Seks said on national radio that a recent assault on a Financial Agency branch office in Zagreb, in which two security guards were brutally killed, indicated that organised crime was always a step ahead of law enforcement agencies.
Seks said this was why the police needed greater authority and better equipment and that therefore "some civic freedoms will have to be sacrificed".
Speaking of the forthcoming parliament session, Seks said next week's discussion on privatisation and ownership transformation reports was expected to lead to a discussion on a new privatisation law.
Commenting on the announcement by the Croatian Pensioners' Party (HSU) that it would withhold its support to the government unless the pension reform was completed, Seks said he doubted that.
"This government settled the most traumatic legacy from the war -- the debt to pensioners," he said, adding the government was consulting the HSU and pensioners' associations about the model of adjusting pensions to salaries, which pensioners are unhappy with.
Asked by listeners if MPs would cancel their privileged pensions, as moved by the People's Party (HNS), Seks said that according to his information, numerous rulings as well as opposition MPs were against such "radical changes".
He underlined that among the 176,000 beneficiaries of privileged pensions there were only 330 members of parliament, the government and Constitutional Court judges, whose pensions are 8,000 kuna on average.
Seks said he had still not received the Social Democratic Party's (SDP) announced proposal for a no-confidence vote in Deputy Prime Minister Damir Polancec and the entire government over the Liburnija privatisation scandal. He added SDP leader Ivica Racan had evidently scrapped the proposal he had "so haughtily" announced.
Later today, Racan commented by saying the SDP had not scrapped the proposal. He said the strongest opposition party would not move the no-confidence discussion at the start of the upcoming parliament session, but would do so when it judged the time was right and without previous announcement.
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