[6][7][8] Rimac was indicted for corruption by Croatian institutions and according to the leak published by Jutarnji list exchanged hundreds of WhatsApp messages with Turudić in a period between 2016 and 2020.

[12] According to writing of Croatian daily Večernji list, at the time of their night meeting, Turudić was president of a court where Mamić was trialed at.

[13][14] He went on to accuse Plenković of trying to place State's Attorney Office of the Republic of Croatia under the political control of current government.

MP Ivana Kekin accused prime minister Plenković of taking the country to the course of Orban's Hungary and Vučić's Serbia.

[2] The protesters demanded for "prevention of corruption, crime, embezzlement of funds" and "Croatian Democratic Union's usurpation of power".

[2] Some of the speakers on the protest included politicians Sandra Benčić, Dalija Orešković, Katarina Peović, Anka Mrak-Taritaš, Krešo Beljak, Peđa Grbin,[26] Ivica Puljak,[27] actor Janko Popović Volarić, singer Ivanka Mazurkijević,[28] film producer and director Dana Budisavljević.

[29] During the protest, the leader of Social Democrats - Davorko Vidović - also expressed the "deepest respect to the sacrifice of Alexey Navalny".