] Much of Flower Square today is covered by coffee bar patios, and few flower stands remain.[90][91]

Zagreb Housing Development Model edit

 
"Urban villas" – sidewalks are rare in the narrow streets of densely built Medvednica Foothills

At the end of the 1990s, the Croatian government began a programme of social housing called Subsidised Housing Development Programme (Program društveno poticane stanogradnje, POS), creating private-public partnerships to develop housing estates accessible to low-income residents.[92] One POS housing estate was built in Zagreb: Špansko–Oranice, whose construction began during the mayoralty of Vlasta Pavić.[93] Soon after Bandić's return to power in 2005, his administration bought out the government's POS projects in Zagreb, Bandić terming the city-led projects the "Zagreb housing development model" (Zagrebački model stanogradnje). Despite Bandić prominently leading social housing projects for low-income residents,[94] few such projects eventually panned out.[95] At the same time, a glut of higher-priced housing was created. It was estimated that only half of all new flats built privately between 2001 and 2008 had been sold by 2013.[96]

According to urban planners, City of Zagreb's private-public partnership model was a "complete failure".[96] Despite the fact that POS estates residents were highly content with their new housing,[97] in large part owing to the exceedingly low quality and availability of existing affordable housing and high demand for cheap flats,[98][99] only three out of nine POS estates: Špansko–Oranice, Sopnica–Jelkovec and Vrbani III were built by 2015,[95] while the construction in a fourth one, Podbrežje, finally began in 2016,[100] but the plan was later amended and only a few buildings were constructed by 2021.[101][102][103] 2014 research showed that only 6.1 percent of Zagreb's residents lived in POS housing,[104] a far lower share than in social housing projects of other European capitals.[105] The new estates were also criticised for high flat prices rivalling those in a cheap gated community in Sveta Nedelja, Zagreb County.[106][107]

The plan for Sopnica–Jelkovec estate (later renamed Novi Jelkovec) was laid out in 2003 and amended several times.[108] The location was set in the Sesvete industrial zone, on the site of the former Sljeme pig factory, whose grounds the city purchased in 1999.[109] The project would create a new neighbourhood on a 39.5-hectare (98-acre) area that was to be connected to the city by an extension of Vukovar Street and a new tram line, with numerous amenities such as a library, a kindergarten and a community swimming pool.[98][109] Bandić associated himself publicly with the project after taking it over from the POS programme.[94] The City of Zagreb invested 2.5 billion kuna (€300 million) into the project,[109] whose construction began in 2006. In 2009, at the opening of the estate, Bandić announced that "we almost solved the housing problems of most of [Zagreb's] residents [who could not afford a flat]."[110] In the next several years, the estate attained a negative reputation as none of the promised facilities and traffic connections materialised.[109] Many of the residents were assigned flats lacking basic amenities such as internet and phone service.[111] Bus lines were added to the neighbourhood only in 2013. An additional problem was poor construction causing water leaks.[109] Bandić took a leading role in the allocation of flats,[94] where inhabitants of the same social status were largely accorded flats in the same buildings, creating segregation and stunting social cohesion.[112][109][113] Most of the problems were eventually remedied and the residents expressed satisfaction with the estate in a survey five years after its opening, but it could not shake off its initial negative reputation,[114] leading to significant vacancy rates years after it was constructed.[109][115] In 2020, the remaining apartment were offered at reduced rent rates to the Zagreb earthquake victims.[116]

Construction of the Vrbani III estate started in 2006, after a 2004 design contest. Located near Lake Jarun, it was intended to be located between two new roads and a new park. It was also intended to feature a new kindergarten and elementary school.[117] The amenities were only partially completed in following years, causing the residents to rely on nearby neighbourhoods for daily needs.[118][119][120] The first flats were sold by 2006, when it came to light that some of the buildings were affected by severe tap water contamination with mineral oil concentrations over 500 times the legal allowance.[121][122] Bandić was quick to dismiss the issue, lining up with mayor's office employees to drink from an affected hydrant in a publicity stunt,[123] and assuring citizens that the problem would be remedied within days.[124] Affected residents ended up relying for years on bottled water for all their daily needs except flushing toilets until the problem was remedied.[125] Zagrebgradnja, Geoprojekt and Capital Ing, the companies involved in the construction of Vrbani III, were eventually found liable in court for the contamination.[126] The city nevertheless continued to do business with the companies. Several of Bandić's associates, including Jelena Pavičić Vukičević would obtain flats in a Geoprojekt project, while Bandić himself reportedly had flats in Zagrebgradnja buildings.[127][128] Zagrebgradnja and Geoprojekt were among the companies with whom Bandić conducted hundreds of unsupervised land swaps from at least 2005 until 2009, which would later be investigated by USKOK.[129]

While not labelled part of Zagreb Housing Development Model by Bandić, Arena Zagreb and its surrounding neighbourhoods exhibited many related problems.[130][112] At the onset of Great Recession, Bandić pushed for the construction of Arena Zagreb, one of several controversial handball stadiums which were opened in 2009 for the purposes of hosting the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship.[131] The venue, which would house sports matches and concerts, drew controversy from the start, having been built at a different location and according to a different plan from the one chosen at the public tender.[112] In addition, the costs required that it be occupied 250 days a year to break even. The arena was constructed by a private-public partnership which left the city paying for part of the arena's upkeep on top of renting it from the concessionaire, who themselves had expressed doubts in the venue's cost-effectiveness.[131][132][133][134] The arena was paired with the adjacent Arena Centar shopping mall,[135] and more construction followed in the form of Jaruščica housing estate and expansion of Lanište. Years later, the neighbourhood lacked basic amenities such as parks, schools, kindergartens and ambulatory care clinics, using up capacities of nearby older neighbourhoods. Public spaces were largely devoid of trees and instead dominated by parking lots,[44][112] which were still insufficient for the needs of Arena Zagreb concertgoers, causing parking problems for residents.[136][137] As part of the confidential concession agreement, the passage of Arena Zagreb into city ownership depends on regular payments of rental fees, which Bandić's administration did not service in timely fashion.[138][139]

Transport infrastructure edit

 
Renovated Zagreb Avenue

Bandić frequently talked about the state of transport infrastructure in Zagreb,[140][141] regularly announcing numerous capital infrastructure projects, which would allegedly remedy traffic problems in Zagreb.[142][143][144] Some of these were urban motorways through densely populated Medvednica Foothills, a tunnel under the Medvednica that would connect Zagreb with Zagorje[145][142][143] various tunnels and underpasses in the historic city centre,[146][147][148] extensions of numerous arterial roads, such as Branimir Road and Prisavlje[149][150] and building several new bridges over Sava near Jarun[151] and Bundek.[152][150]

A few projects were carried out: widening part of Ljubljana Avenue (which Bandić subsequently in a populist move renamed Zagreb Avenue),[153] Radnička Road and Jankomir Bridge, and constructing Homeland Bridge and overpasses or underpasses at several high traffic junctions such as Remetinec Roundabout.[154][155] A few new stretches of arterial roads were built, including filling a one-kilometre gap in Branimir Road, which took place from 2005 to 2016.[156] Many projects were criticised for the poor quality of execution, such as an underpass which continued to flood regularly during rainfall despite specific repairs to that end, and the inconsistently marked cycling paths.[157][158][159][160]

In 2016, the city renovated the pedestrian Sava Bridge,[161] and in 2018 began works to renovate Liberty Bridge.[162] In 2019, Sava Bridge was closed after a part of the pavement fell through onto the embankment below. Bandić said the bridge was safe and would be repaired within days.[161] However, the failed pavement remained closed to traffic until the end of Bandić's mayoralty, at which time it was scheduled to be opened in 2022.[163][164] After finishing the Liberty Bridge renovation in December 2019,[165] the city began the renovation of Youth Bridge; this was also Bandić's last announcement of imminent works on his perennial Jarun Bridge project.[166] The Liberty Bridge renovation was criticised by the Ministry of Construction and Spatial Planning for only renovating asphalt and railings instead of carrying out repairs to the dangerously corroded bridge structure.[167][168]

Public transport edit

Most of Bandić's involvements in transport infrastructure concerned car traffic.[71][46] For instance, while the cycling infrastructure was expanded, it was still fragmentary and cycling rate lagged behind other European capitals, despite Zagreb having one of the smallest shares of car traffic in the commute modal split.[169] Although Bandić announced numerous new lines in the core of Zagreb's public transport, its tram network, his administration did not realise any of these projects, leading to an unprecedented 20-year drought in tram line construction.[170] In 2000, Bandić opened two new tram lines, Dubrava–Dubec and Jarun–Prečko, construction of which was finished during the previous mayor's term. These remained the last new tram tracks in the city.[171] The Prečko turning circle remains marred by a property dispute, which at one point occasioned a temporary closure.[172] In 2007, the city announced construction of seven new tram lines "over the next few years", including lines in Trešnjevka, Lanište, Dubrava, and the never realised[173] Jarun Bridge, two different lines to Zagreb Airport, as well as proposals for further tram lines in Trnje and on the never built Vatikanska Street extension.[174] Bandić would announce construction on many of these lines again until the end of his mayoralty.[175][176][177] Further tram lines and other projects, such as reconstructing the tram storage yard or an intermodal terminal at Sava Bridge, were announced, but no such plans came to fruition by the end of the mayoralty.[172][87][173][178] When one of the perennial airport tram projects was brought up by news media in 2019, Bandić denied he proposed it.[179] On multiple occasions since the mid-2000s, Bandić had presented plans for a subway network;[145] in 2014, the plan involved a 17-kilometre (11 mi) light rail line to be finished by 2017.[180][181][87][182][183] Subway plans were revived after the 2020 earthquake, "so that trams would not cause vibrations [in the apartments]" of the residents in damaged city centre buildings, per Bandić.[184]

In the early 2000s, the City of Zagreb selected Crotram's TMK 2200 as the lowest bid for conversion of Zagreb tram rolling stock to low-floor vehicles; the first trams were announced during Pavić's mayoralty.[185] Bandić pushed for purchase of TMK 2200s, which came to dominate the rolling stock, with 140 units by 2010.[186][187] Though he announced and lobbied for plans to sell Crotram units in a number of European cities, including Stockholm, Sofia and Helsinki, the deals all fell through,[188] with Helsinki residents finding the test units "cramped and noisy",[189] while Osijek, the other Croatian city with a tram network, found imported trams to be cheaper.[187] In 2017, wheelchair ramps were installed in the low-floor trams, since the tram floors did not line up with platforms.[190]

 
 
Comparison of Deloitte building in Oslo (left) and new Sljeme cable car terminal in Gračani (right)

One of Bandić's long-running projects was the reconstruction of the Sljeme cable car [hr]. The original Sljeme cable car was opened by Mayor Pero Pirker in 1963. After long calling into question the safety of the cable car, Bandić closed the cable car in 2007 after the failure of an electric motor.[191] In 2008, plans were announced for a new, higher capacity cable car to be opened in 2009.[192] Money continued to be spent on the project,[193] which eventually expanded to a €45 million scheme which would have included an extension with Zagorje at Bistra.[194] Eventually, construction began in 2019 and only on the original cable car's route, while Bandić announced a new tram line under Medvednica, which was also not realised.[173] The cable car was to be opened in 2020, but the opening was pushed back several times,[195][196] including for "strengthening steel reinforcements" after the Petrinja earthquake.[197] Bandić was criticised by the opposition for continuing with the expensive project after the devastating March 2020 earthquake.[198] A legal expert also characterised the cable car terminal as a plagiarism of the Deloitte building in Oslo, Norway.[199] The city announced that they would apply for EU funding to finance the cable car.[200] ZET took out a 537 million kuna (€72 million) long-term loan to finance the project.[201][202] The cost overruns included some highly overpriced construction materials, totalling at 0.4 percent under the limit which would require additional legal oversight. Bandić disavowed responsibility for the overruns, saying the causes were outside his control.[203] As of 2021, the cost overruns were under investigation by USKOK following a 7-hour YouTube video by a pseudonymous whistleblower,[204] and the cable car remained under construction.[205][206][197][207]

Parking garages and square remodelling edit

 
Kvaternik Square after remodelling.
 
