Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Sunday that the leader of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS), Milorad Pupovac, should have informed her about indictments from Serbia if he had known about them earlier.
"I don't know where Mr Pupovac got all the information. As you know, the vice-president of his party sits on the government, so if they had information on the indictments, Mr Pupovac or Mr (Slobodan) Uzelac, should have told me so," Kosor said, adding that this was about the scoring of political points.
Pupovac said on Saturday that Serbian indictments against some 40 Croatian nationals, including Deputy Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks, had been discussed previously by Croatian Justice Minister Drazen Bosnjakovic and his Serbian counterpart Snezana Malovic, so he did not understand why it had not been made public before.
Asked to comment on Pupovac's statement that his party, currently a junior partner in the HDZ-led coalition government, felt closer to the Social Democratic Party, Kosor said: "One should not be surprised by anything in politics, the more so as Mr Pupovac is now fighting for the votes of the Serb national minority."
PM Kosor was answering reporters' questions after a pilgrimage of the Croatian military and police forces to the shrine of Marija Bistrica.
