Seks said that the statement was slanderous and called security to escort Buric out of the chamber, which they did.

During his address to the deputies, Buric said that the Constitutional Court had recently sent a report to Parliament drawing attention to an increased lack of legal security, legislative inconsistencies and infringements of the rule of law.

"In the present situation, when we are near closing the most demanding policy area, Chapter 23 (Judiciary and Fundamental Rights), the Croatian Parliament needs to take a stand on the views of the Constitutional Court," Buric said.

Buric accused Seks of numbering the revised articles of the Constitution without permission and in breach of the procedure, adding that the Constitutional Court described the move as unauthorised interference in the constitutional text. He said that the Constitutional Court had ordered the parliamentary Committee on the Constitution to publish a separate, revised version of the Constitution and to expunge all the revised versions.

Buric said that Seks was responsible because of 116 laws that Parliament had passed as many as 103 made references to wrong, and sometimes even non-existent, articles.

"I call upon you to resign from all duties in Parliament, apologise to all MPs and the entire public, and compensate for the cost of publication of a booklet on the Constitution at taxpayers' expense," Buric said, urging Seks to withdraw from politics for causing damage to the public.

Seks dismissed all the accusations, stressing that the decision to publish the revised Constitution had been adopted unanimously by the Committee on the Constitution and that he had only prepared the text. He announced that the Committee would meet on Thursday to discuss the differences with the Constitutional Court.