Addressing parliament president Vladimir Seks at the beginning of the session, opposition deputies said that the Sabor Presidency had decided at a session before the ongoing parliamentary sitting to discuss the IMF and the Memorandum on Economic and Financial Policies in the second week of the sitting, which they said was now nearing the end of its third week.
"We believe that the reason for skipping this issue is not the fact that the government has not submitted its opinion on the matter," said Milanka Opacic of the Social Democrats.
The government and the HDZ do not want to discuss the issue so they do not have to explain why living costs in Croatia have gone up by 400 kuna since the HDZ came into power and why they agreed with the IMF to cancel zero VAT rate for bread and milk, Opacic said.
Sabor President Vladimir Seks said that under the Sabor's Rules of Procedure only he, as parliament president, could decide on the agenda and that the session of the Sabor Presidency in question had the character of consultations, rather than adopting a firm decision on the agenda.