In twenty minutes, party members managed to donate three hundred loaves of bread in Zagreb's main square, underscoring that the number of citizens threatened by poverty was constantly rising.
Despite the fact that every third citizen in Croatia is living on the poverty margin, over 100 tonnes of bread and bakery products are thrown out every day and 400,000 tonnes of food a year, the LP said.
Labour Party members believe that the abolishment of VAT on donated food would motivate businesses and humanitarian activists to help those in need and the "poor would not have to rummage through waste bins for food," they said.
The Labour Party's programme advocates a socially more just society and not one government in Croatia has yet undertaken measures to more justly distribute national wealth, the party president Nensi Tirelli said.
A civil society group of activists on Friday urged the finance and agriculture ministries to revise legislation relating to food donations.
During a press conference in front of the parliament building, the group said that they wanted this subject to be put on the public agenda. Croatia's Constitution describes Croatia as a welfare state, yet those most vulnerable in society are systematically marginalised.
"Food donations are a complex problem and exposed to manipulation and misuse and we want the relevant ministries to find a long term sustainable solution for this issue," the group's coordinator, Zoran Grozdanov, said.
The relevant bodies need to find a model that will stimulate retail chains and producers to donate food where the use-by date has not expired.