However, the MPs do not interpret the case in the same way.
Three of them - Lucin, Ferencak and Kajin - support Mesic's request for the replacement of Counter-intelligence Agency (POA) chief Josko Podbevsek, while Kovacevic claims that differences between Mesic and Sanader had been transferred to parliament.
"The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) has taken Sanader's side, while the opposition, not including the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), has sided with Mesic," HSP member Kovacevic said at a joint news conference. He said that the committee's conclusions would not resolve anything and that suspicions would remain as to whether POA agents had acted lawfully. He called on the president of the republic and the prime minister to stop trading recriminations until the full truth was established.
The parliament's committee concluded today that POA employees had not acted unlawfully in the Puljiz case and that there was no legal reason to replace POA chief Podbevsek, which the opposition has disagreed with.
The four opposition MPs are unanimous that the report of the Office of the National Security Council makes it clear that POA agents had made professional mistakes, and request the Council to apologise to Puljiz.
Damir Kajin of the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) said that opposition members of the committee, not including Kovacevic, were agreed that an investigation into the entire intelligence system should be launched after presidential elections and that those committee members who shared responsibility for the poor situation in security services should tender their resignations.
"The report makes it 100 percent clear that the services have acted unprofessionally and violated the prescribed procedure and methodology," Croatian People's Party (HNS) member Ferencak said, adding that security services should make transcripts of the interviews they conducted.
Asked if they would launch procedure to bind security services to make recordings or transcripts of interviews, the four MPs answered affirmatively.