Continuing the debate that started yesterday, Zlatko Tomcic of the HSS accused the HDZ of failing to implement the privatisation process appropriately, of causing damage worth 100 billion kuna and sacking 400,000 workers.
Zdenka Babic Petricevic of the HDZ responded that Tomcic was making blanket accusations and that he had failed to punish criminal activities in the privatisation process at the time when he was a government minister and parliament speaker.
The parliament put on its agenda a request to establish a commission to investigate business contracts which Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and the resigning Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul signed with the government and state-owned companies since 1990 while holding different state offices.
Deputies of the People's Party (HNS) last night collected the remaining three signatures needed to request the establishment of the commission of enquiry after three opposition deputies withdrew their signatures from the request two weeks ago.
Today's debate on the auditors' report saw a precedent, Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks said, explaining that Social Democrat Miroslav Korenika had described him as brazen.
It is a precedent when a deputy tells the parliament speaker that he is brazen, Seks said, refusing to reprimand the SDP deputy.
After a break that was requested by the SDP, Korenika apologised to Seks.
In a debate leading to Korenika's reaction, the SDP deputy said that HDZ deputy Branimir Glavas was mentioned in a complaint about privatisation wrongdoings, which prompted Glavas to call Korenika a liar. Dissatisfied with Seks' failure to react to Glavas' statement, Korenika said that Seks was brazen.
The parliament today received numerous complaints by citizens objecting to lack of live coverage of the debate on the privatisation audit.
Some MPs indirectly referred to this problem, but Seks said that live coverage of parliamentary sessions was within the jurisdiction of the national television.