Speaking on Croatian Radio, Karamarko accused the government of changing its mind about the Peljesac bridge and being in conflict with the Constitutional Court. He said he had never attacked Milanovic personally.
He said the ruling coalition found every Constitutional Court decision ridiculous and that there was "a return to values which we thought were far behind us. It's a matter of a Central Committee decision, of toeing the line."
The opposition leader accused the ruling coalition of provoking ideological debates to hide their incompetence in tackling economic problems, and Milanovic of "calling Belgrade for help because in Croatia he has a nationalist opposition."
He again dismissed the possibility of forming a "big coalition" with the SDP, saying he did not want a coalition with a party in which he noticed "a return to a Yugo-nostalgic past." He said the "SDP isn't developing towards a contemporary European social democracy" and that it "shows signs of Yugo-nostalgia and Yugo-philia, which is sad."
Karamarko said a big coalition was impossible also because Milanovic "insists on an experimental government which has failed... Milanovic rejected the invitation to reshuffle the government and proclaimed his team the best in the world. If this is what his first team is like, what are the second and the third ones like?"
He once again called for an early parliamentary election in May.
Karamarko gave the ruling coalition a failing grade for the first half of its term, saying he saw nothing good in the government's work. He said the economy was about to crash, the jobless rate was record-high, and people lived increasingly poorly. "The paradox is that Mr. Milanovic believes he has done a good job," he said, reiterating that the ruling coalition was leaving behind a "scorched land".
As for the fact that the HDZ is on trial for corruption, he said he represented "a party that started the fight against corruption and that previously, as interior minister and police commissioner, he had launched anti-corruption processes. "I don't want to accept liabilities, least of all collective responsibility. Someone will constantly try to call the party's 220,000 members thieves only because the incumbent government isn't capable of doing anything."
He asked about the property of the former Communist Alliance of Croatia and "all the criminal activities done by the party which (the SDP) succeeded." He also said that the regime's media were pushing the argument about the HDZ as "a party in the dock."
Karamarko once again criticised President Ivo Josipovic for not convening a government session to recap what had been done over the past two years and "crystallise" the direction Croatia should take.
He does not believe that the economy will grow next year as predicted by some financial institutions and the government.
He said the HDZ would not endorse constitutional amendments in January, describing them as disastrous for Croatia. As for the extradition of former secret agent Josip Perkovic to Germany, where he is wanted for the 1983 murder of Croatian dissident Stjepan Djurekovic, he said the court should decide if the statute of limitations had expired, "and not Josipovic and Milanovic."