On Monday, Slovenian government announced that the extraordinary member of Mercator board, responsible for all deals and transactions with Agrokor, will Gregor Planteu, former director of Celje handball club. According to Slovenian Minister of Economy, Mr. Zdravko Počivalšek, the decision is “professionally sound”. However, Slovenian media report on surprise behind the scenes, since Mr. Planteu is a relatively unknown name, and has never been at the helm of a larger company.

Slovenian Parliament has recently adopted an act protecting public interest in Mercator, connected to the Agrokor upheavals. Political analysts believe that the act is mostly an attempt to insure negotiations directly with Croatian government, and a sort of a tactical response to Croatian ‘lex Agrokcor’.