The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Vladimir Seks, on Friday evening apologised to Croatian journalists for calling them names in a newspaper interview, and asked them for their understanding.
"I apologise to all journalists for my strong and inappropriate reaction, using strong and inappropriate language. I ask them for understanding, to look at the other side of the coin as well. I ask the Journalists Association to remind its members who work in the print media of their responsibility to speak the truth rather than destroy other people's lives," Seks told the national broadcaster HTV in its prime-time evening news programme.
Seks repeated that over the past month he had been the target of a relentless "lynching campaign" by some media, which he said were persecuting and accusing him of the gravest crimes.
"I simply cracked under such pressure and indeed used inappropriate language with inappropriate ferocity in reaction to my media persecutors," Seks said.
