Conservative Croatian Sovereignists party will begin collecting signatures on October 24 for a referendum on Croatia's eurozone entry, claiming that the people must have their say on the renouncing of monetary sovereignty.

Croatia’s euro area entry is too important an issue on which only the Croatian people can decide in a referendum, this opposition party’s MP Marijan Pavlicek told the press outside the Croatian Central Bank.

The party will be collecting signatures two weeks.

Two months ago, Croatian Sovereignists launched the “Let’s Protect the Croatian Kuna” initiative, which has been joined in the meantime by non-parliamentary parties: the Croatian Party of Rights, Independents for Croatia, the Renewal Generation and prominent individuals, Pavlicek said, confident that the initiative will receive even broader support.