Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) parliamentary deputy Drazen Bosnjakovic said on Friday that establishing an inquiry commission, as proposed recently by the Opposition, was not acceptable, underscoring that there are other bodies within which solutions can be found for investigation leaks.

Presenting the HDZ position, Bosnjakovic said that the motion proposed by the Opposition was too broad and generalised, which was in contravention with the law on inquiry commissions.

“Also the method of summoning judges and state prosecutors to appear before the commission has never been seen in any parliament,” Bosnjakovic said.

Admitting that there was a problem with information leaks in investigations, the HDZ MP said that “investigation leaks in a specific case cannot be the subject matter of an inquiry commission. There are agencies, defined by the Constitution and laws, to deal with those matters,” Bosnjakovic said.

In this context he mentioned the parliamentary Judiciary Committee, Home Affairs Committee, or the national council in charge of monitoring the implementation of the anti-corruption strategy.

The MP dismissed a claim from the Opposition that Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic should step down as he had not known of the investigation in the Janaf scandal.

“The premier does not need to resign. He has made it clear that he did not know (about the preliminary probe), law experts have said that politicians should not know about that (preliminary probes are underway),” said Bosnjakovic.