In February 2021, in the Republic of Croatia, the process of electing a new person for the position of the Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia began. The process quickly became a bone of contention and caused a wide divergence of views among Croatian legal experts, particularly those specialized in the field of constitutional law. There was substantial media coverage with effervescent media appearances. To a large extent, the person responsible for the emergence of the current situation is the President of the Republic of Croatia, Zoran Milanović , who advocated for Zlata Đurđević to be the next Justice of the Supreme Court. Therefore it can be said that she was "his candidate". This situation made it acutely aware that currently in the Croatian public and political life, there is an unpleasant cohabitation between the President and the Prime Minister due to their quite opposing political and world views. The process of electing the Supreme Court Justice serves as an example of the conflictual cohabitation. The fundamental legal source which regulates the election of the Supreme Court Justice is the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia. In the article 119, paragraph 2, the Constitution stipulates that Supreme Court Justice is elected by the Croatian Parliament on the basis of the submitted opinions of the General Session of the Parliament and the Parliamentary Committee for the Judiciary on the candidate, proposed to the Parliament by the President. It is important to note that the norm on the nominator of a candidate is quite vague, it is only mentioned that the President nominates a candidate for the Supreme Court Justice. In the Constitution, there is no further elaboration of the procedure for electing the Supreme Court Justice. This constitutional provision requires its elaboration through adopting implementing acts. In this situation, the implementing act is the Court Act. The Court Act from 2018 stipulates in Article 44a that the procedure for electing the Justice of the Supreme Court is initiated by the State Judicial Council by publishing an open call. It is important to note that the election begins with the publication of the open call, and not when the President proposes the candidate to the Parliament. The President expressly considers the nomination of candidates for the Supreme Court Justice to be his direct constitutional authority and considers that the parts of the Court Act that regulate the procedure for electing the Supreme Court Justice are irrelevant. The most heated debates concerned precisely these norms and proposals for the evaluation of their constitutionality were initiated.