Speaking at the last session of her cabinet, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Friday they were leaving behind orderly finances and no skeletons in the closet which, she said, was being claimed by some journalists and members of the next government.
"We are leaving behind orderly finances and the big job that we did," Kosor said, adding that she would give the new government a book with reports on what every department of her cabinet had done.
"That's all the information on what we did in two and a half years as well as on all the projects we launched and which we suppose the new government will carry through."
"The foundation of this government's work was responsibility," Kosor said, adding that they managed to stabilise and restore order to public companies, imposing the obligation that every company adopt anti-corruption programmes and that public companies' supervisory boards comprised the best people and experts chosen through transparent public invitations for applications.
Kosor said that despite objections from the opposition, her cabinet amended the Pension Insurance Act and adopted the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which she said was showing the first results.
"In line with that law, the expenditure share in GDP will be reduced by one percentage point from 2010," she said, adding that said law was the foundation for all budget-related laws to be adopted in the years to come.
Commenting on this year's budget, Kosor said spending was frozen. "We were the first government to decide to enter election year with frozen state budget expenditures and we didn't promise what we thought was not realistic," she said, adding that, "The results are such that we can be proud of what we have done."
"We managed to kickstart investment. We are leaving behind HRK 20 billion of investment potential in what we launched this year. We broke down many investment barriers and one of the important activities in this context was the fight against corruption," said Kosor.
"I'm proud of the fact that we saw to Croatia's future in all the difficult years by earmarking HRK 4 billion in the state budget every year for maternity and child's allowances," she added.
"Nothing begins with us and nothing ends with us. Those who are coming have to know that nothing will begin tomorrow, just as nothing will end," Kosor told her successors.
Deputy PM Petar Cobankovic thanked her on behalf of all the ministers, saying her capacity and potential for work was sometimes difficult to follow.
"You raised the bar high and we had to run fast to catch up with you," he said.
Kosor closed the session by saying "see you again."
