During a news conference in the eastern city of Osijek, the leaders of the party, whose acronym in Croatian is HDSSB, called on Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic to step down over the latest developments regarding the Glavas case.
The party chief, Kresimir Bubalo, who is Osijek-Baranja County Prefect, said that everything that had happened during yesterday's session of the parliamentary Credentials and Privileges Commission was harmful for Croatia and its judiciary.
According to Bubalo, the session reflected the ultimate goal of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) to ensure all prerequisites "for the apprehension of a Croatian army general and member of parliament, who chairs the Osijek City Council, in a politically rigged trial".
Bubalo claimed that all acts of pressure exerted by the Office of the Chief Prosecutor were actually HDZ-orchestrated moves. In this context, he said that the HDZ could not forgive the fact that at the last elections "they were the biggest losers, and the HDSSB a force accepted by the impoverished region of Slavonia and Baranja".
Branimir Glavas attended the news conference but did not address the press.
After the conference, asked by reporters whether the police had searched his flat earlier in the day, Glavas said that they had announced that they would do it at 0800 am today, "but they did not come and I am expecting them later in the day".
I assume that they are looking for compromising materials and I expect them to plant something on me, Glavas said.
He criticised the police for what he called unfair conduct as they had been staying in front of the door of his flat yesterday.