The Bridge caucus on Tuesday requested that government submit to parliament a report on the work of the national Covid response team before the introduction of measures under amendments to the law on the protection of the population from infectious diseases.

“The entire opposition has backed our request for a parliamentary debate on what the response team has done so far and this conclusion of ours will most probably be debated next week,” MP Nikola Grmoja told the press, adding that the response team “is subordinate to the government.”

He recalled that two months ago Bridge tabled a conclusion seeking that the government submit a report on the response team’s work, saying that representatives of every opposition party had backed the latest request with their signatures.

MP Marija Selak Raspudic said they demanded an in-depth analysts of the anti-Covid measures in Western Europe and Croatia’s neighbours as well as statistical data warranting the measures being introduced in Croatia.

She also called for a regional approach in the application of the restrictions as well as their consistent application, saying the current approach caused confusion and distrust among citizens.

She said restrictions which encroached on people’s rights and freedoms should be adopted by a two-thirds majority in parliament.

She said the amendments to the law on the protection of the population from infectious diseases allowed for the possibility of certain measures becoming valid retroactively in an attempt to cover up the chaos on the ground and legally baseless past measures.

The result is a state of legal uncertainty and possible lawsuits against the state as well as everything again ending up before the Constitutional Court, she added.