St. Mark's Square was repaved in the late 2000s by leftover tram track paving stones.[208]

In an attempt to alleviate traffic problems, the city built a number of parking garages in the early 2000s. Garages were built under Lang and Kvaternik Squares, drastically changing their appearance.[209][210] In the latter case, the garage came to dominate a larger plan for a makeover of Kvaternik Square,[211] which followed the removal of its popular farmers' market.[212] In order to accommodate car traffic, highly trafficked zebra crossings were replaced with underground walkways.[211] The new square was widely criticised as it became unattractive to pedestrians and consequently remained empty.[46] A survey found the new Kvaternik Square to be the most unpleasant square in Zagreb.[213] Some reconstruction and renovation projects were also criticised for shoddy workmanship, e.g. the controversial British Square remodelling created a roundabout too narrow to be traversed by the city buses,[214] while the fountain in its centre sprayed water on a nearby bus station[215] (this particular remodelling was investigated by USKOK).[216][217] The Homeland Monument on Stjepan Radić Square, unveiled in December 2020, was showing material wear already by April next year.[218] The effect of these remodellings has been described as an "elimination of squares".[219]

An early 2000s plan for a public parking garage for visitors of Children's Hospital Zagreb under the Ellipse High School Sports Ground [hr; sh] behind Mimara Museum[220] ballooned into a—later abandoned—310 million kuna (€43 million) private-public partnership project with an attached shopping mall.[221] An alternative deemed more attractive by the Zagreb leadership was a garage under the Republic of Croatia Square.[222] Bandić lobbied for the controversial project which involved pedestrian entrances surrounding Ivan Meštrović's monument, Well of Life, while garage ramps would flank the 19th-century building of the Croatian National Theatre.[223][224] Late 2000s plans called for three further garages in the vicinity of Flower Square and one under Strossmayer Square, as well as 16 more inside various Donji grad blocks. Most of these plans were abandoned after opposition by art history societies and intervention by courts, Ministry of Culture as well as SDP party leadership. One planned garage was constructed as a private venture, part of Centar Cvjetni (see § Flower Square affair).[225] In 2010, Zagreb Assembly enacted an ordinance against parking garages in Donji grad, effectively putting an end to the developments, although Bandić and Zagrebparking officials continued to toy with the idea of a garage under the theatre for a few more years.[226][227] The spatial arrangement of garages constructed (e.g. the close by Cvjetni Centar and Tuškanac garages) has caused low occupancy at some of the garages while other parts of the neighbourhood lack adequate parking facilities.[46] Several garages are located at the fringes of the central pedestrian zone; despite their original intent to alleviate congestion, they themselves cause traffic jams and increase traffic in the city core.[90][228][9]

In late 2017, the city started works to remove trees surrounding the Meštrović Pavilion in the middle of the Square of the Victims of Fascism, prompting protests against the city administration led by a citizens' initiative named Vratite magnoliju ("Bring Back the Magnolia") after several old magnolias among many trees and bushes that the city intended to cut down, reducing the greenery around the Pavilion to a grass cover.[229][230][231] Bandić and another city official were prosecuted for damaging cultural heritage and other accusations regarding the square remodelling.[232] The trees, some of which were protected heritage and fixtures of Zagreb pop culture,[233] were removed while the process was ongoing by the city authorities; some of the trees were reportedly "diseased",[234] and some "grew too much",[233] while the project documentation was contradictory on the others.[235][236] The makeover also included removing Brač limestone steps and replacing them with concrete.[230] At the end of the process, Bandić was found not guilty, and subsequently taunted protestors by cutting grass on the square while dressed in the uniform of Zrinjevac, the city's park maintenance company, which caused them to demand his resignation.[237][238] The city administration also removed benches and placed signs forbidding walking on the green surfaces. While a few academics supported the square makeover, most were opposed, including architectural, landscaping and art history societies.[239] The makeover polarised the public, leading to "guerrilla" tree planting actions suppressed by the police, the result was that the citizens much less often frequented or stopped at the square.[240][241][242] The renewed square's "cold monumentality" has been compared to the architecture of totalitarian and fascist Independent State of Croatia, which had cleared part of the square in 1941–42 while converting the pavilion to a mosque.[243][244]

In 2013, the city changed the zoning of the sole park in Savica neighbourhood in order to accommodate a plan to build a church in the park. Protests, which were ongoing by 2016, intensified in 2017, the election year, by which point Savica residents and activists held round-the-clock sit-ins to prevent construction crews from entering the park.[245] A 2016 survey found that the vast majority of Savica residents were opposed to the project, including 72 percent of Catholic residents.[246] Two weeks before the elections, Bandić promised that the project would be stopped and called for an end to protests.[247][24] The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning refused to issue a location permit for building the church, and it appeared that the project, which would have placed the church in the most wooded area of the park, was cancelled.[248] Nevertheless, the project was renewed in 2018 after Bandić secured another term and began supporting the project. In 2019–20, while Bandić was attempting to pass a new general urban master plan, the church project was expanded to incorporate a shrine dedicated to Blessed Alojzije Stepinac and plans for pilgrim tourism which would have caused the removal of the entire park.[249] The new master plan failed in the city assembly, and several months later city gave the park a name; there were no further attempts to build in the park as of Bandić's death.[250][251] The success of the Savica park protests was seen as a potential end to unchallenged decision making by Bandić and the city government.[24]

City finances edit

 
Magnolia trees in front of Meštrović Pavilion, 2009.

Bandić's mayoralty saw Zagreb's city budget increase from 3.8 billion Croatian kuna in 1998[252] to 13.7 billion kuna in 2021.[253] During his mayoralty, Bandić controlled the allocation of around 177 billion kuna (€24 billion) in budgets.[254]

On 1 January 2007, Bandić founded the Zagreb Holding, placing city companies under a single corporate umbrella, of which he maintained full control as the sole board member until a 2009 intervention by the Ministry of Public Administration.[255][256][257][258] The holding took up some of the city's responsibilities, such as building schools and kindergartens, and sold and leased back city's property, such as trams, to finance projects.[256][259] In 2007, the company issued €300 million in bonds on the London Stock Exchange, purportedly to finance improvements to water, sewerage and gas network.[54] The sewerage network in particular was severely outdated. Central Zagreb depends on an 1892 combined sewer system which would later disastrously fail in the 2020 flash flood.[260] Little of the money was spent on the intended purpose, being re-routed into patching up the city budget, real estate acquisition, and Sopnica–Jelkovec construction, although Bandić had vouched this would not happen when the bonds were issued.[54] A 2013 paper called for restructuring Zagreb Holding, finding that the company was exposed to high foreign exchange risk and relied on new loans to pay off existing debts. In 2011, Zagreb Holding raised 1 billion kuna in short-term loans and used it to pay off debts.[261] When the London bonds matured in 2016, Zagreb Holding was unable to make the payments and raised the funds by issuing a new series of bonds in the Croatian bond market. Reportedly, Holding leaders planned to refinance already in 2007.[54][262] In 2017, Zagreb Fair and long-time loss-leader Zagrebački električni tramvaj (ZET) were separated from Zagreb Holding.[263] ZET, the public transport company, operated at a loss for a long time due to Bandić's decision to allow free travel for most Zagreb citizens, and was criticised for practices such as giving a commission to drivers selling tickets.[264][265][266][267] In the course of the separation, Zagreb Holding controversially retained part of ZET's assets, including a workers' holiday resort, which it sold in 2020, prompting a protest by the workers.[268][269]

Research carried out by Corruption Research Center Budapest (CRCB) into City of Zagreb and Zagreb Holding found the city to be the worst among European capitals in corruption risks and public tender competition.[270] In the 2011–2016 period, more than a third of the contracts awarded by the two entities had only one bidder, covering billions of Croatian kunas. CRCB estimated that the social loss to the entities due to inefficient pricing over this period was 2.70 billion kuna. Zagreb Holding's tenders were the most inefficient in 2013, while City of Zagreb's were in 2016, both years close to local elections.[271] Using Benford's law, CRCB found high price distortions compared to true market value of services rendered, especially in no-competition tenders and those issued by Zagreb Holding.[272] The tenders were mainly won by companies with high presence in the public procurement market and low international export turnover.[273] The city also poorly utilised EU funding, below average for both Croatia and comparable European capitals.[274] While Vodoopskrba i odvodnja, Zagreb Holding's water management company, announced it would spend 1.4 billion kuna (€200 million) from EU funds in 2014, it only received 4.5 million kuna (€600,000).[53]

In 2014, Bandić and a number of high-ranking Zagreb Holding and city officials were arrested, one of them while attempting to flee Croatia. The case was dubbed Agram affair by the press. The mayor was charged with evading tax on political donations, illegal preferential treatment of the CIOS refuse management company, as well as trading city-owned land below market price. Bandić was bailed out a month later. His bail, set at a record 15 million kuna (€2 million) was paid by the same law firm which was retained by the city; Bandić was later fined 30,000 kuna for this conflict of interest. Bandić was returned to jail in 2015 after attempting to influence a witness, but was released after a month.[275][276][277] Bandić did not resign from his post; instead, the city was led by acting mayor and former Bandić's deputy Sandra Švaljek between Bandić's first and second arrest. The latter coincided with Bandić's successful appeal to the legal ban from exercising his office. Švaljek continued leading the city for a short period until Bandić rescinded her authorisation from jail, and gave it to Vesna Kusin. Soon after his release, Bandić returned to the mayor's post.[278][279][280] At the time of Bandić's death, he was being tried in several court cases, including the case of the aforementioned Agram affair, the "stands affair" involving alleged preferential treatment of politician Željka Markić's anti-abortion rally, a case involving the Zagreb wastewater treatment plant, and others.[281][276] Several high-ranking officials in Bandić's administration were convicted of illegally altering the general urban master plan, and received suspended prison sentences.[282][283]

Undeveloped properties edit

 
Gredelj factory grounds in 2016

During Bandić's mayoralty, the city acquired several brownfield properties which proved impossible to sell or develop. In April 2004, then-mayor Vlasta Pavić criticized Bandić for buying land formerly owned by the Zagrepčanka meat packing plant, as the city was unable to register itself as the owner.[284] The controversy was dubbed "the Zagrepčanka case" by the newspapers.[284][285] Pavić distanced herself from Bandić, and Bandić was heard cursing her during a session of the Assembly.[284][285] Backed by SDP members in the City Assembly, Bandić launched a newspaper advertisement in support of his decision to buy the lot. Charges were brought against Bandić and others involved over the advertisement and "frequent and inadmissible attacks on [...] the court".[286] Three years later, Bandić was acquitted; the City of Zagreb was awarded ownership of the Zagrepčanka lot in a court judgment. Bandić promised a new business district in the Zagrepčanka location.[287] However, in 2021, the city was still hoping to balance the budget by selling the undeveloped lot.[288]

A number of similarly derelict former factories exist in the streets around the Main Railway Station.[37] Among a number of similar cases was that of former Janko Gredelj railway factory at the Main Railway Station. Zagreb Holding bought the closed factory from Gredelj in 2006 for 660 million kuna, a sum raised by issuing bonds. Years later, Bandić announced a plan to have the city buy the grounds from Zagreb Holding, in order to help Zagreb Holding pay off its debts. In 2006, most of the old factory was taken off the cultural heritage register while Bandić announced plans for a "new city centre". No construction has been done on Gredelj grounds, which remain occupied by decaying unmaintained buildings except for a small city-operated parking lot opened in 2018.[2][288][289][290][291] Paromlin is another former factory complex and protected industry heritage in city ownership, located adjacent to Gredelj and the railway station. A 2006 deal to preserve the complex and use it to house a Marriott Hotel and a 2012 project to house the Main City Library both failed. In 2011, a part of the complex was razed and turned into a public parking lot. Part of Paromlin collapsed in 2013, while a different part was illegally demolished in 2014. Of the 2013 collapse, Bandić said that "if [he] had been born earlier, [he] would have created a [...] renovation project in time."[292][293][294][295][296]

In 2007, Zagreb purchased the Potsdam Tin Theatre (German: Blechbüchse, Croatian: Potsdamsko limeno kazalište).[297][298] The prefabricated theatre was bought for €80,000 and 18 million kuna (€2.4 million) was spent transporting it to the city. Despite a proposal to place it in Središće, New Zagreb, the city decided to erect the theatre at the district's outskirts in Sloboština. The Sloboština lot was bought from a private company in exchange for a lot in Trešnjevka and 12 million kuna (€1.6 million). The theatre was never assembled, and by 2015, many of its parts had been reportedly stolen.[299][300][301]

Environment edit

In the mid-2010s, during the fourteen-year project of widening Radnička Road, part of the main wastewater canal (previously an open sewer) was covered and sewerage was built in Kozari Putevi, one of a number of illegally built neighbourhoods in the Žitnjak area.[302][303][304] In the 2000s, Bandić had based his campaign in Žitnjak informal settlements.

