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In a television interview one Croatian Commercial Court judge Mislav Kolakušić announced his plans to stand as a candidate in the upcoming European Elections. The statement raised the question whether Kolakušić, being an active judge, has the right to do so. We examined national and EU laws and regulations on political participation of judges which could apply to this situation. Even though we found it is true that a Croatian judge can stand as a candidate at the European Elections, what we also discovered are serious contradictions which are yet to unravel. On the 3rd of March a Commercial court judge Mislav Kolakušić made an appearance in one of Croatia’s most watched TV programmes on Croatian public television, an hour-long political talk show called Nedjeljom u 2" where he announced he will be standing as a candidate in the upcoming European Elections. In the interview
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