The DC said it was confident that the Croatian People's Party (HNS), when appointing Antun Kapraljevic as Commission chairman, had found a way of preventing a probe into conflict-of-interest claims against former HNS construction minister Radimir Cacic.
As Commission chairman, Kapraljevic had a chance to reaffirm politics as an activity for the common good, but instead, by analysing bizarrely trivial data on state officials, he "fully compromised the idea and purpose of the Commission and showed what kind of politics and politicians were being offered by the Croatian People's Party," the statement said.
By defending his obstruction of the Commission, he systematically politicised its work, accusing the Government and the Parliament, it added.
"Instead of reporting what he and the Commission had done to prevent conflict of interest in the case of his party colleague and former minister Cacic, Kapraljevic reported on the names, children, marital status, age, signs of the horoscope and other trivial data about state officials," the DC said.
The party also said that the composition of the Commission was technically and politically a secondary issue and that the main issue was how well it was doing its job.
The DC is led by Justice Minister Vesna Skare Ozbolt.