He told reporters in the eastern town that the president, the parliament speaker and the prime minister "were scared by lanterns and gave up" from walking in the procession of remembrance from Vukovar's hospital to the Homeland War Victims Memorial Cemetery.
Josic said the wartime commanders of Vukovar's defence, Branko Borkovic and Mile Dedakovic, were in the state leadership's column yet they managed to get to the cemetery, wondering how the state leaders could have been "blocked."
"At one moment they just stopped, turned around, left, leaving the flag bearers, and started spreading untruths," he said.
Initiative member Snjezana Patko said the Initiative had launched a website at www.referendum-vukovar.com with information about a referendum to proclaim Vukovar a place of special reverence, for which the Initiative is collecting signatures until December 1.
The Initiative's lawyer, Vlado Iljkic, said he was displeased that the collection of signatures was being prevented in some parts of Istria County, citing Istria as an example of how to deal with relations in a local community.
Bilingualism functions in Istria because it was not imposed by force but was dealt with in the community, he added.
Iljkic said PM Zoran Milanovic did not want to see the truth but intended to "give everything short shrift," which he said was typical of totalitarian thinking.