"We will request in writing a debate in Parliament on the work of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and a no-confidence vote in Mladen Bajic," Perisa said at a press conference in Zagreb, following the statement by Bajic that the government-sponsored bill to declare certain legal acts of the former Yugoslav People's Army, the former Yugoslavia and Serbia null and void would frustrate further cooperation between the prosecutorial authorities of Croatia and Serbia.

Perisa said that parliament should vote no confidence in Bajic.

Speaking of the forthcoming parliamentary election, Perisa said that the HVIDR main board had decided at its meeting on September 20 that the association would give its unreserved support to the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).

He said that the HVIDR would not distance itself from the statement by its president and HDZ member of parliament, Josip Djakic, who, by alluding to the names of members of the SDP-led opposition coalition, said that he thought that it was a Serbian rather than a Croatian government that was being formed.

"We will not distance ourselves from that statement because no one spoke against the prime minister and HDZ president being called names in the media," Perisa said. He added that he agreed that people should not be discriminated against on ethnic grounds, but stressed that "the Serb minority in Croatia is not a sacred cow."