The vote was preceded by an hour and a half of heated debate.
Opposition MPs, particularly Social Democratic Party (SDP) members, accused the Ivo Sanader Cabinet of pushing Hina into an absurd situation.
The fact that the government simultaneously proposes the dismissal of four members (who were appointed to the board this summer) and the appointment of only one is interpreted by the Opposition as a lack of responsibility and negligence demonstrated by the current government.
SDP members of the committee - Zeljka Antunovic, the committee's chairwoman, and Antun Vujic - asked the government to resign for violating the procedure for the appointment of the four members to the Governing Council with three of them not having met the criteria for the posts.
According to Antunovic and Vujic, another reason why the Government should step down is the situation in which the national agency has now found itself. After the Sabor adopts the government's motion for the dismissal of the four members of the Governing Council, Hina will be without a governing body, they said.
"It is not members of the Governing Council who should be blamed for breaching the democratic procedure but the Government and the parliamentary majority who are now trying to conceal their accountability and get rid of those (four) people after they used them. If somebody should be relieved of duty it is the Government that is manipulating the parliament and democratic procedure," Antunovic said.
She went on to say that she was personally in favour of appointing Vladimir Lulic as the Hina staff representative, but she did not know how this can help Hina when he would be the only one member of the Council and in this context she claimed that in Hina "the freedom of journalistic profession has for some time been significantly jeopardised".
Jagoda Majska-Martincevic of the HDZ accused the SDP of petty politicking instead of trying to find a way out of this situation.
Majska-Marincevic praised the government for "halting the undemocratic process," referring to the recent decision of the Governing Council to appoint the agency's director although the council was without the employees' representative. She also commended the government for having admitted to have made a mistake which it is now trying to correct.
The SDP representatives retorted that the government had not admitted to the mistake it had made in July when it appointed, as they said, incompetent members to the Council.
Vujic also wondered what may happen if Smiljanka Skugor-Hrncevic, whom the four-member council recently appointed as Hina's new director, raised the question of damage done to her and who would cover the damage.
Addressing the HDZ, member of the People's Party (HNS) Antun Kapraljevic said: "Either Europe has rapped you over the knuckles, or this is about intra-party wrangling, or the trading is in question".
Kapraljevic explained that one of the above-mentioned reasons forced the government to make the "shameful decision" regarding Hina.
He and Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) member Luka Roic called on the government to propose five new nominees for Hina's Governing Council and to withdraw all the others.