The SDP candidate said that the Croatian government first claimed that there existed no documents of that kind, then it said there was only one to later change this figure.

"The insistence by the Hague-based tribunal's prosecutors on artillery logs is, in my mind, their attempt to exit from an indictment which stands a poor chance of being sustained," Josipovic said during his meeting with residents of Sibenik.

As regards the issue of Transport Minister Bozidar Kalmeta who survived a no-confidence vote in the national parliament on Friday, Josipovic, whose party moved the vote of no confidence in Kalmeta, said that the government's denial of Kalmeta's political responsibility for wrongdoings in companies within the remit of his ministry harmed the credibility of the government led by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).

The HDZ presidential candidate, Andrija Hebrang, on Sunday visited the town of Karlovac on his campaign trail.

Hebrang told a rally in Karlovac that European countries had condemned Communist crimes through the "Resolution of the Council of Europe" and that Croatia had not yet dealt with that segment of its past which he described as unpleasant.

He also spoke about his participation in the Homeland Defence War.

The presidential candidate of the opposition Croatian People's Party (HNS), Vesna Pusic on Sunday visited Pula and some other towns in Istria.

On that occasion she said that by supporting the Transport Minister, the government assumed a part of his accountability for the situation in state-run companies such as Croatian Motorways and the Croatian Railways and in telecommunications sector.

According to Pusic, polemics between President Stjepan Mesic and the previous Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on the contract on relations between INA and MOL were not their recriminations.

She said that Sanader was trying to create an image that it was their mutual exchange of accusations in order to prevent the raising of questions how such a contract had been made.