When asked by reporters why a bill on electoral re-districitng was not on the agenda of the government's session earlier in the day and to comment on the SDP leader Zoran Milanovic's accusations against the HDZ over gerrymandering, Milinovic said after the government's session that the SDP would lose the election in any case.
Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Pankretic of the Peasant Party (HSS), a junior partner in the ruling coalition, told reporters that he believed that the electoral redistricting had not been on today's agenda "for technical reasons".