Stazic insists that HTV news programme editor Hloverka Novak-Srzic and the director-general of the national broadcasting corporation (HRT) should step down after they "turned the public television into the HDZ bulletin" when broadcasting Sanader's speech on Saturday afternoon.
The law on electronic media stipulates that public media should be unbiased, and it bans political parties' sponsorship of any TV show and their advertisement on the HTV except during the pre-election periods, Stazic said adding that "yesterday's advertisement was provocatively obvious and brazen".
"This was not a speech by the Prime Minister, as Sanader was relieved from the duty on Thursday. It was a highly emotionally-charged speech by a former HDZ leader imbued with insults against the SDP," Stazic said.
He went on to say that the the television editors gave a thinly-veiled reason for this move when claiming that the speeches would be aired because of great public interest.
Asked whether the SDP would ask now the HTV to cover SDP intra-party elections, he said that his party would ask nobody to violate laws.