The leader of the largest opposition party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Tomislav Karamarko, on Friday said in Osijek that the distancing of the Croatian People's Party (HNS), as a ruling coalition partner of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), from a proposal to introduce a real estate tax meant that there was a crisis in the government.
Karamarko was visiting his party's Osijek branch celebrating 23 years since being founded and was asked by reporters if this latest move by the HNS meant there was a crisis in the government.
"Absolutely, they have been in crisis since they formed. I am glad that the HNS has backed the HDZ in seeing that this tax doesn't come through", he said.
He criticised that the new tax would impoverish a wide section of the population and that this was "an aggressive move".
"The government has not been capable the entire year to launch even one investment cycle and now is trying to bridge the gaps in the budget in the most brutal manner, because this is a brutal attack on Croatian citizens", said Karamarko.
