The Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) wants to know if new Finance Minister Martina Dalic and Deputy Prime Minister for Investment Domagoj Ivan Milosevic are true reformers or just pretty faces of the coalition government until elections, because for the sake of Croatian citizens we do not want that time to be wasted, HSLS leader Darinko Kosor said at a press conference in Zagreb on Thursday.
"We don't want to spread defeatism and depression, but we expect results," Kosor.
"We expect Finance Minister Dalic to propose a budget revision by March 1, because it is clear that the government will have to borrow an additional 25 billion kuna. We think it should be her first move, because otherwise one can ask what is the point of the change at the helm of the Finance Ministry? We believe that it would not be good to maintain the bad continuity of former Finance Minister Suker. Minister Dalic should clearly say what the actual state of public finances is and which social programmes can be financed," Kosor said.
"We expect Deputy Prime Minister for Investment Milosevic to present by February 1 his team for attracting investment, because we do not expect him to do it and to implement reforms on his own," Kosor said, adding that his party also expected Milosevic to work on "breaking the anti-enterprise climate."
Kosor proposed adopting a law on payment deadlines, reducing income tax, and exemption from tax on reinvested profit.
