Leader of the populist Most party, Bozo Petrov, said on Thursday that the party had managed to collected enough signatures for their referendum petition against Covid passes.

According to Croatian law, any petition asking for a nationwide referendum must collect signatures from 10 percent of all registered voters, or 368,446 unique signatures. The petition than needs to be deposited with the authorities whose job is to check whether this has been achieved.

On Thursday, Petrov told a news conference that they have collected 400,000 signatures and that they would deliver boxes with the petition to the national parliament on Friday, 24 January. MP Marija Selak-Raspudic said that she expected the referendum to be called.

If the petition is found to have collected the required number of signatures, the questions proposed for the referendum could be assessed by the Constitutional Court.

The Most party collected signatures for their two referendum petitions: one calls for the transfer of the powers of the national Covid-19 crisis management team to the parliament, where all the pertaining decisions on the Covid crisis management should be approved by a two thirds majority; and the other one which called for banning Covid passes.