One of Bandić's perennial promises was closing the Jakuševec landfill, an ecological hazard to the city which was at times closed due to strikes, suffered from plastic waste fires, and which was at one time operated without a licence.[305][306][307][308] After a strike by local residents, Bandić exempted them from an ordinance forbidding raising livestock in the city.[309][310] The Jakuševec hazard was not solved by the end of Bandić's mayoralty.[311] In the late 2010s, the city was beset by numerous fires, some allegedly intentionally started, at the private CIOS landfill, implicated in the Agram affair.[312][313][314]

In 2018, Bandić presented a project which would mandate an allegedly newly invented form of HHO cleaning of car engines for all vehicles in Zagreb at cost to owners, in order to reduce their carbon footprint. Proof of the project's usefulness did not surface and the project was eventually pulled after criticism from engineering experts.[315][316][317]

Political street renaming and monuments edit

In the early 1990s, the new post-Communist government carried out a series of street renames, returning many pre-1941 street names, but also giving some streets new names.[318] The most controversial rename was that of the Square of the Victims of Fascism, which was named Croatian Nobles Square. After SDP came to power in 2000, the square's pre-1990 name was returned, while the new name was transferred to the nearby Stock Market Square.[319] Though the wave of renames almost completely subsided after 1995,[320] Bandić administration also took a leading role in a few high-profile cases of street renaming. In 2008 he opposed protests calling for renaming Marshal Tito Square, named after Yugoslavia's long-time Communist leader Josip Broz Tito, to its erstwhile name Theatre Square, saying that there were "no historical reasons to change [its] name".[321] Nevertheless, in 2017 he proposed a successful motion to change its name to Republic of Croatia Square.[322][323] Branko Lustig, a Croatian Jewish film producer and member of Bandić's party, was removed from his seat in Zagreb Assembly by Bandić after he refused to support the motion.[323]

In 2006, there was a movement to name a square after the first president of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman. Right-wing supporters of Tuđman proposed renaming various major squares after Tuđman, while left-wing opponents proposed the long meadow in the wide central reservation of Croatian Fraternal Union Street. Bandić, who multiple times stated that Tuđman would get the "most beautiful square in Zagreb because he deserves it",[324] ultimately gave the president the hitherto unnamed park behind Rudolf barracks,[325] a move criticised by the right.[326][327] The park was initially intended to be remodelled into an urban square with a water park and pavilion with shops and restaurants, creating per Bandić, "the second heart of the city".[324][327] Bandić later fielded a proposal to build a road interchange there in order to speed up car traffic in the city centre.[147] The projects were not carried out. In 2015, after forming a coalition with HDZ, Bandić ardently supported their plan to rename Zagreb Airport after Tuđman.[328] Tuđman's bust was eventually erected on the median of CFU Street, where Bandić had in 2012 placed a number of controversial fountains.[329][330][331]

Another 2006 controversy erupted over the 150th anniversary of the birth of scientist Nikola Tesla, which Bandić celebrated by "erecting"[332] Ivan Meštrović's statue of Tesla, which was relocated from its original position at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) to Tesla Street in Donji grad. Various institutions, including RBI, the Academy of Fine Arts, and Ivan Meštrović Museum, stated that the decision went against the wishes of Meštrović. The sculptor had strongly intended that the sculpture be shown paired with a statue of Bošković at the RBI, going as far as to destroy the moulds to prevent replication of the statues. The return of the statue was the subject of an unsuccessful petition in 2013.[333][334][332]

2020 edit

 
Damaged building in the city centre at the mercy of weather two years after the 2020 Zagreb earthquake

In late 2019, Zagreb was beset by protests by the Zagreb Calls You initiative, Siget, Green Action, and Right to the City calling for Bandić's resignation and arrest over his alleged large-scale frauds and corruption.[335][336][337][338] The protests were motivated by the expectation that Bandić would pass a new general urban master plan accommodating the "Zagreb Manhattan" project which would have involved construction on a large amounts of green spaces and sports grounds, demolition of Zagreb Fair and Zagreb Hippodrome and, according to Bandić, construction of a 200-storey skyscraper in New Zagreb.[339][340][341] "Zagreb Manhattan" and other changes in the plan proved controversial, attracting more than 30,000 complaints from the public, which were all rejected by the city authorities. The plan eventually failed after Bandić and HDZ could not come to an agreement about amendments to the plan.[342][251] Defeat of HDZ's incumbent Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović in the 2019–20 Croatian presidential election, for which the backing of scandal-ridden Bandić was blamed, contributed to the falling out between Bandić and HDZ.[343][344][345] In early 2020, protests against Bandić were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic,[346][347] which reached Zagreb on 25 February 2020.[348] In March 2020, Bandić was criticised for making jokes about the lack of soap in Zagreb schools.[349]

In the early hours of 22 March 2020, the day the coronavirus quarantine started, Zagreb was struck by a ML 5.5 earthquake. Despite its relatively low magnitude, the shallow focus of the earthquake and the poor state of Zagreb building stock contributed to widespread damage, even affecting some new buildings such as the Museum of Contemporary Art and Centar Cvjetni.[350][351][352] Most of the hospitals, located in old buildings in the vulnerable northern part of the city, suffered damage and had to be evacuated.[353] The damage was later estimated at €11.6 billion.[354] In the early days of recovery, Bandić appointed himself head of civil protection in Zagreb and began holding daily press conferences on the subjects of earthquake and COVID-19.[355] Bandić received criticism for his remark that the damages occurred because "the residents did not invest in their property"[356] the announcement that property owners would be left to finance their own repairs,[356] and assigning the blame for city centre damages to homeowners who did not take the city up on a façade renovation program, which in fact did not include seismic retrofitting or any other earthquake damage prevention work.[357][358][359] A state inquiry found that none of the contracts aforementioned renovation projects had been closed, and that the emergency disaster fund had been spent on various associations, religious community projects and festivities.[360] In April, protests against soon continued in the form of cacerolazo,[361] while Bandić was accused by the Ministry of Construction of obstructing the recovery efforts, including refusing to house residents made homeless by the earthquake in empty and squatted social housing.[362]

Bandić soon backtracked on his opposition to financing rebuilding[363] and remained optimistic in his statements about recovery from the earthquake.[364][365] However, reconstruction had not yet begun by the time of Bandić's death,[366][367][368] and many people were still living in severely damaged buildings months later.[369][370] In Donji grad, cultural heritage regulations created additional red tape for affected citizens. The authorities estimated that 20,000 people, or more than half of residents of Donji grad had moved out of their homes by the middle of April,[371][372] and scaffolding protecting pedestrians from falling masonry began to be erected only in 2021.[373] Bandić was criticised for spending millions on projects such as Snow Queen Trophy and decorative lighting while reducing allocation of funds for repairs of schools and other public buildings, and spending city money on uncoordinated duplication of residents' own renovation efforts.[374][375][376] The city was also affected by a flash flood in July where citizens forced open an unstaffed dam to drain the city,[377] and a stronger earthquake in nearby Petrinja area in December which, per Bandić's estimate, caused 20 times less damage to Zagreb than the March earthquake.[378] The city did not release precise information on the extent of damages in Zagreb from the flood and the Petrinja earthquake, though Bandić pledged financial assistance to earthquake victims in Petrinja,[379] where the City of Zagreb had earlier built school infrastructure while Petrinja's mayor was a member of BM365.[380][381] One of the people involved in protests against Bandić was filmmaker Dario Juričan, who legally changed his name to Milan Bandić and ran in the 2019–20 presidential election as the self-proclaimed "evangelist of corruption",[382] coming in fifth with 4.61% of the vote.[383] In 2020, he created a documentary film, Kumek, about Bandić's scandals.[384]

Personal life and education edit

Bandić was born on 22 November 1955 in Donji Mamići, Grude, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia to Jozo Bandić and Ankica Tomić. He was a middle child, having an older brother Drago and younger sister Tonka.[257] In 1974, he went to Zagreb, where he majored in defence and protection at the University of Zagreb.[385] Students completing this major, which was in Zagreb taught at the Faculty of Political Science, were qualified to teach the subjects of defence and protection, foundations of Marxism, and theory and practice of socialism to high school students. As part of the class involved practical instruction in the Yugoslav People's Army, the students were exempted from mandatory military service; distinguished students were also granted the status of officer in the reserve force.[386][387] Bandić states that, after finishing schooling, he served in the army,[388] which some newspapers interpreted as mandatory military service.[389]

After finishing college, Bandić stayed in Zagreb where he married his wife Vesna, with whom he had a daughter, Anamarija.[257] In 1996, Bandić divorced his wife, citing "disagreements". A week later, his wife took advantage of a programme allowing highly discounted purchase of social apartments for people without a place to live, in order to purchase a small house in Donji grad for 35,760 kuna (€4,800), claiming she had lived there since 1975. Her request was approved by Bandić in his official capacity. Bandić remained living together with his wife in an apartment in Stara Peščenica, and in 2003, they remarried. In 2005, Bandić dismissed accusations of trying to profit from the social programme, saying: "If I had wanted to profit, I would have bought the [house] and sold it, and we would not be still paying it off today.[1] The house was in derelict condition and had collapsed by 2014, when the Bandićs sold it to Adris grupa shareholder and billionaire Ante Vlahović for €150,000, who proceeded to build a controversial apartment building occupying its place and the adjoining lots.[390][391]

In 2001, he illegally built a house in Slavagora near Samobor.[59] Bandić and his family also owned and/or lived in several flats which he did not report in his asset declaration.[392][393][394][395]

Bandić owned three horses, two of which were kept at the Zagreb Hippodrome.[43] He also had two golden retrievers, Bil and Rudi, which he often walked during his work hours.[396][397]

Political career edit

 
Bandić's billboard during his 2009–10 presidential campaign

In socialist Yugoslavia, Bandić joined Croatia's communist party, the League of Communists of Croatia (LCC). In 1983, he found a job in his field in LCC's Municipal Committee of Peščenica municipality of Zagreb as an expert political worker responsible for defence and protection. After the collapse of SFR Yugoslavia, which started the transition to capitalism, LCC rebranded itself as the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). Bandić remained with the new party. In 1993 he became the secretary of SDP's Zagreb Committee, in 1995 he joined the Zagreb Assembly, and in 1997 he became the committee's president. In 2000, Bandić bought off two HDZ councilmen, finding the necessary majority to call snap elections.[257]

Bandić was ultimately elected mayor six times, in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2017. All the elections had a low turnout, never exceeding 50 percent.[398][399] Bandić won with as little as 48,000 votes—in the 2000 election which had 689,000 eligible voters. His strongest show of support was 170,000 votes in the 2013 election against Ranko Ostojić, the candidate of Bandić's erstwhile party, SDP.

Bandić's politics were populist in nature: he split with the mayors of the 1990s by "fighting for the rights of little people",[400] campaigning in the early 2000s in the poor neighbourhoods of Peščenica; an iconic poster portrays Bandić walking through mud in an unpaved street in Kozari Putevi.[401][402] Bandić announced various populist measures, such as paying an extra salary to parents of three or more children, free public transport, and 100 kuna (€13) Easter bonuses for retirees, though not all of these measures were ever carried out whole or in part.[402][267][403] Some measures were reversed in face of financial issues; e.g. Bandić went from offering free rides to everyone in certain conditions in 2008, to vying for massive bus fare hikes in 2010, stating that it was "high time for a fair distribution of subsidies",[265] after ZET, the public transport company, registered a large deficit.[267][265][266]

In 2002, Bandić caused a political scandal by fleeing the scene of a car accident while under the influence of alcohol. Bandić unsuccessfully attempted to bribe and threatened the police officer who caught him.[404] The police officer was fired for leaking a copy of the police report. This judgment was later overturned by a court and he was reinstated in the police force.[405] The SDP leadership relieved Bandić of his mayoral duties and the Assembly voted in Vlasta Pavić as the new mayor,[406] while Bandić was kept on as deputy mayor,[407] Though initially supporting Bandić's projects[408] despite opposition councilmembers protests that Bandić would use Pavić as a puppet mayor,[400] Pavić soon expressed the same opinion herself, causing a falling out in the SDP ranks. Despite SDP president Ivica Račan siding with Pavić,[409] Bandić would behind the scenes retain much of his power over the city.[400] In 2003, Bandić was reportedly attempting to force snap elections by attacking SDP's coalition partners and forming new alliances in the Zagreb Assembly.[410] In 2004, he caused a controversy by publicly cursing out Pavić in the assembly,[411] for which she demanded an apology.[412] Eventually, she gave in and agreed not to run in the 2005 elections.[413] SDP would nominate Bandić as their mayoral candidate, and he won with 103,000 votes.

