"Is that the same party that called us cattle, while the closest associates of Jadranka Kosor called MPs fools, drunks, commies, UDBA (Yugoslav secret service) agents or advised them to stick to the dancing pole. And now Jadranka Kosor is preaching to us about inappropriate speech in Parliament," said Beus Richembergh.

He went on to ask HDZ MPs what kind of message they think they had sent by siphoning money from public companies. "Is it my imagination or a lot of HDZ members are on trial, including the party itself. What kind of message do you think you have sent to young people by doing so, did you maybe want to tell them that they should be in politics because there is money there that can be easily siphoned and spent for private or party purposes? Maybe that message is little more harmful than the one by Minister Jovanovic," said Beus Richembergh.

Vladimir Seks of the HDZ accused Beus Richembergh of breaching the Standing Orders, criticising session chair Nenad Stazic of the SDP for allowing Beus Richembergh to insult HDZ deputies.

Both Seks and Kosor said they would ask the Committee on the Constitution and Standing Orders to determine if Richembergh's remarks and Stazic's failure to respond to them were in violation of the Standing Orders.

Stazic said that Beus Richembergh did not insult HDZ deputies but was stating his party's position.

Minister Zeljko Jovanovic dismissed accusations from the HDZ that he had planned the budget for his ministry poorly, adding that decisions, notably those concerning school curricula, would not be made hastily and that they would guarantee good education for young people.

Zoran Vinkovic of the regional HDSSB party said not only Jovanovic but the entire government should be given a vote of no confidence. "The government's platform, Agenda 21, is now only a dead letter, it was a deception of voters and MPs regardless of whether they voted for the platform or not."