Hebrang signed a book of condolence opened in the Parliament building in memory of retired general Djuro Brodarac, a former HDZ official and MP who had died in Osijek on Wednesday, saying among other things that Brodarac had given everything for Croatia, while the country had not given him any credit, and that his death showed that Croatia was steering in a wrong direction.
Seks said that the death of Brodarac, "a man who made a great contribution to the establishment and defence of Croatia", caused grief in Croatia, and that the HDZ offered deep and heartfelt condolences to his family.
Another HDZ parliamentarian, Frano Matusic, said that Croatia was definitely not going in a wrong direction. "Is the European Union a wrong direction?" Matusic countered in his address to reporters.