Speaking on behalf of the minorities' caucus, ethnic Italian Furio Radin said that they would back Kosor and her cabinet members but that their support would be conditional as ethnic minorities were dissatisfied with how their coalition agreement with the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was being implemented.
"Our support will exist, but we will be able to review it, which will depend on a pace of implementation of the agreement," Radin said, claiming that many measures from the agreement, which the HDZ and minorities concluded after the last parliamentary elections, were not being carried out. In this context he mentioned the use of minority native languages, the return of Serb refugees, positive discrimination etc.
Andrija Hebrang of the HDZ said that the platform of the new government clearly identified problems Croatia was faced with and that the government was braced to solve them immediately.
He pointed out the new government's commitment to priorities in the economy, finance, and social welfare as well as in the rights of ethnic minorities.
Hebrang cited the commitment to anti-fascism as one priorities of the Kosor cabinet.
In this context Hebrang criticised media reports saying that he showed sympathy for the Ustasha criminal Maks Luburic in a recent newspaper interview.
Hebrang said that this was an attempt "to put a spoke in a government's wheel even before that government is approved" as well as an attempt to cause a rift between the HDZ and its coalition partners.
"This is an evil attempt to destabilise the country at the hardest moment and at the moment of approving the new government," the HDZ official said.
Speaking on behalf of the caucus of the Social Liberals and the Pensioners' party (HSLS/HSU), Ivan Cehok called on MPs to stop wasting time on discussions on ideological differences and to focus on economic issues.
The government has nine days to propose radical anti-recession measures, Cehok said, adding that the country needed more operational and elaborated measures for handling the crisis.
Josip Friscic of the Peasant Party (HSS) urged the new government to immediately start with anti-crisis actions. He was confident that the government would resolutely continue reforms on its road towards the European Union, because "we need them not for meeting EU conditions but for creating new values".
Milorad Pupovac of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) called on the new government to reverse Croatia's path towards instability.
Pupovac insisted on preserving and protecting the fundamental constitutional values, saying that the new government should not be afraid of making radical moves.
The opposition parties reiterated their calls for early elections and criticised the new government for lack of political legitimacy.
Zoran Milanovic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) criticised the Prime Minister-designate for failing to cite any concrete measure in her programme for handling the current situation.
Vesna Pusic of the People's Party (HNS) said that after Ivo Sanader stepped down as premier, the legitimacy of the new cabinet was weakened, and that the legitimacy was only based on votes by 77 members of the parliament and not on public support.
Pusic urged Kosor to specify how she was going to fight corruption, which was why, she said, Sanader resigned.
How can the anti-corruption struggle continue when attempts are being made to cover up the scandal surrounding the purchase of military trucks in 2004, Pusic said.
Damir Kajin of the regional Istrian Democratic Party (IDS) also prosed early elections, saying that "after the government led by Ivo Sanader failed, how could the remnants of that government be successful?"