HSP STANDS BY ITS MP

ZAGREB, March 6 (Hina) - The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) entirely supports its MP Tonci Tadic and his criticism forwarded to the government's "devastating" policy towards the Krsko Nuclear Power Plant, party president Anto Djapic told a news conference held in parliament Thursday. #L# Commenting on yesterday's claims by Libra's bench that Tadic's statement made at a session of the economy committee was a scandalous outburst of hatred and threats, Djapic said Tadic's speech had a metaphoric character. He said the government tried to publicly slander him instead of reacting to its political and economic fiasco in the nuclear power plant case. Addressing parliament's economy committee on Tuesday, Tadic said that everything the government, and especially Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic and Assistant Economy Minister Roman Nota, had done concerning the Slovene co-owned Krsko nuclear power plant "may be described as collaboration". "If we were in power we would put you on trial. It's sheer luck we're not at war because you know how collaborationists would fare," Tadic said at the session. (hina)it sb