Pasalic told a news conference that what Marcinko, a former Croatian Television editor, said in the interview with Vecernji List, could serve as a good initiative for the government to move a lustration bill.
On Monday Mesic said that he believed that Pasalic, a former member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) who used to be portrayed as the party's hawk and who in the meantime established a right-wing party, was behind the interview.
It is not accidental that the interview has appeared now, Mesic said.
Marcinko said in the interview that he had a list of former agents of ex-Yugoslavia's intelligence services who are still employed with the Croatian national broadcasting company (HRT).
Pasalic said today that he had supported the move made by Marcinko.
"The Government and the President of the Republic should address this problem because former members of UDBA and KOS are interspersed among all segments of Croatian society," Paslic said adding that he did not know why those in power would not launch lustration proceedings unless they feared for their future.