"This is an open arena... we are not buying people. I'm not saying that you are, I am only calling for conscience and responsibility so that your partners could be aware that they are doing Croatia harm every day. Your government is Croatia's problem," Milanovic told Kosor.

He also dismissed Kosor's statement that he had said that anyone could be the Chief State Prosecutor, stressing that he had stated and still believed that there was a number of candidates for that position. "It's a loner's job which is not done... on political orders," Milanovic said.

The SDP chief also disagreed with the PM that Croatia getting 12 seats in the European Parliament and one seat in the European Court of Justice after its admission to the EU was a success.

"Any country that joins the EU gets that. It's as if you said that Croatia will get the Sabor (parliament)."

Commenting on the PM's claims that by opposing the painful cuts her government was making, the SDP was annulling those efforts, Milanovic asked what painful cuts the government was making.

He accused the government of having politicised the police, which he said resulted in charges having been pressed against SDP officials which in most cases were turned down by the prosecution.

Taking the floor after Kosor's address and a number of rebuttals it provoked from SDP deputies, Milanovic said that by citing breaches of Standing Orders the HDZ deputy parliament speakers Ivan Jarnjak and Vladimir Seks were taking over the role of Parliament Speaker Luka Bebic.

"This is immoral, this desecrates this institution," said Milanovic, whose accusations were dismissed by both Seks and Jarnjak, as well as by Bebic, who said that he was chairing over the session in a fair manner, considering the circumstances.

What those circumstances were like was best evidenced by the fact that due to numerous rebuttals and breaches of Standing Orders, individual debates started more than three hours after the beginning of the main debate.

Using said instruments of the Standing Orders, SDP and HDZ MPs traded accusations of the untruthful presentation of the situation in the country and political responsibility for it. Responding to accusations from the SDP, that the HDZ was bringing disgrace on Croatia and that its government should step down, HDZ MPs said such accusations were unacceptable.

Josip Salapic of the HDZ said that by requesting debates such as today's the Opposition was only preventing the government from dealing with important problems in the country.

His party colleague Frano Matusic dismissed claims that the HDZ was a corrupt party, saying that the SDP was not immune to corruption either. In that context, he recalled the sale of hotels in Dubrovnik to businessman Goran Strok, the case of Viktor Lenac shipyard, and the case of the Trznice Rijeka company.

Responding to the Prime Minister's sentence that she would do everything possible for Croatia and would not give Croatia up at any cost, Dragutin Lesar of the Croatian Labour Party said, "You don't have to do everything possible, resignation will suffice."