Returning to the mayoral position, Bandić consolidated his power, placing city companies in a holding company over which he had absolute control, appointing himself the sole board member (see § City finances).[257] Controversies continued in 2005, when a Novi list journalist alleged that Bandić said "Work liberates, the Nazis weren't totally dumb". The following day, Bandić threatened to sue the journalist and the newspaper; he claimed he said "Marxists", not "Nazis".[414] In January 2006, Bandić publicly threatened a journalist working for Večernji list because the journalist asked Bandić about an offer from a Czech company; Bandić then replied aggressively, cursing and threatening the journalist.[415] Afterwards, he claimed he had simply spoken to the journalist in a loud voice.[415] Following Račan's illness and death, Bandić unsuccessfully ran for the position at the 2007 leadership election,[416] losing to Zoran Milanović.[417] Bandić reportedly established himself as the leader of the opposition within the party against Milanović, who was alleged to have wanted Bandić out of the mayoral office.[418][419] Both Milanović and Bandić later denied that there were major disagreements and a discord in the SDP.[420] In 2008, a letter signed by 26 public figures of the Croatian Left, including academic Dražen Lalić, criticized the policies of the SDP, particularly Bandić's tenure as mayor and corruption allegations, and called out Milanović for "betraying social democracy". Milanović and the SDP leadership refuted the letter and expressed their support for Bandić.[421][422]

Bandić ran for president in the 2009–10 elections.[423] As he had done this without the authorisation of his party, who had nominated Ivo Josipović, he was expelled from SDP and lost his position as leader of the party's Zagreb branch.[424] In the first round of the election, on 27 December 2009, Bandić received 14.83 percent of the vote, placing him in second place after Josipović with 32.70 percent.[425] On 10 January he lost the second round with 39.74 percent of the vote.[426] In Zagreb, Bandić lost both rounds of the election, receiving support only in a handful of city neighbourhoods.[427][428] A year before his presidential campaign, it came to light that a record-breaking 251 criminal complaints had been filed against Bandić, but the State Attorney's Office had neglected to act on any of them.[429]

In 2014, Bandić's mayoralty was temporarily interrupted when he was arrested due to the Agram affair. However, he did not resign, and returned to his position after his second release from jail. As of Bandić's death, Agram and other court cases were still ongoing. See § City finances.

After running as independent for several years following his expulsion from SDP, in 2015 Bandić founded a political party, Milan Bandić 365 – Labour and Solidarity Party, which was soon renamed Bandić Milan 365 – Labour and Solidarity Party. The party found little support from voters. Its best show was two seats won in the 2015 election, which were followed with a single seat in 2016. In the 2020 election, BM365 won around 9,000 votes and was left without representation in the parliament. Nevertheless, Bandić formed numerous alliances in the parliament, and was credited with ensuring the victory of HDZ, with whom he formed a coalition in the 2015 elections.[430] Bandić once made a remark about the unsteady nature of these alliances, where he called the MPs in his alliance "play chips",[381][431] a term which caught on in the news.[432] He treated his allies, among them numerous minority representatives, with projects and donations funded by Zagreb city budget.[433]

Bandić's city administration and Zagreb Holding would frequently contract companies owned by Bandić's associates, such as Bandić's godfather Milan Penava's company Tigra, which gained media attention due to the conflict of interest involved, but also very high costs charged to the city.[434][435] The city administration would keep contracting construction companies which did work of poor quality that resulted in scandals, such as the Vrbani III companies, and Tehnika which had to redo twice its 2012 repaving of Flower Square.[435][436] During the Agram affair case, USKOK played back secret recording of Bandić and city officials where Bandić apparently created a confrontation to impel the officials to hire one of his relatives; Bandić did not deny the veracity of the tape.[437][438] Bandić's administration was fraught with accusations of nepotism, extending to the family of Bandić's deputy and acting successor Jelena Pavičić Vukičević.[439][440] Pavičić Vukičević herself was appointed head of a city department in controversial circumstances soon after her removal from the Croatian parliament, on which Bandić commented that he would not let her "end up in the streets".[440]

In early 2020, after HDZ's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović lost the election for her second term, there was a cooling in the relations between Bandić and the HDZ government, who killed his plan for a 200-storey skyscraper and criticised his handling of the 2020 calamities (see § 2020). In May 2020, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković publicly doubted Bandić's ability to pass the 2021 election threshold. In return, Bandić mocked the accusations that his notoriety brought down Grabar-Kitarović.[345]

Health and death edit

On 3 July 2003, Bandić suffered a serious stroke. After a session of the Zagreb Assembly, he requested medical assistance, stating that he had begun to feel ill during the session. He was hospitalised for a few weeks, then went to Krapinske Toplice to recover, and returned to his duties in September.[441][442] In 2018, he had a surgery to insert a coronary stent. In June 2020 he was again hospitalised due to suspicion of another stroke, following an apparent dizzy spell in front of the cameras where he needed help to remain upright.[442][443][444] In August 2020 he also underwent vocal cord surgery, which was unable to resolve speech problems which troubled him for the remainder of his life.[445][442]

Bandić died, allegedly from a heart attack at the Sveti Duh Clinical Hospital in Zagreb on 28 February 2021, aged 65.[446] He was the longest serving mayor of Zagreb at the time of his death.[447] He was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery three days later, on 3 March. The funeral was attended by senior state officials, including Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković, and ministers Tomo Medved and Gordan Grlić-Radman. Acting mayor Jelena Pavičić Vukičević, and Ljubo Jurčić, former Minister of Economy in Račan's second cabinet, addressed the funeral ceremony.[448][449] Serbian Patriarch Porfirije was expected among the speakers, but was unable to attend the funeral due to self-isolation after being in contact with a COVID-positive person.[450] His funeral was attended by more than a thousand people in total, thus violating quarantine rules that state that a maximum of 25 people can attend a funeral.[451]

On 22 March, the State's Attorney Office began an inquiry into the circumstances of Bandić's death.[452] As of May 2021, the results of Bandić's autopsy had not yet been published.

Honours and awards edit

In 2007, Bandić joined the Brethren of the Croatian Dragon as the Dragon of Stone Gate.[453]

In 2009, Bandić was made honorary citizen of Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina,[454] while in 2018 received the Order of Friendship from Vladimir Putin.[455]

A 2019 attempt to bestow an honorary doctorate upon Bandić by University of Zagreb was stopped after protests and motions of opposition by councils of several faculties of the university, which included Bandić's alma mater, Faculty of Political Sciences.[456][457][458][385][459]

