"The Peljesac bridge is for all of us who think of Croatia more than a bridge connecting two Croatian areas," HDSSB MP Dinko Buric told a news conference in Zagreb.
He said that the bridge needn't be constructed within the set deadlines but the government should not have given up the plan for building it.
The bridge was planned to be built between the peninsula of Peljesac and the mainland in order to connect the southernmost Croatia with the rest of the country, circumventing the stretch of Bosnia-Herzegovina's coast.
The opposition politician said that by deciding not to sponsor any longer the Bleiburg commemorations the parliament showed that it did not care for Croatia's national interests.
In May 1945, after the victory of Tito's Partisans, thousands of soldiers of the Nazi-style Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and civilians had hoped to surrender to allied forces in Austria. However, they were returned and handed over by British forces to the Yugoslav Communist authorities and many were killed during death marches on their way back to Yugoslavia, while some were killed by the Partisans without trial in the Bleiburg field. In recent years, commemorations under the Croatian parliament's auspices were held in Bleiburg in mid-May.