The opposition said that the commission should investigate who in the government had approved the cooperation of state companies Ina, Koncar and HEP with the French company 'Match Telecom", which submitted forged bank guarantees in its bid, which was discovered subsequently.
The opposition also asked that the commission investigate the role of the Telecommunications Agency Council and the Agency itself which MPs said had favoured Match Telecom by extending deadlines for the submission of bids and refusing the only valid bid, submitted by the Croatian-Swedish consortium 'Treca Sreca'.
After the first tender was declared null and void, bids were invited again and the said consortium was chosen as the best bidder.
The club of deputies of the Social Liberal Party and the Democratic Centre (HSLS/DC) said it was against the proposal as it "did not want to turn the parliament into an investigating centre". MPs from the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) opposed the proposal, explaining that an investigation in the matter was unnecessary as the circumstances had changed with the awarding of the operating licence to the 'Treca Sreca" consortium.
Later in the day, opposition MPs also insisted on setting up a commission of enquiry to establish whether agents of the Counter-Intelligence Agency (POA) had violated laws and breached the human rights of reporter Helena Puljiz while interrogating her in October last year.
The proposal for the establishment of this commission, signed by 40 opposition MPs, was explained with the fact that three bodies which launched investigations in the POA scandal made different conclusions. The probes were conducted by the Office of the National Security Council, the parliamentary home affairs committee, and the Council for the Civilian Supervision of Secret Services.
The club of deputies of the ruling HDZ voiced strong opposition to the proposal for the commission of enquiry in the POA case.
Ivan Jarnjak of the HDZ said the commission would not establish anything new in comparison to findings of the said three bodies.
Jarnjak added that some amendments should be made to the Security Services Law explaining that no commission of enquiry was necessary for this job.
Opposition MPs responded by claims that the case of reporter Puljic could not be closed only with the departure of Josko Podbevsek from the post of the POA head.
Opposition MPs went on to say that the Council for Civilian Supervision and the parliamentary home affairs committee had not obtained relevant data which might help them to establish unequivocally whether there had been irregularities during the interrogation of the reporter Puljiz, and that's why a parliamentary commission of enquiry would be necessary.