See also edit

 
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milan, bandić, november, 1955, february, 2021, croatian, politician, longest, serving, mayor, zagreb, capital, croatia, bandić, mayor, almost, continuously, from, 2000, 2021, except, during, time, between, resignation, 2002, 2005, election, also, suspended, fr. Milan Bandic 22 November 1955 28 February 2021 was a Croatian politician and the longest serving mayor of Zagreb the capital of Croatia Bandic was mayor almost continuously from 2000 to 2021 except during the time between his resignation in 2002 and the 2005 election He was also suspended from exercising his powers and duties for several months after his 2014 arrest over a corruption scandal Out of Bandic s multifaceted engagement in politics the most noted part was his mayoralty of Zagreb which followed the Croatian Democratic Union s HDZ first post socialist period of government 1990 2000 and exacerbated many existing transitional problems in the city Milan BandicBandic in 201850th and 52nd Mayor of ZagrebIn office 14 June 2005 28 February 2021Powers and duties suspended 21 November 2014 9 March 2015Preceded byVlasta PavicSucceeded byJelena Pavicic Vukicevic Acting Tomislav TomasevicIn office 2 June 2000 1 March 2002Preceded byMarina Matulovic DropulicSucceeded byVlasta PavicDeputy Mayor of Zagrebfor Social ServicesIn office 4 April 2002 14 June 2005Serving with Stipe TojcicMayorVlasta PavicPreceded byMorana Palikovic GrudenVlasta PavicSucceeded byIvo JelusicLjiljana Kuhta JelicicPresident of the Bandic Milan 365 Labour and Solidarity PartyIn office 28 March 2015 28 February 2021Preceded byPosition establishedSucceeded byJelena Pavicic Vukicevic Acting Slavko KojicPersonal detailsBorn 1955 11 22 22 November 1955Grude PR Bosnia and Herzegovina FPR YugoslaviaDied28 February 2021 2021 02 28 aged 65 Zagreb CroatiaPolitical partySKH 1980 1990 SDP 1990 2009 BM 365 2015 2021 SpousesVesna Bandic m 1981 div 1996 wbr m 2003 wbr 1 ParentsJozo BandicBlagica TomicAlma materUniversity of ZagrebOccupationPoliticianProfessionTeacher Born in the Herzegovinian town of Grude Bandic moved to Zagreb to study to become a teacher of Marxism and Defence and Protection at the University of Zagreb Starting in the early 1980s he rose through the ranks of the League of Communists of Croatia and its post 1990 successor the Social Democratic Party SDP becoming a city councillor in 1995 and president of the SDP s Zagreb branch in 1997 Following the 1995 97 Zagreb crisis he led the opposition against the imposed HDZ administration led by Mayor Marina Matulovic Dropulic Forcing snap elections in 2000 following the fall of the national HDZ government Bandic ran for mayor with the SDP and won a plurality with 20 of the vote He would go on to serve five more terms In 2009 he was expelled from the SDP for running for Croatian president in the 2009 10 election where he ran against and lost the second round to the SDP s chosen candidate Ivo Josipovic In 2015 he formed a new party Bandic Milan 365 Labour and Solidarity Party and entered into a coalition with the HDZ His mayoralty was fraught with scandals and interrupted twice First time was from 2002 to 2005 when he was caught fleeing the scene of an accident he caused while drunk driving and threatening the police officer who caught him he resigned and was kept on as deputy mayor for social services under Acting Mayor Vlasta Pavic The second time was in 2014 15 due to prosecution in the Agram affair which was still ongoing at the time of his death Bandic remained mayor throughout the events but was temporarily forbidden from exercising his mayoral duties and powers and appointed Sandra Svaljek and later Vesna Kusin as acting mayors before fully assuming his duties Some of the scandals led to convictions of high ranking city officials but Bandic himself was never convicted of a felony though he was fined for conflicts of interest Bandic ruled the city in a direct and highly centralised manner devolving few to no powers to elected officials beneath him and maintaining much control over the city during the periods when he was not in office His politics was populist primarily seeking support from the poor while trying to appeal to the rest of the citizens by announcing numerous capital infrastructure projects A few projects were realised in the mid 2000s such as Lake Bundek renovation construction of Arena Zagreb and Zagreb Avenue widening as well as the long awaited late 2010s construction of an underpass under Remetinec Roundabout Many more were repeatedly announced but never completed e g reconstruction of the Sljeme cable car a spa in Blato completing the long awaited Blato University Hospital a congress centre and reconstructing the Maksimir Stadium 2 3 4 Public transport was not improved beyond renewing the tram rolling stock Bandic s era saw an unprecedented 20 years go by without the construction of new tram lines despite his many announcements of tram network expansions Bandic died of an alleged heart attack in early 2021 two months before the regular local elections having held office for 17 years and 165 days He was succeeded in his roles of mayor and BM 365 president by his deputy now acting mayor Jelena Pavicic Vukicevic His legacy remained controversial due to numerous nepotism and clientelism scandals which involved many of his associates including his successor Pavicic Vukicevic budget deficit and soon to mature bonds and the slow and expensive recovery from the heavily damaging 2020 earthquakes During his mayoralty Bandic was bestowed with several honours including honorary citizenship of Srebrenica Bosnia and Herzegovina and membership in the Brethren of the Croatian Dragon Contents 1 Mayor of Zagreb 1 1 Flower Square affair 1 2 Zagreb Housing Development Model 1 3 Transport infrastructure 1 3 1 Public transport 1 3 2 Parking garages and square remodelling 1 4 City finances 1 5 Undeveloped properties 1 6 Environment 1 7 Political street renaming and monuments 1 8 2020 2 Personal life and education 3 Political career 4 Health and death 5 Honours and awards 6 See also 7 Footnotes 8 ReferencesMayor of Zagreb editContinuing his predecessor Croatian Democratic Union HDZ government s 1990s pattern of deregulation and abandonment of urban planning 5 6 7 8 Bandic s mayoralty was characterised by unsustainable projects 9 creating unplanned investment driven sprawl and causing overbuilding 10 11 The inconsistency and non specificity of the general urban master plans of 2003 and 2007 allowed the private sector to take over the role of urban planning from professionals 12 13 14 The master plan was frequently altered to accord with private investors interests 15 16 17 while citizens and urban planners had minimal participation in the projects 18 14 As a consequence it failed to achieve its objections and urban renewal in Zagreb was characteristic of the so called era of the bulldozer a discarded approach involving construction of unsustainable luxury housing on the site of former undesirable neighbourhoods and areas 19 20 The city continued an ongoing trend of losing vegetation replacing a significant fraction of its green spaces with pavement and buildings 21 22 Bandic s administration was highly centralised Bandic was directly involved in all matters that concerned running the city The 1999 city statute created two levels of self government 17 arbitrarily drawn city districts which were divided into local committees In practice district councils were bogged down in bureaucracy and had no effect beyond enacting plans for small community actions while forming of local committees only began in 2008 During the Great Recession the city cut the funding for small community actions effectively stopping self governmental activity 23 24 Bandic s mayoralty reduced citizen participation to a formality using manipulation and confrontation to marginalise citizens who disagreed with their initiatives Bandic often confronted disagreeing citizens and participated in publicity stunts 25 26 27 nbsp Adris grupa building looms over Neoclassical architecture of Primorska Street nbsp HOTO Tower interrupts the sidewalk on Savska Road a major road in central Zagreb The master plan removed a long standing moratorium on construction of buildings over nine storeys in height 28 Together with lack of precision in detailed spatial plans 29 which were in fact abrogated for many city project areas in the 2006 plan 30 this state of affairs allowed new structures to arbitrarily affect the city s skyline 29 High rise office towers in urban areas and dense housing projects in previously suburban areas such as Laniste and Borovje 31 32 were built without improvements to infrastructure and corresponding amenities causing traffic jams and overburdening of schools hospitals and other amenities 33 34 29 35 New apartment buildings lagged behind late Communist era housing in construction standards and amenities 36 In one case poor construction standards at a building site led to the creation of a sinkhole which swallowed up one whole side of Kupska Street in Trnje 37 38 39 Much of the prime development space was allocated to commercial developments numerous shopping malls in particular while new residential developments were relegated to less attractive and poorly connected previously industrial areas 29 40 41 Among other cultural venues Bandic made efforts to resettle Zagreb Hippodrome Zagreb Fair and NK Lokomotiva s football stadium to clear space for real estate development 42 43 By 2006 Zagreb had over 30 shopping malls 44 Overbuilding and subsequent failure of shopping malls created abandoned lots in areas well supported by infrastructure 45 It also caused a loss of profitability and large scale closure of small shops and crafts in the city centre especially on Ilica Zagreb s historical high street 46 47 and created private land out of previously public sections of streets and squares particularly in the Donji grad pedestrian zone 48 Lack of interest and investment on the city s part enabled continued decay of old buildings in the city centre making them vulnerable to purchase and conversion into luxury apartments which attracted the rich and displaced existing middle class residents 49 50 51 The city centre also lost population as residents were beset by high traffic and noise pollution the city raised allowed noise limits to 95 dB during daytime and 90 dB at night far above Ministry of Health regulations 52 Bandic would repeatedly put focus on attractive perennial capital projects while failing to improve Zagreb s aging infrastructure in 2015 80 000 households lacked running water and sewerage connections Funds raised by Zagreb Holding bonds in 2007 for the purpose of improving infrastructure were almost in entirety spent on other projects including real estate acquisition 53 54 In the 1990s Zagreb was hit by a spate of illegal construction Informal settlements were created by refugees of Yugoslav Wars while better off land owners built or enlarged their homes without permits Illegal building due to property speculation was most prevalent in the Medvednica Foothills renamed Podsljeme in 1999 6 55 Construction in Podsljeme in particular has been characterised by so called urban villas urbane vile apartment buildings of up to twenty flats densely packed into formerly green areas and often lacking basic services and facilities 10 56 22 In 1998 the Croatian Democratic Union s Matulovic Dropulic administration legalised all illegal developments built up to that point with the clause that future illegal construction would be demolished 57 However the problem of illegal construction intensified after Bandic came to power expanding from the suburbs into the interiors of Donji grad city blocks 58 Bandic who himself constructed a house illegally 59 defended illegal construction throughout his mayoralty 60 supporting an early 2010s effort by the Kukuriku coalition government to legalise over 90 000 buildings in Zagreb 61 62 63 yet few buildings in destitute Kozari Putevi neighbourhood where Bandic had launched his career in 2000 had been legalised by 2013 64 Some of the legalised buildings ended up preventing the construction of long planned arterial roads in whose paths they were located 65 Flower Square affair edit nbsp Flower Square before the shopping mall was constructed Bandic established himself as the person in charge of all aspects of running Zagreb 66 becoming a spokesman for several controversial projects one of which was the construction of a shopping mall on a historic Donji grad square 67 In 2006 real estate developer Tomislav Horvatincic who had made use of Bandic s new urban master plan to build the 17 storey HOTO Tower in 2004 presented a plan for Life Style Center later to become Centar Cvjetni Flower Centre a 50 000 m2 540 000 sq ft mall with a 700 car underground parking garage in Zagreb s pedestrian zone on the Petar Preradovic Square popularly known as Flower Square Cvjetni trg 68 13 69 70 71 The project involved tearing down former home of Zagreb s most famous architect Hermann Bolle the birth house of poet Vladimir Vidric and the Cinema Zagreb 72 It was opposed by the NGOs Green Action and Right to the City as well as numerous public figures 73 The Serbian Orthodox Church also opposed the project laying claim to Cinema Zagreb which had been expropriated from the church by the post WWII Communist government 71 A petition to stop the project was run collecting over 54 000 signatures 68 74 After initially denying the existence of the shopping mall project 75 Bandic supported Horvatincic s efforts by modifying the general urban master plan 76 Horvatincic attracted controversy by calling the buildings rat holes 75 77 the invective was picked up by the Bandic administration 78 68 In one case in 2007 Bandic publicly cursed out the protesters singling out Right to the City leader Teodor Celakoski 79 Protests and lawsuits filed by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning delayed and reduced the scope of the project which at one point involved remodelling the entire city block but ultimately failed to stop it 73 80 in large part thanks to Bandic s involvement 81 Notably police cracked down on a protest in February 2010 opposing the conversion of part of Varsavska Street pedestrian zone to parking garage ramp arresting its leaders including Green Action president Tomislav Tomasevic and actress Ursa Raukar 82 83 The ramp was finished in 2011 completing the project 84 Further expansions of the shopping mall were prevented by a 2013 amendment to the general urban master plan 85 A related controversy arose temporarily in 2016 as Bandic administration allowed Horvatincic to place a bar patio in front of the entrance to the Flower Square s Serbian Orthodox Cathedral also hindering access to a public seating area Bandic withdrew the permit after public pressure 86 Other Bandic s projects at Flower Square included an unexecuted project for canopy and floor heating in the adjoining Bogoviceva and Petriceva Streets 87 and closing down Cinema Europa the home of Zagreb Film Festival despite public protests Bandic described the closure of the cinema as stealing Cinema Europa away from tycoon privatisation 88 89 Much of Flower Square today is covered by coffee bar patios and few flower stands remain 90 91 Zagreb Housing Development Model edit nbsp Urban villas sidewalks are rare in the narrow streets of densely built Medvednica Foothills At the end of the 1990s the Croatian government began a programme of social housing called Subsidised Housing Development Programme Program drustveno poticane stanogradnje POS creating private public partnerships to develop housing estates accessible to low income residents 92 One POS housing estate was built in Zagreb Spansko Oranice whose construction began during the mayoralty of Vlasta Pavic 93 Soon after Bandic s return to power in 2005 his administration bought out the government s POS projects in Zagreb Bandic terming the city led projects the Zagreb housing development model Zagrebacki model stanogradnje Despite Bandic prominently leading social housing projects for low income residents 94 few such projects eventually panned out 95 At the same time a glut of higher priced housing was created It was estimated that only half of all new flats built privately between 2001 and 2008 had been sold by 2013 96 According to urban planners City of Zagreb s private public partnership model was a complete failure 96 Despite the fact that POS estates residents were highly content with their new housing 97 in large part owing to the exceedingly low quality and availability of existing affordable housing and high demand for cheap flats 98 99 only three out of nine POS estates Spansko