While the Peasant Party (HSS) and the Party of Rights (HSP) supported the IDS proposal, stating that the fund containing the shares of state-owned companies would not become a reality, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and the Pensioners Party (HSU) said that the establishment of the fund was the only way to justly compensate the pensioners.
Damir Kajin of the IDS criticised the HDZ and the HSU, stating that the government did not intend to pay its debt to pensioners, which he said was evidenced by the non-implementation of their agreement under which pension allowances should amount to 50 percent of the average salary as of the start of this year.
Silvano Hrelja of the HSU dismissed Kajin's criticism, stating that pension allowances were decreasing because of the pension reform, adding that the HSU was actively negotiating about making corrections to the pension system.
The debate on the IDS's bill marked the end of today's sitting.
Earlier in the day, most parties supported in principle changes to the Law on Public Procurement moved by Social Liberal Party vice-president Djurdja Adlesic, which envisage parliamentary supervision over public procurement procedure thus eliminating the possibility of wrongdoing.
The HDZ opposed the bill, stating that one should wait for the government to move a bill on the matter which would be better and adjusted to EU standards.
The parliamentary opposition denied support to the government's bill on changes to the Law on the State Judicial Council (DSV), directing most criticism to the regulation under which nine of the 11 members of the DSV would be judges.
Under the bill, the DSV would continue to have 11 members, but nine of them would be judges, while only two members would be chosen from among university law professors and lawyers. Under the existing law, seven DSV members are judges.