ZAGREB, 16 Nov 2021 - The opposition MOST party said on Tuesday it was starting to collect signatures for a referendum against the COVID certificate mandate to access the workplace and state and public institutions.
MOST president Božo Petrov said on Facebook the party had consulted legal experts and that it was formulating the referendum question.
MOST "is firmly standing up for the defence of constitutional values" and "will not allow our constitutional rights to be breached by arbitrary decisions" of the national COVID crisis management team "which acts as a para-political body," according to the post.
Vice president Nikola Grmoja said in parliament the certificates were pointless and could not be a means to prevent the infection from spreading, only an instrument to coerce vaccination.
He said decisions to that effect must be passed by parliament, not the national crisis management team. "We are against discrimination and dividing people. Why should some get tested and others not?"