Oranice Sopnica Jelkovec and Vrbani III were built by 2015 95 while the construction in a fourth one Podbrezje finally began in 2016 100 but the plan was later amended and only a few buildings were constructed by 2021 101 102 103 2014 research showed that only 6 1 percent of Zagreb s residents lived in POS housing 104 a far lower share than in social housing projects of other European capitals 105 The new estates were also criticised for high flat prices rivalling those in a cheap gated community in Sveta Nedelja Zagreb County 106 107 The plan for Sopnica Jelkovec estate later renamed Novi Jelkovec was laid out in 2003 and amended several times 108 The location was set in the Sesvete industrial zone on the site of the former Sljeme pig factory whose grounds the city purchased in 1999 109 The project would create a new neighbourhood on a 39 5 hectare 98 acre area that was to be connected to the city by an extension of Vukovar Street and a new tram line with numerous amenities such as a library a kindergarten and a community swimming pool 98 109 Bandic associated himself publicly with the project after taking it over from the POS programme 94 The City of Zagreb invested 2 5 billion kuna 300 million into the project 109 whose construction began in 2006 In 2009 at the opening of the estate Bandic announced that we almost solved the housing problems of most of Zagreb s residents who could not afford a flat 110 In the next several years the estate attained a negative reputation as none of the promised facilities and traffic connections materialised 109 Many of the residents were assigned flats lacking basic amenities such as internet and phone service 111 Bus lines were added to the neighbourhood only in 2013 An additional problem was poor construction causing water leaks 109 Bandic took a leading role in the allocation of flats 94 where inhabitants of the same social status were largely accorded flats in the same buildings creating segregation and stunting social cohesion 112 109 113 Most of the problems were eventually remedied and the residents expressed satisfaction with the estate in a survey five years after its opening but it could not shake off its initial negative reputation 114 leading to significant vacancy rates years after it was constructed 109 115 In 2020 the remaining apartment were offered at reduced rent rates to the Zagreb earthquake victims 116 Construction of the Vrbani III estate started in 2006 after a 2004 design contest Located near Lake Jarun it was intended to be located between two new roads and a new park It was also intended to feature a new kindergarten and elementary school 117 The amenities were only partially completed in following years causing the residents to rely on nearby neighbourhoods for daily needs 118 119 120 The first flats were sold by 2006 when it came to light that some of the buildings were affected by severe tap water contamination with mineral oil concentrations over 500 times the legal allowance 121 122 Bandic was quick to dismiss the issue lining up with mayor s office employees to drink from an affected hydrant in a publicity stunt 123 and assuring citizens that the problem would be remedied within days 124 Affected residents ended up relying for years on bottled water for all their daily needs except flushing toilets until the problem was remedied 125 Zagrebgradnja Geoprojekt and Capital Ing the companies involved in the construction of Vrbani III were eventually found liable in court for the contamination 126 The city nevertheless continued to do business with the companies Several of Bandic s associates including Jelena Pavicic Vukicevic would obtain flats in a Geoprojekt project while Bandic himself reportedly had flats in Zagrebgradnja buildings 127 128 Zagrebgradnja and Geoprojekt were among the companies with whom Bandic conducted hundreds of unsupervised land swaps from at least 2005 until 2009 which would later be investigated by USKOK 129 While not labelled part of Zagreb Housing Development Model by Bandic Arena Zagreb and its surrounding neighbourhoods exhibited many related problems 130 112 At the onset of Great Recession Bandic pushed for the construction of Arena Zagreb one of several controversial handball stadiums which were opened in 2009 for the purposes of hosting the 2009 World Men s Handball Championship 131 The venue which would house sports matches and concerts drew controversy from the start having been built at a different location and according to a different plan from the one chosen at the public tender 112 In addition the costs required that it be occupied 250 days a year to break even The arena was constructed by a private public partnership which left the city paying for part of the arena s upkeep on top of renting it from the concessionaire who themselves had expressed doubts in the venue s cost effectiveness 131 132 133 134 The arena was paired with the adjacent Arena Centar shopping mall 135 and more construction followed in the form of Jaruscica housing estate and expansion of Laniste Years later the neighbourhood lacked basic amenities such as parks schools kindergartens and ambulatory care clinics using up capacities of nearby older neighbourhoods Public spaces were largely devoid of trees and instead dominated by parking lots 44 112 which were still insufficient for the needs of Arena Zagreb concertgoers causing parking problems for residents 136 137 As part of the confidential concession agreement the passage of Arena Zagreb into city ownership depends on regular payments of rental fees which Bandic s administration did not service in timely fashion 138 139 Transport infrastructure edit nbsp Renovated Zagreb Avenue Bandic frequently talked about the state of transport infrastructure in Zagreb 140 141 regularly announcing numerous capital infrastructure projects which would allegedly remedy traffic problems in Zagreb 142 143 144 Some of these were urban motorways through densely populated Medvednica Foothills a tunnel under the Medvednica that would connect Zagreb with Zagorje 145 142 143 various tunnels and underpasses in the historic city centre 146 147 148 extensions of numerous arterial roads such as Branimir Road and Prisavlje 149 150 and building several new bridges over Sava near Jarun 151 and Bundek 152 150 A few projects were carried out widening part of Ljubljana Avenue which Bandic subsequently in a populist move renamed Zagreb Avenue 153 Radnicka Road and Jankomir Bridge and constructing Homeland Bridge and overpasses or underpasses at several high traffic junctions such as Remetinec Roundabout 154 155 A few new stretches of arterial roads were built including filling a one kilometre gap in Branimir Road which took place from 2005 to 2016 156 Many projects were criticised for the poor quality of execution such as an underpass which continued to flood regularly during rainfall despite specific repairs to that end and the inconsistently marked cycling paths 157 158 159 160 In 2016 the city renovated the pedestrian Sava Bridge 161 and in 2018 began works to renovate Liberty Bridge 162 In 2019 Sava Bridge was closed after a part of the pavement fell through onto the embankment below Bandic said the bridge was safe and would be repaired within days 161 However the failed pavement remained closed to traffic until the end of Bandic s mayoralty at which time it was scheduled to be opened in 2022 163 164 After finishing the Liberty Bridge renovation in December 2019 165 the city began the renovation of Youth Bridge this was also Bandic s last announcement of imminent works on his perennial Jarun Bridge project 166 The Liberty Bridge renovation was criticised by the Ministry of Construction and Spatial Planning for only renovating asphalt and railings instead of carrying out repairs to the dangerously corroded bridge structure 167 168 Public transport edit Most of Bandic s involvements in transport infrastructure concerned car traffic 71 46 For instance while the cycling infrastructure was expanded it was still fragmentary and cycling rate lagged behind other European capitals despite Zagreb having one of the smallest shares of car traffic in the commute modal split 169 Although Bandic announced numerous new lines in the core of Zagreb s public transport its tram network his administration did not realise any of these projects leading to an unprecedented 20 year drought in tram line construction 170 In 2000 Bandic opened two new tram lines Dubrava Dubec and Jarun Precko construction of which was finished during the previous mayor s term These remained the last new tram tracks in the city 171 The Precko turning circle remains marred by a property dispute which at one point occasioned a temporary closure 172 In 2007 the city announced construction of seven new tram lines over the next few years including lines in Tresnjevka Laniste Dubrava and the never realised 173 Jarun Bridge two different lines to Zagreb Airport as well as proposals for further tram lines in Trnje and on the never built Vatikanska Street extension 174 Bandic would announce construction on many of these lines again until the end of his mayoralty 175 176 177 Further tram lines and other projects such as reconstructing the tram storage yard or an intermodal terminal at Sava Bridge were announced but no such plans came to fruition by the end of the mayoralty 172 87 173 178 When one of the perennial airport tram projects was brought up by news media in 2019 Bandic denied he proposed it 179 On multiple occasions since the mid 2000s Bandic had presented plans for a subway network 145 in 2014 the plan involved a 17 kilometre 11 mi light rail line to be finished by 2017 180 181 87 182 183 Subway plans were revived after the 2020 earthquake so that trams would not cause vibrations in the apartments of the residents in damaged city centre buildings per Bandic 184 In the early 2000s the City of Zagreb selected Crotram s TMK 2200 as the lowest bid for conversion of Zagreb tram rolling stock to low floor vehicles the first trams were announced during Pavic s mayoralty 185 Bandic pushed for purchase of TMK 2200s which came to dominate the rolling stock with 140 units by 2010 186 187 Though he announced and lobbied for plans to sell Crotram units in a number of European cities including Stockholm Sofia and Helsinki the deals all fell through 188 with Helsinki residents finding the test units cramped and noisy 189 while Osijek the other Croatian city with a tram network found imported trams to be cheaper 187 In 2017 wheelchair ramps were installed in the low floor trams since the tram floors did not line up with platforms 190 nbsp nbsp Comparison of Deloitte building in Oslo left and new Sljeme cable car terminal in Gracani right One of Bandic s long running projects was the reconstruction of the Sljeme cable car hr The original Sljeme cable car was opened by Mayor Pero Pirker in 1963 After long calling into question the safety of the cable car Bandic closed the cable car in 2007 after the failure of an electric motor 191 In 2008 plans were announced for a new higher capacity cable car to be opened in 2009 192 Money continued to be spent on the project 193 which eventually expanded to a 45 million scheme which would have included an extension with Zagorje at Bistra 194 Eventually construction began in 2019 and only on the original cable car s route while Bandic announced a new tram line under Medvednica which was also not realised 173 The cable car was to be opened in 2020 but the opening was pushed back several times 195 196 including for strengthening steel reinforcements after the Petrinja earthquake 197 Bandic was criticised by the opposition for continuing with the expensive project after the devastating March 2020 earthquake 198 A legal expert also characterised the cable car terminal as a plagiarism of the Deloitte building in Oslo Norway 199 The city announced that they would apply for EU funding to finance the cable car 200 ZET took out a 537 million kuna 72 million long term loan to finance the project 201 202 The cost overruns included some highly overpriced construction materials totalling at 0 4 percent under the limit which would require additional legal oversight Bandic disavowed responsibility for the overruns saying the causes were outside his control 203 As of 2021 the cost overruns were under investigation by USKOK following a 7 hour YouTube video by a pseudonymous whistleblower 204 and the cable car remained under construction 205 206 197 207 Parking garages and square remodelling edit nbsp Kvaternik Square after remodelling nbsp St Mark s Square was repaved in the late 2000s by leftover tram track paving stones 208 In an attempt to alleviate traffic problems the city built a number of parking garages in the early 2000s Garages were built under Lang and Kvaternik Squares drastically changing their appearance 209 210 In the latter case the garage came to dominate a larger plan for a makeover of Kvaternik Square 211 which followed the removal of its popular farmers market 212 In order to accommodate car traffic highly trafficked zebra crossings were replaced with underground walkways 211 The new square was widely criticised as it became unattractive to pedestrians and consequently remained empty 46 A survey found the new Kvaternik Square to be the most unpleasant square in Zagreb 213 Some reconstruction and renovation projects were also criticised for shoddy workmanship e g the controversial British Square remodelling created a roundabout too narrow to be traversed by the city buses 214 while the fountain in its centre sprayed water on a nearby bus station 215 this particular remodelling was investigated by USKOK 216 217 The Homeland Monument on Stjepan Radic Square unveiled in December 2020 was showing material wear already by April next year 218 The effect of these remodellings has been described as an elimination of squares 219 An early 2000s plan for a public parking garage for visitors of Children s Hospital Zagreb under the Ellipse High School Sports Ground hr sh behind Mimara Museum 220 ballooned into a later abandoned 310 million kuna 43 million private public partnership project with an attached shopping mall 221 An alternative deemed more attractive by the Zagreb leadership was a garage under the Republic of Croatia Square 222 Bandic lobbied for the controversial project which involved pedestrian entrances surrounding Ivan Mestrovic s monument Well of Life while garage ramps would flank the 19th century building of the Croatian National Theatre 223 224 Late 2000s plans called for three further garages in the vicinity of Flower Square and one under Strossmayer Square as well as 16 more inside various Donji grad blocks Most of these plans were abandoned after opposition by art history societies and intervention by courts Ministry of Culture as well as SDP party leadership One planned garage was constructed as a private venture part of Centar Cvjetni see Flower Square affair 225 In 2010 Zagreb Assembly enacted an ordinance against parking garages in Donji grad effectively putting an end to the developments although Bandic and Zagrebparking officials continued to toy with the idea of a garage under the theatre for a few more years 226 227 The spatial arrangement of garages constructed e g the close by Cvjetni Centar and Tuskanac garages has caused low occupancy at some of the garages while other parts of the neighbourhood lack adequate parking facilities 46 Several garages are located at the fringes of the central pedestrian zone despite their original intent to alleviate congestion they themselves cause traffic jams and increase traffic in the city core 90 228 9 In late 2017 the city started works to remove trees surrounding the Mestrovic Pavilion in the middle of the Square of the Victims of Fascism prompting protests against the city administration led by a citizens initiative named Vratite magnoliju Bring Back the Magnolia after several old magnolias among many trees and bushes that the city intended to cut down reducing the greenery around the Pavilion to a grass cover 229 230 231 Bandic and another city official were prosecuted for damaging cultural heritage and other accusations regarding the square remodelling 232 The trees some of which were protected heritage and fixtures of Zagreb pop culture 233 were removed while the process was ongoing by the city authorities some of the trees were reportedly diseased 234 and some grew too much 233 while the project documentation was contradictory on the others 235 236 The makeover also included removing Brac limestone steps and replacing them with concrete 230 At the end of the process Bandic was found not guilty and subsequently taunted protestors by cutting grass on the square while dressed in the uniform of