A secondary reason for us coming up to Motovun this weekend was to help our friend Ranko Bon form a local branch of Green Party – Green Alternative (Zelena stranka – Zelena alternativa) here to fight against the incumbent mayor, Slobodan Vugrinec, in the up-coming local elections.

For years the town council has not felt the need to run its affairs transparently – the primary example being the way Adria Jupiter’s golf course development was corruptly pushed through.

Is Ranko to be our Obama, and give us all renewed hope?

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