The Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) on Tuesday accused the government and the ruling coalition of "partisan appointments" and "employing suitable and deserving party members in public institutions" as well as of an anti-ecological policy because it stopped the modernisation of the Sisak oil refinery and planned to build the Plomin 3 thermoelectric power plant.
HSS president Branko Hrg said "ministries and institutions are in collapse and chaos" because of the government's appointment policy.
He advocated a more stringent law on the transfer of authority which would clearly define who stayed and who left after a change of government.
HSS vice president Marijana Petir said the new government had stopped the modernisation of the refinery in Sisak in which the previous government, of which the HSS was part, had invested EUR 118 million.
The HSS director for energy, Ljubomir Majdandzic, said the construction of Plomin 3, which would use imported coal, was unacceptable, adding that gas was the energy source of the 21st century and that Croatia should exploit its renewables more.
