"Citizens should be told what they can expect over the next two years," Racan said at a press conference in Zagreb, adding that SDP members of Parliament would be supported in their request by Peasant Party (HSS) deputies.
The SDP leader said that the arrangement with the IMF envisaged speedy privatisation of the entire state portfolio, and expressed fear that privatisation might be carried out in the same way as it had been in the early 1990s.
Racan recalled that while the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was in opposition it explicitly demanded a parliamentary debate on a stand-by arrangement with the IMF in March 2002, when the Parliament decided that a debate should be conducted before signing the arrangement.