ZAGREB, April 30 (Hina) - Clubs of deputies in the Croatian Parliament on Friday supported a report submitted by Ombudsman Ante Klaric for 2003, and pointed to his powerlessness to make state authorities solve problems about which
citizens complained to him.
ZAGREB, April 30 (Hina) - Clubs of deputies in the Croatian Parliament
on Friday supported a report submitted by Ombudsman Ante Klaric for
2003, and pointed to his powerlessness to make state authorities solve
problems about which citizens complained to him.#L#
Silence of the administration and inefficiency of the judiciary are
some of problems of Croatian society which MPs discussed after they
were informed of Klaric's report.
Damir Kajin of the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) club cited a case
when a licence from the Ministry of Culture was required for the
construction of a pig farm as an example of complexity and absurd
procedure in the state administration.
Kajin called on the government to solve the problems in the process of
the return of refugees in the same way in which it decided to solve
the case of the Zec family,
He also urged actions to be taken to prevent profiteering.
Nenad Stazic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) club also underlined
inefficiency of the judiciary.
Stazic welcomed the government's decision to pay damages to the
survived members of the Zec family, but added that this move did not
change the fact that perpetrators had not yet been punished.
Yesterday the Croatian Government decided to make a one-off payment of
1.5 million kuna (EUR 200,000) to financially assist the two survived
members of the Zec family, The public first learned of the Zec family
at the beginning of the war in 1991, when reserve members of the
Croatian Interior Ministry killed Mihajlo, his wife Marija and their
12-year-old daughter Aleksandra in Zagreb. Although the killers
admitted the crime, they never faced trial due to a procedural
mistake.
Dragutin Lesar of the club of the Croatian People Party and one
regional party (HNS/PGS club) said that it would not be enough for
Parliament to endorse the ombudsman's report but that it also should
decide on punishment of state bodies which would fail to act on the
ombudsman's report.
Ratko Gajica of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) club
criticised Klaric for failing to mention some people who were forced
during the war to leave their flats and who were subsequently stripped
of tenancy rights as they were treated by state bodies as persons who
left their pre-war permanent places of residence on their own
initiative.
Djurdja Adlesic of the Social Liberal/Demcoratic Centre (HSLS/DC) club
called on Klaric to give reports on the citizens' problems more
frequently.
(Hina)