RIJEKA, Aug 12 (Hina) - A vice president of the Istrian DemocraticAssembly (IDS) and parliamentary deputy, Damir Kajin, told a newsconference on Thursday that it was impossible for the government toreturn the debt to pensioners and
make the average pension to amountto 50 percent of the average wage without making the country gobankrupt.
RIJEKA, Aug 12 (Hina) - A vice president of the Istrian Democratic
Assembly (IDS) and parliamentary deputy, Damir Kajin, told a news conference on
Thursday that it was impossible for the government to return the debt to
pensioners and make the average pension to amount to 50 percent of the average
wage without making the country go bankrupt.The IDS officials said in Rijeka that this week's meeting of
representatives of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and Croatian Pensioners'
Party (HSU) "is an attempt to save their coalition". According to him, the
only way to return the debt to pensioners was through bonds in the period of at
least five years.
Kajin said the IDS would forward to parliamentary procedure its motion
to amend the newly adopted law on traffic safety and reinstate the allowed
amount of alcohol in a driver's blood to 0.5 per mille.