Miro Bulj, MP for Most and Mayor of Sinj, in a sharp video message published on August 11, accused the Prime Minister and the Government over the waste scandal in Lika, demanding their resignation and early elections.
Andrej Plenković's government must go, the Parliament must be dissolved, and citizens must decide at new elections who will lead the country, this is the central message that Miro Bulj, MP for Most and Mayor of Sinj, conveyed via social media on Tuesday, August 11, 2026. The trigger is the scandal involving illegal waste disposal in the Gospić area, a case Bulj calls 'ecocide in Lika' and in which he sees direct political responsibility of the executive branch itself.
In an address that spared no one, Bulj stated that he has been warning for years that the Croatian Government treats the land, people, environment, water, and all resources 'worse than the Chetniks and all occupiers', and the waste scandal in Lika is, for him, the best proof of that. He explicitly demands that Prime Minister Plenković call elections, and expects coalition partners to return their mandates and withdraw support, a move that Most, as he said, would back.
He also used the address to explain his absence from the honorary box at this year's Sinjska Alka. The reason was not a protocol whim, but a matter of principle. 'I didn't sit there because this Government, in my opinion, stinks of waste mafia, of a mafia that has sold off everything Croatian,' he said. He called on citizens to assess at the polls who protects national interests and fights for a sovereign Croatia, and who, serves foreign interests.
Bulj also referred to his own experience from 2017, when as an activist he prevented an attempt to dispose of industrial waste in the Sinj area of Slane Stine, near the Cetina River tributary, between Suhač and Karakašica. 'Back then, we prevented a scenario like the one we see today in Lika,' he stressed.
A particularly emotional tone marked the part dedicated to Lika, which he called the 'heart of Croatia', recalling the contribution of Croatian defenders, including his fellow citizen Mirko Norac. 'Together we defended Croatia from the Chetniks, and today, in my opinion, the Government treats Croatia worse than all occupiers,' Bulj concluded.
