"It is absolutely clear that we must obtain money from abroad and that we must receive the support of HNB (Croatian National Bank) Governor Zeljko Rohatinski, and all of this requires an additional cutting move with cuts of a minimum seven to eight billion (kuna) to 11 billion in real terms," Cacic told a news conference in Zagreb on Monday.
The HNS chief said that this was what Rohatinski told the new Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and that foreign creditors said there would be not even a cent available for borrowing.
Commenting on the budget revision planned at some 0.6 percent, Cacic said that this could not be branded even as "cosmetic changes", saying that "this is actually a statistical error, this is nothing".
HNS official Dragan Kovacevic said the Kosor cabinet was not proposing a revision of the budget but only technical changes of the budget "with no vision or a goal".
Kovacevic holds that the budget capacity must not be above HRK 90 billion.
The HNS representatives said the party would propose its candidate for the presidential election in the next two weeks.
Cacic said the HNS "was and still is a party of strong personalities" that already nominated the victorious candidate, referring to the incumbent President Stjepan Mesic, who was a HNS member and decided to suspend his party membership while being in the office of the President of the Republic.