Milan Bandić, the mayor of Zagreb, is strolling around the city center. He occasionally stops and exchanges greetings with people sitting in innumerable cafés. Of course, he is preparing for next year’s presidential elections or elections for prime minister two years from now. Having demonstrated his ability to govern the Croatian capital, he is eager to show that he can govern the whole country, as well. Half in jest, he heralds himself as the mayor of Croatia. He lost to Ivo Josipović in the last presidential elections, but he appears not to have learned anything from his defeat. For crying out loud, he is already the mayor of one quarter of the Croatian population, and the youngest one at that, as well as one half of the country’s economy. What else could he possibly want? The lofty title combined with political quagmire? In this respect, he reminds me of Boris Johnson, the mayor of London. He, too, seems to be after the title of prime minister rather than real power in Britain’s hub. Luckily, the title of queen is beyond him in Britain. Returning to Bandić, his misguided political ambitions should be a signal to everyone in Zagreb that he is no longer fit to be the city’s mayor, either.