Eight members of parliament never spoke during the autumn session

(Patria) - In the roughly forty days of the autumn session of the Croatian Parliament, which ended on December 15, about 40 MPs took the floor ten times or fewer, and eight of them never spoke.

On the other hand, ten MPs spoke in the chamber a hundred times or more.

The most frequent speakers were MPs Dalija Orešković (194) from the Party with a Name and Surname, Marija Selak Raspudić (171) from Most, and Anka Mrak Taritaš (156) from Glas, according to data from the Croatian Parliament.

They are followed by Most's Miro Bulj (128), Social Democrat Domagoj Hajduković (117), Most's Nikola Grmoja (116), DP's Davor Dretar (105), Most's Marin Miletić (104), and SDP's Andreja Marić (103) and Sabina Glasovac (100).

Very close to the hundred mark are Workers' Front MP Katarina Peović (98), Sovereignist Marijan Pavliček, and HDZ's Majda Burić and Josip Borić, who each spoke 96 times.

Given that these data are not final because debates up to December 6 have been processed, and the Parliament sat until December 15, it is possible that the order will be somewhat different after all debates are processed.

However, it is already clear that the first place won in the spring session of parliament has been lost by Social Democrat Željko Pavić, and with 31 interventions, he will not even approach the top ten.

Orešković, who was second in the spring, moved up to first place, while Mrak Taritaš retained third place.

MPs who have not felt the need to speak at all since mid-September are HDZ's Dražen Barišić and Ivan Budalić, Goran Dodig (HDS), and independents Vladimir Bilek, Vinko Grgić, Ermina Lekaj Prljaskaj, Miroslav Škoro, and Sanja Udović.

Speaking once were Zlatko Hasanbegović (Blok), HDZ's Ante Sander and Nataša Tramišak, and Irena Šimunić (NZ).

Speaking twice were Robert Jankovics (NZ) and HDZ's Magdalena Komes, three times Rajko Ostojić (SD), four times each Marijana Balić (HDZ), Stjepan Kovač (HSS), Marin Mandarić (HDZ), Milorad Pupovac (SDSS), and Predrag Štromar (HNS), and five times each Dragana Jeckov (SDSS) and Žarko Tušek (HDZ), etc.

In total, 37 MPs, more than a fifth, took the floor ten times or fewer. The figures available so far show that MPs spoke 5,250 times in the chamber this autumn and mostly exhausted themselves with rejoinders.

Namely, nearly 70 percent of their speeches consist of rejoinders (1,600), responses to them (700), and reports of violations of the Rules of Procedure (1,300).

Due to these reports, they most often received warnings because it was not a violation of parliamentary rules, but ordinary rejoinders.

This is largely confirmed by the data for the top three female MPs - Orešković, who spoke a total of 194 times, made 70 rejoinders, responded to a rejoinder 20 times, and reported a violation of the Rules of Procedure 37 times.

For Mrak Taritaš, who recorded 156 interventions, 48 rejoinders, 36 responses to them, and 18 violations of the Rules of Procedure were noted.

Selak Raspudić used these short forms the least, making only nine rejoinders, responding to a rejoinder 46 times, and reporting a violation of the Rules of Procedure 28 times, Hina reports.