ZAGREB, Jan 26(Hina) - Commenting on a Constitutional Court decision under which 12 Administrative Court rulings whereby the government dissolved Osijek-Baranja County Assembly were said to be in violation of the Constitution, former
Assembly president Ramir Ristic said on Monday the decision was lawful and that he had expected it.
ZAGREB, Jan 26(Hina) - Commenting on a Constitutional Court decision
under which 12 Administrative Court rulings whereby the government
dissolved Osijek-Baranja County Assembly were said to be in violation
of the Constitution, former Assembly president Ramir Ristic said on
Monday the decision was lawful and that he had expected it.#L#
Ristic, who had filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court along
with former county prefect Zdravko Bosancic, told Hina that the
Administrative Court had no legal foundations for making such rulings
because in his opinion the County Assembly had acted in keeping with
the law and that its decisions had been lawful.
"The Administrative Court rulings affected the dissolving of the
Assembly and the calling of early county elections, "Ristic said.
The president of the Osijek-Baranja County Committee of the Croatian
Democratic Union party, Branimir Glavas, said that the Constitutional
Court's decision would not have an impact on legal and political
events in the county or the composition of the new assembly. Glavas
was at the helm of councillors who filed a complaint with the
Administrative Court regarding the lawfulness of the work of the
County Assembly.
According to him, the County Assembly was not dissolved on the basis
of the Administrative Court rulings. Glavas said the Assembly was
dissolved by the government because the Assembly and the county
authorities had not been functioning for more than five months.
Glavas told Hina that the new Assembly would use extraordinary legal
remedies to contest the Constitutional Court's decision. Glavas
dismissed the possibility of repeating the early county elections,
held on January 18.
(Hina) it sb