Officials were divided about whether Varga was justified or not in using state resources for personal purposes after Croatian TV station RTL on Sunday published a photo of the health minister being driven to a skiing holiday in Italy in his official car.
Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Monday that although Vargas wasn’t breaking government regulations by using the car and driver, his actions were wrong. An official vehicle was a privilege that “allows officials to do their job normally, but one should be able to recognise, among a number of situations, where the boundaries are”, Milanovic said.
“So it’s up to the people to assess where the line is, and I think that minister Varga has misjudged the situation this time,” he said.
Online reactions to the ski-trip photographs have been almost exclusively negative however, with the vast majority of comments stressing that Varga’s privileges are paid for by Croatian taxpayers and that while the state budget is struggling to fund other important initiatives, a minister’s private jaunt is being underwritten by the public purse.
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