Leko dismissed the request of the opposition party as "an unnecessary attempt to dramatise" given that the government had not yet made any decision on the sale of state companies or on concessions for state utilities, and had such decisions been made, they would have been in line with the law.

"I will not convene any consultations. Labour Party President Dragutin Lesar is unnecessarily dramatising about things that do not exist," Leko said.

"The government has not adopted any act directed at the sale or at allowing the operation of state companies or roads under a concession," Leko told Hina on the phone.

Earlier on Monday, the Labour Party's parliamentary bench sent a request to Leko to conduct consultations among parliamentary groups on convening an extraordinary parliamentary session in order to prevent "an unlawful situation and threat to the legal order of the Republic of Croatia caused by the government's moves regarding state property management."

The Labour Party said in a press release on Monday that the government's moves "are in contravention of the existing legal regulations".

It recalls that it already sent an open letter to the government a week ago to warn Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic and the Croatian public about the unlawfulness of the government's intent to sell major state-owned companies, such as the Croatia Osiguranje insurer and the Hrvatska Postanska Bank (HPB) and to grant concessions for the country's motorways.

This opposition party recalls that the state property management envisages that it is necessary to adopt acts and plans in order to manage the state assets in the legal manner.

Such plans and acts including strategies have not been adopted yet. This means that "legal requirements for the sale of the state property and for concessions for the transport infrastructure have not been met," the party said.