After bringing to parliament over 400,000 signatures for two referendum petitions, MPs of the populist Most party said on Monday that by signing the petition "the citizens had sent a clear message saying that they expected a referendum against Covid certificates and the national Covid crisis management team."

They also said they expected the questions proposed to get aproval by the Constitutional Court. “The reasons are good and detailed, so I don’t see how the questions could be found unconstitutional,” Most party vice-president, Nikola Grmoja, told reporters.

He said that the town of Sinj, where their MP Miro Bulj serves as mayor, is the only town in Croatia were the certificates are not mandatory, and that this showed that “Most party would never agree to irrational measures.”

“Many bragged, many said they were against Covid certificates, but in the end they knelt and had to agree to them after the law was changed,” he said, adding that this was not just a political, but also a moral victory.

Party leader Bozo Petrov said it was good that monitors would be present at the signature counting, adding that those in power “had to give in this time” due to public pressure. MP Marija Selak-Raspudic said the referendum petitions were already successful, as even tighter Covid restrictions had not been imposed ever since the petition had been launched.

“The certificates might be abolished even before the referendum so that those in power don’t experience ‘a slap against their policy,'” she added poetically.