Arsen Bauk of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) asked Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor in parliament on Wednesday what she was referring to when warning about the danger of a "red Croatia," saying it was time former members of the Communist Party, such as Kosor, stopped with such warnings.
"I was referring to threats with razors, the threats you are making and in which the SDP sets itself as investigator, judge and executioner," Kosor told Bauk during Question Time.
"Your intention to ban the HDZ (ruling party) and send us all to (prison)... that's the red Croatia we lived in and which disappeared forever," said Kosor.
She reproached the SDP for walking out in June 1991 as parliament was deciding on Croatia's independence, saying "the HDZ which created Croatia won't allow the red Croatia that your comrades dream about."
"Your comrades with bags caused much more damage to Croatia than some with razors," Bauk countered, referring to slush funds. He said those who were members of the former Communist Party, such as Kosor, must stop warning about the "red danger".
Ranko Ostojic of the SDP asked Kosor if she attended the meeting at which the HDZ Presidency was deciding about "turning over" management rights in the Croatian oil company INA to Hungary's MOL.
Kosor said she attended all HDZ Presidency sessions but that this body never made a decision as the one mentioned in the indictment in the INA-MOL case filed by the Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK).