Zrinjevac the city s park maintenance company which caused them to demand his resignation 237 238 The city administration also removed benches and placed signs forbidding walking on the green surfaces While a few academics supported the square makeover most were opposed including architectural landscaping and art history societies 239 The makeover polarised the public leading to guerrilla tree planting actions suppressed by the police the result was that the citizens much less often frequented or stopped at the square 240 241 242 The renewed square s cold monumentality has been compared to the architecture of totalitarian and fascist Independent State of Croatia which had cleared part of the square in 1941 42 while converting the pavilion to a mosque 243 244 In 2013 the city changed the zoning of the sole park in Savica neighbourhood in order to accommodate a plan to build a church in the park Protests which were ongoing by 2016 intensified in 2017 the election year by which point Savica residents and activists held round the clock sit ins to prevent construction crews from entering the park 245 A 2016 survey found that the vast majority of Savica residents were opposed to the project including 72 percent of Catholic residents 246 Two weeks before the elections Bandic promised that the project would be stopped and called for an end to protests 247 24 The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning refused to issue a location permit for building the church and it appeared that the project which would have placed the church in the most wooded area of the park was cancelled 248 Nevertheless the project was renewed in 2018 after Bandic secured another term and began supporting the project In 2019 20 while Bandic was attempting to pass a new general urban master plan the church project was expanded to incorporate a shrine dedicated to Blessed Alojzije Stepinac and plans for pilgrim tourism which would have caused the removal of the entire park 249 The new master plan failed in the city assembly and several months later city gave the park a name there were no further attempts to build in the park as of Bandic s death 250 251 The success of the Savica park protests was seen as a potential end to unchallenged decision making by Bandic and the city government 24 City finances edit nbsp Magnolia trees in front of Mestrovic Pavilion 2009 Bandic s mayoralty saw Zagreb s city budget increase from 3 8 billion Croatian kuna in 1998 252 to 13 7 billion kuna in 2021 253 During his mayoralty Bandic controlled the allocation of around 177 billion kuna 24 billion in budgets 254 On 1 January 2007 Bandic founded the Zagreb Holding placing city companies under a single corporate umbrella of which he maintained full control as the sole board member until a 2009 intervention by the Ministry of Public Administration 255 256 257 258 The holding took up some of the city s responsibilities such as building schools and kindergartens and sold and leased back city s property such as trams to finance projects 256 259 In 2007 the company issued 300 million in bonds on the London Stock Exchange purportedly to finance improvements to water sewerage and gas network 54 The sewerage network in particular was severely outdated Central Zagreb depends on an 1892 combined sewer system which would later disastrously fail in the 2020 flash flood 260 Little of the money was spent on the intended purpose being re routed into patching up the city budget real estate acquisition and Sopnica Jelkovec construction although Bandic had vouched this would not happen when the bonds were issued 54 A 2013 paper called for restructuring Zagreb Holding finding that the company was exposed to high foreign exchange risk and relied on new loans to pay off existing debts In 2011 Zagreb Holding raised 1 billion kuna in short term loans and used it to pay off debts 261 When the London bonds matured in 2016 Zagreb Holding was unable to make the payments and raised the funds by issuing a new series of bonds in the Croatian bond market Reportedly Holding leaders planned to refinance already in 2007 54 262 In 2017 Zagreb Fair and long time loss leader Zagrebacki elektricni tramvaj ZET were separated from Zagreb Holding 263 ZET the public transport company operated at a loss for a long time due to Bandic s decision to allow free travel for most Zagreb citizens and was criticised for practices such as giving a commission to drivers selling tickets 264 265 266 267 In the course of the separation Zagreb Holding controversially retained part of ZET s assets including a workers holiday resort which it sold in 2020 prompting a protest by the workers 268 269 Research carried out by Corruption Research Center Budapest CRCB into City of Zagreb and Zagreb Holding found the city to be the worst among European capitals in corruption risks and public tender competition 270 In the 2011 2016 period more than a third of the contracts awarded by the two entities had only one bidder covering billions of Croatian kunas CRCB estimated that the social loss to the entities due to inefficient pricing over this period was 2 70 billion kuna Zagreb Holding s tenders were the most inefficient in 2013 while City of Zagreb s were in 2016 both years close to local elections 271 Using Benford s law CRCB found high price distortions compared to true market value of services rendered especially in no competition tenders and those issued by Zagreb Holding 272 The tenders were mainly won by companies with high presence in the public procurement market and low international export turnover 273 The city also poorly utilised EU funding below average for both Croatia and comparable European capitals 274 While Vodoopskrba i odvodnja Zagreb Holding s water management company announced it would spend 1 4 billion kuna 200 million from EU funds in 2014 it only received 4 5 million kuna 600 000 53 In 2014 Bandic and a number of high ranking Zagreb Holding and city officials were arrested one of them while attempting to flee Croatia The case was dubbed Agram affair by the press The mayor was charged with evading tax on political donations illegal preferential treatment of the CIOS refuse management company as well as trading city owned land below market price Bandic was bailed out a month later His bail set at a record 15 million kuna 2 million was paid by the same law firm which was retained by the city Bandic was later fined 30 000 kuna for this conflict of interest Bandic was returned to jail in 2015 after attempting to influence a witness but was released after a month 275 276 277 Bandic did not resign from his post instead the city was led by acting mayor and former Bandic s deputy Sandra Svaljek between Bandic s first and second arrest The latter coincided with Bandic s successful appeal to the legal ban from exercising his office Svaljek continued leading the city for a short period until Bandic rescinded her authorisation from jail and gave it to Vesna Kusin Soon after his release Bandic returned to the mayor s post 278 279 280 At the time of Bandic s death he was being tried in several court cases including the case of the aforementioned Agram affair the stands affair involving alleged preferential treatment of politician Zeljka Markic s anti abortion rally a case involving the Zagreb wastewater treatment plant and others 281 276 Several high ranking officials in Bandic s administration were convicted of illegally altering the general urban master plan and received suspended prison sentences 282 283 Undeveloped properties edit nbsp Gredelj factory grounds in 2016 During Bandic s mayoralty the city acquired several brownfield properties which proved impossible to sell or develop In April 2004 then mayor Vlasta Pavic criticized Bandic for buying land formerly owned by the Zagrepcanka meat packing plant as the city was unable to register itself as the owner 284 The controversy was dubbed the Zagrepcanka case by the newspapers 284 285 Pavic distanced herself from Bandic and Bandic was heard cursing her during a session of the Assembly 284 285 Backed by SDP members in the City Assembly Bandic launched a newspaper advertisement in support of his decision to buy the lot Charges were brought against Bandic and others involved over the advertisement and frequent and inadmissible attacks on the court 286 Three years later Bandic was acquitted the City of Zagreb was awarded ownership of the Zagrepcanka lot in a court judgment Bandic promised a new business district in the Zagrepcanka location 287 However in 2021 the city was still hoping to balance the budget by selling the undeveloped lot 288 A number of similarly derelict former factories exist in the streets around the Main Railway Station 37 Among a number of similar cases was that of former Janko Gredelj railway factory at the Main Railway Station Zagreb Holding bought the closed factory from Gredelj in 2006 for 660 million kuna a sum raised by issuing bonds Years later Bandic announced a plan to have the city buy the grounds from Zagreb Holding in order to help Zagreb Holding pay off its debts In 2006 most of the old factory was taken off the cultural heritage register while Bandic announced plans for a new city centre No construction has been done on Gredelj grounds which remain occupied by decaying unmaintained buildings except for a small city operated parking lot opened in 2018 2 288 289 290 291 Paromlin is another former factory complex and protected industry heritage in city ownership located adjacent to Gredelj and the railway station A 2006 deal to preserve the complex and use it to house a Marriott Hotel and a 2012 project to house the Main City Library both failed In 2011 a part of the complex was razed and turned into a public parking lot Part of Paromlin collapsed in 2013 while a different part was illegally demolished in 2014 Of the 2013 collapse Bandic said that if he had been born earlier he would have created a renovation project in time 292 293 294 295 296 In 2007 Zagreb purchased the Potsdam Tin Theatre German Blechbuchse Croatian Potsdamsko limeno kazaliste 297 298 The prefabricated theatre was bought for 80 000 and 18 million kuna 2 4 million was spent transporting it to the city Despite a proposal to place it in Sredisce New Zagreb the city decided to erect the theatre at the district s outskirts in Slobostina The Slobostina lot was bought from a private company in exchange for a lot in Tresnjevka and 12 million kuna 1 6 million The theatre was never assembled and by 2015 many of its parts had been reportedly stolen 299 300 301 Environment edit In the mid 2010s during the fourteen year project of widening Radnicka Road part of the main wastewater canal previously an open sewer was covered and sewerage was built in Kozari Putevi one of a number of illegally built neighbourhoods in the Zitnjak area 302 303 304 In the 2000s Bandic had based his campaign in Zitnjak informal settlements One of Bandic s perennial promises was closing the Jakusevec landfill an ecological hazard to the city which was at times closed due to strikes suffered from plastic waste fires and which was at one time operated without a licence 305 306 307 308 After a strike by local residents Bandic exempted them from an ordinance forbidding raising livestock in the city 309 310 The Jakusevec hazard was not solved by the end of Bandic s mayoralty 311 In the late 2010s the city was beset by numerous fires some allegedly intentionally started at the private CIOS landfill implicated in the Agram affair 312 313 314 In 2018 Bandic presented a project which would mandate an allegedly newly invented form of HHO cleaning of car engines for all vehicles in Zagreb at cost to owners in order to reduce their carbon footprint Proof of the project s usefulness did not surface and the project was eventually pulled after criticism from engineering experts 315 316 317 Political street renaming and monuments edit In the early 1990s the new post Communist government carried out a series of street renames returning many pre 1941 street names but also giving some streets new names 318 The most controversial rename was that of the Square of the Victims of Fascism which was named Croatian Nobles Square After SDP came to power in 2000 the square s pre 1990 name was returned while the new name was transferred to the nearby Stock Market Square 319 Though the wave of renames almost completely subsided after 1995 320 Bandic administration also took a leading role in a few high profile cases of street renaming In 2008 he opposed protests calling for renaming Marshal Tito Square named after Yugoslavia s long time Communist leader Josip Broz Tito to its erstwhile name Theatre Square saying that there were no historical reasons to change its name 321 Nevertheless in 2017 he proposed a successful motion to change its name to Republic of Croatia Square 322 323 Branko Lustig a Croatian Jewish film producer and member of Bandic s party was removed from his seat in Zagreb Assembly by Bandic after he refused to support the motion 323 In 2006 there was a movement to name a square after the first president of Croatia Franjo Tuđman Right wing supporters of Tuđman proposed renaming various major squares after Tuđman while left wing opponents proposed the long meadow in the wide central reservation of Croatian Fraternal Union Street Bandic who multiple times stated that Tuđman would get the most beautiful square in Zagreb because he deserves it 324 ultimately gave the president the hitherto unnamed park behind Rudolf barracks 325 a move criticised by the right 326 327 The park was initially intended to be remodelled into an urban square with a water park and pavilion with shops and restaurants creating per Bandic the second heart of the city 324 327 Bandic later fielded a proposal to build a road interchange there in order to speed up car traffic in the city centre 147 The projects were not carried out In 2015 after forming a coalition with HDZ Bandic ardently supported their plan to rename Zagreb Airport after Tuđman 328 Tuđman s bust was eventually erected on the median of CFU Street where Bandic had in 2012 placed a number of controversial fountains 329 330 331 Another 2006 controversy erupted over the 150th anniversary of the birth of scientist Nikola Tesla which Bandic celebrated by erecting 332 Ivan Mestrovic s statue of Tesla which was relocated from its original position at the Ruđer Boskovic Institute RBI to Tesla Street in Donji grad Various institutions including RBI the Academy of Fine Arts and Ivan Mestrovic Museum stated that the decision went against the wishes of Mestrovic The sculptor had strongly intended that the sculpture be shown paired with a statue of Boskovic at the RBI going as far as to destroy the moulds to prevent replication of the statues The return of the statue was the subject of an unsuccessful petition in 2013 333 334 332 2020 edit nbsp Damaged building in the city centre at the mercy of weather two years after the 2020 Zagreb earthquake In late 2019 Zagreb was beset by protests by the Zagreb Calls You initiative Siget Green Action and Right to the City calling for Bandic s resignation and arrest over his alleged large scale frauds and corruption 335 336 337 338 The protests were motivated by the expectation that Bandic would pass a new general urban master plan accommodating the Zagreb Manhattan project which would have involved construction on a large amounts of green spaces and sports grounds demolition of Zagreb Fair and Zagreb Hippodrome and according to Bandic construction of a 200 storey skyscraper in New Zagreb 339 340 341 Zagreb Manhattan and other changes in the plan proved controversial attracting more than 30 000 complaints from the public which were all rejected by the city authorities The plan eventually failed after Bandic and HDZ could not come to an agreement about amendments to the plan 342 251 Defeat of HDZ s incumbent Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic in the 2019 20 Croatian presidential election for which the backing of scandal ridden Bandic was blamed contributed to the falling out between Bandic and HDZ 343 344 345 In early 2020 protests against Bandic were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic 346 347 which reached Zagreb on 25 February 2020 348 In March 2020 Bandic was criticised for making jokes about the lack of soap in Zagreb schools 349 In the early hours of 22 March 2020 the day the coronavirus quarantine started Zagreb was struck by a ML 5 5 earthquake Despite its relatively low magnitude the shallow focus of the earthquake and the poor state of Zagreb building stock contributed to widespread damage even affecting some new buildings such as the Museum of Contemporary Art and Centar Cvjetni 350 351 352 Most of the hospitals