ZAGREB, August 30, 2018 - Public Administration Minister Lovro Kuščević said on Thursday that representatives of civil initiatives would not be allowed to monitor the checking of signatures collected for referendum petitions but that a contract would be signed with a company to do it.

ZAGREB, August 2, 2018 - The government on Thursday instructed the Public Administration Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior to verify the number and authenticity of signatures collected by the "Truth about the Istanbul Convention" initiative and the "People Decide" initiative and to check if the signatures for the petition against the Convention were collected in line with the law.

ZAGREB, July 28, 2018 - The People Decide civil initiative on Friday expressed concern that the government had still not decided to count and verify signatures collected to call a referendum on changing the election law and said that it had sent an appeal to European institutions regarding the "undermined independence of the referendum process."

ZAGREB, June 13, 2018 - Representatives of the civil initiative The People Decide on Wednesday delivered to parliament 38 boxes with 405,342 signatures for a referendum question to amend election legislation and 407,469 signatures for a question depriving national minority representatives of the right to decide on the formation of the government and the state budget.

ZAGREB, June 11, 2018 - The civil initiative "The truth about the Istanbul Convention" said on Monday that it had collected 377,635 signatures for a referendum on cancelling the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence which, it said, was a sufficient number of signatures.

ZAGREB, June 4, 2018 - Croatian Serb leader Milorad Pupovac said in an interview with the Večernji List daily that the Serb minority and the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) whose leader he is have been used as the key argument to persuade people to give their signatures for the referendum petition launched by "People Decide" civic group.

ZAGREB, June 3, 2018 - President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović repeated on Sunday that she did not want to comment on the content of the question of a recently completed campaign for a referendum to change the election law, but that she believed the will of the people should be respected, adding that her meeting with Željka Markić, leader of the conservative “In the Name of the Family” civic group, unofficially one of the organisers of one of the two recent referendum campaigns, was not a secret meeting.

ZAGREB, June 2, 2018 - Commenting on referendum campaigns launched by civic groups, President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović said on Saturday that she did not interfere in referendums but that she strongly believed that the will of the people had to be respected.

ZAGREB, May 31, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković commented on Thursday on the announcement which “The People Decide “ civil initiative made earlier today, namely that their petition had enough signatures for a referendum to be called, saying that the authorities need to verify if the signatures were collected properly and whether it was done in accordance with the Constitution.

ZAGREB, May 31, 2018 - "The People Decide" civil initiative on Thursday revealed the number of signatures it had collected for the holding of a referendum on changes to the election system, announcing it would forward the signatures to parliament in about ten days.