Addressing the HDSSB main committee's session in the eastern town of Vukovar on Saturday, Sisljagic said that 92 percent of all taxes poured into Zagreb keeping the state treasury filled which he said "creates an opportunity for corruption and crime".
"It is a shame that Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor declares herself the main fighter against corruption and crime after she had for years claimed that she had been following Ivo Sanader wherever he was going," Sisljagic said.
He accused the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of including "several criminal enterprises" that pushed the country into a debt trap of EUR 46 billion with 320,000 unemployed people and into an economic collapse with no prospects for improvement.
Sisljagic said that all of that was "crime against the Croatian people and the Croatian state".
He also accused the HDZ rule since 2003 of persecuting Croatian war veterans and of criminalising the Croatian Homeland Defence War.
He pointing the accusing finger at HDZ senior official and Deputy Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks for exerting pressure on judiciary.
The HDSSB leader said that his party was in favour of Croatia's admission to the European Union but not in favour of the way the HDZ was conducting the accession negotiations. He criticised the government for keeping secret all what was negotiated with the European Union.
At the beginning of the meeting in Vukovar, the HDSSB main committee's chairman, Dinko Buric read a letter Branimir Glavas, the party founder and a war crimes convict, sent from the prison in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he is serving his term. On that occasion Buric said that the guilty verdict against Gavas was political.
Glavas wrote in the letter that he kept fighting to prove his innocence.
According to statistics presented at the meeting, this regional Croatian party has 35,000 members and 270 branches.