located in old buildings in the vulnerable northern part of the city suffered damage and had to be evacuated 353 The damage was later estimated at 11 6 billion 354 In the early days of recovery Bandic appointed himself head of civil protection in Zagreb and began holding daily press conferences on the subjects of earthquake and COVID 19 355 Bandic received criticism for his remark that the damages occurred because the residents did not invest in their property 356 the announcement that property owners would be left to finance their own repairs 356 and assigning the blame for city centre damages to homeowners who did not take the city up on a facade renovation program which in fact did not include seismic retrofitting or any other earthquake damage prevention work 357 358 359 A state inquiry found that none of the contracts aforementioned renovation projects had been closed and that the emergency disaster fund had been spent on various associations religious community projects and festivities 360 In April protests against soon continued in the form of cacerolazo 361 while Bandic was accused by the Ministry of Construction of obstructing the recovery efforts including refusing to house residents made homeless by the earthquake in empty and squatted social housing 362 Bandic soon backtracked on his opposition to financing rebuilding 363 and remained optimistic in his statements about recovery from the earthquake 364 365 However reconstruction had not yet begun by the time of Bandic s death 366 367 368 and many people were still living in severely damaged buildings months later 369 370 In Donji grad cultural heritage regulations created additional red tape for affected citizens The authorities estimated that 20 000 people or more than half of residents of Donji grad had moved out of their homes by the middle of April 371 372 and scaffolding protecting pedestrians from falling masonry began to be erected only in 2021 373 Bandic was criticised for spending millions on projects such as Snow Queen Trophy and decorative lighting while reducing allocation of funds for repairs of schools and other public buildings and spending city money on uncoordinated duplication of residents own renovation efforts 374 375 376 The city was also affected by a flash flood in July where citizens forced open an unstaffed dam to drain the city 377 and a stronger earthquake in nearby Petrinja area in December which per Bandic s estimate caused 20 times less damage to Zagreb than the March earthquake 378 The city did not release precise information on the extent of damages in Zagreb from the flood and the Petrinja earthquake though Bandic pledged financial assistance to earthquake victims in Petrinja 379 where the City of Zagreb had earlier built school infrastructure while Petrinja s mayor was a member of BM365 380 381 One of the people involved in protests against Bandic was filmmaker Dario Jurican who legally changed his name to Milan Bandic and ran in the 2019 20 presidential election as the self proclaimed evangelist of corruption 382 coming in fifth with 4 61 of the vote 383 In 2020 he created a documentary film Kumek about Bandic s scandals 384 Personal life and education editBandic was born on 22 November 1955 in Donji Mamici Grude PR Bosnia and Herzegovina FPR Yugoslavia to Jozo Bandic and Ankica Tomic He was a middle child having an older brother Drago and younger sister Tonka 257 In 1974 he went to Zagreb where he majored in defence and protection at the University of Zagreb 385 Students completing this major which was in Zagreb taught at the Faculty of Political Science were qualified to teach the subjects of defence and protection foundations of Marxism and theory and practice of socialism to high school students As part of the class involved practical instruction in the Yugoslav People s Army the students were exempted from mandatory military service distinguished students were also granted the status of officer in the reserve force 386 387 Bandic states that after finishing schooling he served in the army 388 which some newspapers interpreted as mandatory military service 389 After finishing college Bandic stayed in Zagreb where he married his wife Vesna with whom he had a daughter Anamarija 257 In 1996 Bandic divorced his wife citing disagreements A week later his wife took advantage of a programme allowing highly discounted purchase of social apartments for people without a place to live in order to purchase a small house in Donji grad for 35 760 kuna 4 800 claiming she had lived there since 1975 Her request was approved by Bandic in his official capacity Bandic remained living together with his wife in an apartment in Stara Pescenica and in 2003 they remarried In 2005 Bandic dismissed accusations of trying to profit from the social programme saying If I had wanted to profit I would have bought the house and sold it and we would not be still paying it off today 1 The house was in derelict condition and had collapsed by 2014 when the Bandics sold it to Adris grupa shareholder and billionaire Ante Vlahovic for 150 000 who proceeded to build a controversial apartment building occupying its place and the adjoining lots 390 391 In 2001 he illegally built a house in Slavagora near Samobor 59 Bandic and his family also owned and or lived in several flats which he did not report in his asset declaration 392 393 394 395 Bandic owned three horses two of which were kept at the Zagreb Hippodrome 43 He also had two golden retrievers Bil and Rudi which he often walked during his work hours 396 397 Political career edit nbsp Bandic s billboard during his 2009 10 presidential campaign In socialist Yugoslavia Bandic joined Croatia s communist party the League of Communists of Croatia LCC In 1983 he found a job in his field in LCC s Municipal Committee of Pescenica municipality of Zagreb as an expert political worker responsible for defence and protection After the collapse of SFR Yugoslavia which started the transition to capitalism LCC rebranded itself as the Social Democratic Party of Croatia SDP Bandic remained with the new party In 1993 he became the secretary of SDP s Zagreb Committee in 1995 he joined the Zagreb Assembly and in 1997 he became the committee s president In 2000 Bandic bought off two HDZ councilmen finding the necessary majority to call snap elections 257 Bandic was ultimately elected mayor six times in 2000 2001 2005 2009 2013 and 2017 All the elections had a low turnout never exceeding 50 percent 398 399 Bandic won with as little as 48 000 votes in the 2000 election which had 689 000 eligible voters His strongest show of support was 170 000 votes in the 2013 election against Ranko Ostojic the candidate of Bandic s erstwhile party SDP Bandic s politics were populist in nature he split with the mayors of the 1990s by fighting for the rights of little people 400 campaigning in the early 2000s in the poor neighbourhoods of Pescenica an iconic poster portrays Bandic walking through mud in an unpaved street in Kozari Putevi 401 402 Bandic announced various populist measures such as paying an extra salary to parents of three or more children free public transport and 100 kuna 13 Easter bonuses for retirees though not all of these measures were ever carried out whole or in part 402 267 403 Some measures were reversed in face of financial issues e g Bandic went from offering free rides to everyone in certain conditions in 2008 to vying for massive bus fare hikes in 2010 stating that it was high time for a fair distribution of subsidies 265 after ZET the public transport company registered a large deficit 267 265 266 In 2002 Bandic caused a political scandal by fleeing the scene of a car accident while under the influence of alcohol Bandic unsuccessfully attempted to bribe and threatened the police officer who caught him 404 The police officer was fired for leaking a copy of the police report This judgment was later overturned by a court and he was reinstated in the police force 405 The SDP leadership relieved Bandic of his mayoral duties and the Assembly voted in Vlasta Pavic as the new mayor 406 while Bandic was kept on as deputy mayor 407 Though initially supporting Bandic s projects 408 despite opposition councilmembers protests that Bandic would use Pavic as a puppet mayor 400 Pavic soon expressed the same opinion herself causing a falling out in the SDP ranks Despite SDP president Ivica Racan siding with Pavic 409 Bandic would behind the scenes retain much of his power over the city 400 In 2003 Bandic was reportedly attempting to force snap elections by attacking SDP s coalition partners and forming new alliances in the Zagreb Assembly 410 In 2004 he caused a controversy by publicly cursing out Pavic in the assembly 411 for which she demanded an apology 412 Eventually she gave in and agreed not to run in the 2005 elections 413 SDP would nominate Bandic as their mayoral candidate and he won with 103 000 votes Returning to the mayoral position Bandic consolidated his power placing city companies in a holding company over which he had absolute control appointing himself the sole board member see City finances 257 Controversies continued in 2005 when a Novi list journalist alleged that Bandic said Work liberates the Nazis weren t totally dumb The following day Bandic threatened to sue the journalist and the newspaper he claimed he said Marxists not Nazis 414 In January 2006 Bandic publicly threatened a journalist working for Vecernji list because the journalist asked Bandic about an offer from a Czech company Bandic then replied aggressively cursing and threatening the journalist 415 Afterwards he claimed he had simply spoken to the journalist in a loud voice 415 Following Racan s illness and death Bandic unsuccessfully ran for the position at the 2007 leadership election 416 losing to Zoran Milanovic 417 Bandic reportedly established himself as the leader of the opposition within the party against Milanovic who was alleged to have wanted Bandic out of the mayoral office 418 419 Both Milanovic and Bandic later denied that there were major disagreements and a discord in the SDP 420 In 2008 a letter signed by 26 public figures of the Croatian Left including academic Drazen Lalic criticized the policies of the SDP particularly Bandic s tenure as mayor and corruption allegations and called out Milanovic for betraying social democracy Milanovic and the SDP leadership refuted the letter and expressed their support for Bandic 421 422 Bandic ran for president in the 2009 10 elections 423 As he had done this without the authorisation of his party who had nominated Ivo Josipovic he was expelled from SDP and lost his position as leader of the party s Zagreb branch 424 In the first round of the election on 27 December 2009 Bandic received 14 83 percent of the vote placing him in second place after Josipovic with 32 70 percent 425 On 10 January he lost the second round with 39 74 percent of the vote 426 In Zagreb Bandic lost both rounds of the election receiving support only in a handful of city neighbourhoods 427 428 A year before his presidential campaign it came to light that a record breaking 251 criminal complaints had been filed against Bandic but the State Attorney s Office had neglected to act on any of them 429 In 2014 Bandic s mayoralty was temporarily interrupted when he was arrested due to the Agram affair However he did not resign and returned to his position after his second release from jail As of Bandic s death Agram and other court cases were still ongoing See City finances After running as independent for several years following his expulsion from SDP in 2015 Bandic founded a political party Milan Bandic 365 Labour and Solidarity Party which was soon renamed Bandic Milan 365 Labour and Solidarity Party The party found little support from voters Its best show was two seats won in the 2015 election which were followed with a single seat in 2016 In the 2020 election BM365 won around 9 000 votes and was left without representation in the parliament Nevertheless Bandic formed numerous alliances in the parliament and was credited with ensuring the victory of HDZ with whom he formed a coalition in the 2015 elections 430 Bandic once made a remark about the unsteady nature of these alliances where he called the MPs in his alliance play chips 381 431 a term which caught on in the news 432 He treated his allies among them numerous minority representatives with projects and donations funded by Zagreb city budget 433 Bandic s city administration and Zagreb Holding would frequently contract companies owned by Bandic s associates such as Bandic s godfather Milan Penava s company Tigra which gained media attention due to the conflict of interest involved but also very high costs charged to the city 434 435 The city administration would keep contracting construction companies which did work of poor quality that resulted in scandals such as the Vrbani III companies and Tehnika which had to redo twice its 2012 repaving of Flower Square 435 436 During the Agram affair case USKOK played back secret recording of Bandic and city officials where Bandic apparently created a confrontation to impel the officials to hire one of his relatives Bandic did not deny the veracity of the tape 437 438 Bandic s administration was fraught with accusations of nepotism extending to the family of Bandic s deputy and acting successor Jelena Pavicic Vukicevic 439 440 Pavicic Vukicevic herself was appointed head of a city department in controversial circumstances soon after her removal from the Croatian parliament on which Bandic commented that he would not let her end up in the streets 440 In early 2020 after HDZ s President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic lost the election for her second term there was a cooling in the relations between Bandic and the HDZ government who killed his plan for a 200 storey skyscraper and criticised his handling of the 2020 calamities see 2020 In May 2020 Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic publicly doubted Bandic s ability to pass the 2021 election threshold In return Bandic mocked the accusations that his notoriety brought down Grabar Kitarovic 345 Health and death editOn 3 July 2003 Bandic suffered a serious stroke After a session of the Zagreb Assembly he requested medical assistance stating that he had begun to feel ill during the session He was hospitalised for a few weeks then went to Krapinske Toplice to recover and returned to his duties in September 441 442 In 2018 he had a surgery to insert a coronary stent In June 2020 he was again hospitalised due to suspicion of another stroke following an apparent dizzy spell in front of the cameras where he needed help to remain upright 442 443 444 In August 2020 he also underwent vocal cord surgery which was unable to resolve speech problems which troubled him for the remainder of his life 445 442 Bandic died allegedly from a heart attack at the Sveti Duh Clinical Hospital in Zagreb on 28 February 2021 aged 65 446 He was the longest serving mayor of Zagreb at the time of his death 447 He was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery three days later on 3 March The funeral was attended by senior state officials including Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandrokovic and ministers Tomo Medved and Gordan Grlic Radman Acting mayor Jelena Pavicic Vukicevic and Ljubo Jurcic former Minister of Economy in Racan s second cabinet addressed the funeral ceremony 448 449 Serbian Patriarch Porfirije was expected among the speakers but was unable to attend the funeral due to self isolation after being in contact with a COVID positive person 450 His funeral was attended by more than a thousand people in total thus violating quarantine rules that state that a maximum of 25 people can attend a funeral 451 On 22 March the State s Attorney Office began an inquiry into the circumstances of Bandic s death 452 As of May 2021 the results of Bandic s autopsy had not yet been published Honours and awards editIn 2007 Bandic joined the Brethren of the Croatian Dragon as the Dragon of Stone Gate 453 In 2009 Bandic was made honorary citizen of Srebrenica Bosnia and Herzegovina 454 while in 2018 received the Order of Friendship from Vladimir Putin 455 A 2019 attempt to bestow an honorary doctorate upon Bandic by University of Zagreb was stopped after protests and motions of opposition by councils of several faculties of the university which included Bandic s alma mater Faculty of Political Sciences 456 457 458 385 459 See also edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Milan Bandic Zagreb crisis List of mayors of ZagrebFootnotes edit a b Bandic se 1996 razveo zbog otkupa stana Index hr in 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