The HDSSB party was established earlier this year after Branimir Glavas and some other former senior officials of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in Osijek split away from the HDZ amid the HDZ leadership's accusations against Glavas, who is now suspected of war crimes in that eastern Croatian city.
HDSSB chief Kresimir Bubalo said his party was open for cooperation with all parties willing to invest more efforts in the development of the region of Slavonia and Baranja and in the fiscal decentralisation and regionalisation of Croatia.
Bubalo told a news conference, which was held during a break of the HDSSB Main Committee's session, that this party was against announced plans of the incumbent government to administratively arrange the country into two regions.
He criticised the Ivo Sanader Cabinet's plans to sell the state-owned shares in the INA and HT companies so as to ensure funds for textbooks for all children free of charge and service the second instalment of the debt to pensioners.
Bubalo said that the income from the shares' sales should be used for more important things which he said are investments and capital infrastructure works.
Against the backdrop of the recent incidents at border area between Croatia and Slovenia along the Mura River, Bubalo called for Croatia's authorities to finally identify the borderline along the Danube River with Serbia.