Asked to comment on Cacic's statement that the HDZ was a party which robbed and impoverished the country and which is on trial and that it should not talk about corruption, Karamarko said: "It is unbelievable that there is not end to Mr Cacic's overbearing behaviour and impudence. Who is he to decide and determine who can comment on what in this country."

"I must remind Mr Cacic that I, the incumbent HDZ president, have started the fight against crime corruption on two occasions: in 1994 when I was a young chief of police - the city cellars case, the Croatiabus case etc. Where were they? Crawled in a rat hole. And in 2008 when my cabinet launched the fight against corruption. Where was Mr Cacic. In a rat hole," Karamarko told reporters in the southern town of Solin ahead of the session of the HDZ Presidency and the National Council.

"He (Cacic) has no right to forbid anyone to speak in a democratic country about corruption and crime and about wrong government moves... My advice to him is to be a little more modest, a little less overbearing and a little more self-critical, because what they offered to the people in these past eight months is nothing, depression," Karamarko said commenting on Cacic's statement about the HDZ.