"Ivo Sanader is an intelligent man. What, then, was his crucial mistake? He has one big drawback – he is vain. As he became more powerful, he also became more self-assured and, consequently, arrogant. As far as Sanader saw it, the change on the top of Croatia's political system was only a technical one: as everyone had a hand in the "business", he thought he could sleep peacefully. And for a time he did, knowing that his associates were held together by fear of each other. But he believed that he was still the one pulling the strings. That was a mistake.
His arrogance did not leave him, even at the moment when he heard that the state attorney was going to demand that parliament lift his immunity in a big sweep against corruption. Otherwise, why would he have remained in the country until the very last moment? He escaped Croatia only when he heard that the attorney's office had made the move to strip him of his immunity in order to arrest him.
And he escaped like a true amateur. Completely unprepared, without a plan of escape and without a plan B. War criminals such as Branimir Glavas could have given Sanader some advice; he has experience in fleeing the country. But unlike Glavas, Sanader was not a criminal, or so he maintained until a day before his own escape. However, that will be no longer for him to decide, but the Croatian courts."
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