During their drive to collect signatures for calling a referendum against the government-sponsored amendments to the Labour Act (ZOR), five trade union federation mustered 228,624 signatures in Zagreb, a union leader, Mario Ivekovic, said at a news conference on Friday.
He said that these were provisional figures and that they would rise with the processing of the data from all places where signatures were collected in the Croatian capital.
According to Ivekovic this means, that nearly 30 percent of the electorate in Zagreb had supported the unions' campaign.
Commenting on Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor's statement that to organise the referendum would require some HRK 170 million, as much was spent on the last presidential elections, Ivekovic said the trade unions would be able to "perfectly organise" the referendum with half that amount.
"Shame on them for scaring in that way the Croatian citizens who have demonstrated resoluteness," Ivekovic said referring to the premier's statement that funds to be allocated for the referendum would require a budget revision and consequently the reduction of some other entitlements.
