Croatian Parliament Speaker, Gordan Jandrokovic, said on Saturday that the ruling majority wanted to continue functioning stably and that stronger state institutions, economic development and greater social solidarity would continue to be the ruling majority's priorities despite the fact that it had been slim from the very beginning.

Commenting on a reporter’s remark that the parliamentary majority was in a situation in which it could be blackmailed by any parliament member over any decision, Jandrokovic said that the majority had functioned very well for the past year and a half and would continue to do so until the end of its term.

Asked about HDZ Presidency member Darko Milinovic’s staging a protest at the party headquarters earlier this week over delays of elections for the head of the HDZ branch in Lika-Senj County, in which he is a candidate, and the party’s decision to launch disciplinary proceedings against him, Jandrokovic said that he had nothing to add to the party leadership’s decision.

Asked what position the HDZ leadership would take if Milinovic won the elections, Jandrokovic said that there was nothing personal about the disagreement with Milinovic and that his behaviour constituted a violation of the party’s main principles.

Asked if he feared the publication of a book authored by former economy minister Martina Dalic, who stepped down following the publication of private e-mail correspondence between her and the consultants and lawyers who had worked on the law on emergency administration in systemic companies (Lex Agrokor), or what Ivica Todoric, former owner of the ailing Agrokor food and retail conglomerate, might say, Jandrokovic said that he did not because he knew what had happened.

“The public was informed in part or in full… I don’t believe anything new could come up, but attempts will be made by our political rivals and those who want to see Agrokor go down or have some other scenario for it,” he said, among other things.