Commenting on a reporter's remark that the HDSSB (Croatian Democratic Party of Slavonia and Baranja) took most exception to a provision on referendums, Mlakar said the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) took exception to much more than the provisions.
Asked what it would take for the HDZ to endorse the constitutional amendments eventually, Mlakar said, "We think the whole procedure started on the wrong foot, that the motives for changing the Constitution were entirely wrong. We can't agree to the text of the amendments as it is. It undermines the rule of law, this state's legal security, and some other constitutional amendments undermine the concept of the civic state as conceived and formulated by the Constitution."