Lesar told reporters it was true that the previous government had not proposed a state property management strategy so parliament did not adopt it, but that this did not authorise the incumbent government, which did not propose one either, to privatise, grant concessions for or sell any state property without parliament's authorisation.
He criticised Finance Minister Slavko Linic's statement that the government was not a good owner so everything should be sold.
Lesar said his party had stated a number of times it was against the sale of the Croatian Postal Bank (HPB) and the Croatia Osiguranje (CO) insurance company because of the bad experience with the sale of the oil company INA, and accused the government of not having a strategy for the future of the national economy, including property management.
He said the motive for selling the HPB and the CO was to finance the budget deficit and not to make them stronger on the market.
In the letter to Milanovic, he said some ministers insisted that "the public sector is incompetent and that everything works better in private hands," adding that citizens would eventually pay for the fact that private companies would manage motorways.
Lesar accused the government of putting itself above parliament and of launching those processes when parliament was on a summer break to prevent political parties from discussing them.
Responding to a question from the press, he said that if the government did not respond to his letter within eight days, he would ask the parliament speaker to call the heads of the parliamentary groups for consultations on an extraordinary parliament session during the summer recess.