After a five-hour discussion, 82 deputies voted for stripping Glavas of immunity, including Ivan Drmic and Vladimir Sisljagic, his colleagues from the club of deputies of the Croatian Democratic Assembly of Slavonia and Baranja (HDSSB).
Zlatko Kramaric of the Social Liberals (HSLS) abstained, while Party of Rights (HSP) deputies voted against.
During the discussion, Glavas reiterated that this was a political trial because he had parted ways with the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).
Although the majority of the clubs of deputies voted for stripping him of immunity so as to fully shed light on who was responsible for the killing of Serbs in the eastern city of Osijek in 1991, they pointed to the fact that 15 years had passed before an investigation was launched and that it was launched only after Glavas left the HDZ.
Anto Djapic of the HSP said the deputies should not ignore "the fact that this case contains explicit political elements".
He said an unheard-of media campaign had been waged against Glavas in recent months, that "the media have already sentenced" Glavas, and that the trial would once against raise the issue of Glavas's criminal responsibility.
Djapic said the HSP was against stripping Glavas of immunity not because it doubted his innocence but out of the conviction that this was a political and not legal issue.
Damir Kajin of the Istrian Democratic Party (IDS) said the Hague war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, had referred the Glavas case to Croatian courts.
Glavas said this was not true. "Now, when I've found myself in this situation, between this court and The Hague, I am ready to choose The Hague."
Parliament resumes its sitting tomorrow.