About 200 citizens, associations and initiatives have contacted the Public Administration Ministry about seeing the books with the signatures collected for two referendum petitions and they will be allowed to do so soon, Minister Lovro Kuscevic said on Saturday.
Never in the history of referendum petitions has a government been as transparent as in the case of the last two. The government compiled a precise, thorough and objective report and sent it to parliament, he said in Hvar.
He was commenting on the announcement of the People Decide initiative, which collected signatures for a referendum to change election legislation, that it will press charges against an unknown person for abuse of office and stealing the books during the signature counting.
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“Had we not been so transparent, we wouldn’t have enabled access, for which one could apply until yesterday. About 200 citizens, associations and initiatives applied. In coordination with the Information Systems and Information Technologies Support Agency and the Personal Data Protection Agency, we will organise the access and the entire Croatian public can rest assured that we have done everything transparently and in line with Croatian law,” Kuscevic said, referring to access to see signatures that have been declared invalid.
He said everyone who applied would be able to see every invalid signature to corroborate what the government had made public.
