Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Racan said his party was opposed to constitutional changes "if the only reason is change of the date of the presidential election."
"This issue can be solved without changing the Constitution, and we are particularly confident that it should not be a reason for other changes to the Constitution," the leader of the strongest opposition party added.
Asked if the SDP agreed with the initiative launched by Prime Minister Sanader to include the Bosniak minority back in the Constitution, Racan said his party would not be against it if the Constitution were to be amended for major issues, but added that he did not consider the Bosniak issue "tough enough" to initiate constitutional changes.
Asked if they discussed the possibility of amending the constitutional provision regulating the procedure for sending Croatian army troops abroad, the SDP leader replied in the negative, stressing that the main topic discussed was Croatia's entry into the European Union.
Racan said he was concerned about the fact that more than half of the citizens were against integration, and that he made it clear to Sanader that he was worried about the marginalisation of the Parliament, which he said was greater now than it had been at the end of the Tudjman administration.
Government spokesman Ratko Macek said that Sanader and Racan talked about lobbying for Croatia in its negotiations with the EU as a non-partisan project and that they agreed to use all their connections and European party associations for that purpose.
Macek confirmed that the meeting also tackled constitutional changes, but that no agreement was reached, for which reason a new meeting was arranged to discuss this topic.