Speaker says citizens very much interested in Parliament House Open Day

Zagreb - On the occasion of Croatian Parliament Day, Speaker Gordan Jandroković on Saturday expressed satisfaction with citizens' great interest in visiting the Sabor on Parliament House Open Day.

The parliament on Saturday marked its day in memory of 8 October 1991, when it adopted a historic decision to sever all state and legal ties with the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, whereby Croatia became an independent state.

After a two-year break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, this year members of the public were again able to visit the parliament on its doors-open day, sit in the parliament chamber and ask questions.

Jandroković said that they expressed dissatisfaction with situations when MPs quarrel and insult one another and called for ordering MPs disrespecting rules of parliamentary debate to a bench that would be intended for those violating parliamentary rules instead of removing them from the chamber.

They also objected to non-attendance of parliamentary sessions and inquired when pension allowances would be increased, when the process of post-earthquake reconstruction would become faster, as well as about better care for children with disabilities and about the protection of the Croatian language, he said.