ZAGREB, Jan 12 (Hina) - The Social Liberal (HSLS) president, Drazen Budisa, has said his party urges the immediate organisation of early parliamentary elections.
ZAGREB, Jan 12 (Hina) - The Social Liberal (HSLS) president, Drazen
Budisa, has said his party urges the immediate organisation of
early parliamentary elections. #L#
At a news conference he held in Zagreb on Sunday, Budisa said the
coming time would deepen tensions and a political crisis, while the
incumbent Croatian government had no legitimacy in the sense of
having been elected.
Therefore the only democratic solution is elections, the HSLS chief
asserted.
He said a wave of strikes, including a general strike, was in the
offing but the ruling coalition or "what remained of it" was
tackling basic things as if it had been at the beginning of its term
of office.
According to Budisa, Croatia is under specific circumstances
regarding political and social issues.
The HSLS asks that a bilateral agreement on the Krsko-based nuclear
power plant should be again added to the agenda of the parliament,
and it suggests to the government that it should initiate a pre-
arbitration process so as not to allow that the Krsko plant be lost
for Zagreb due to the limitation of action.
Budisa said that during last summer's ratification of the Krsko
deal, the Sabor concluded that it would reconsider the document, if
Slovenia failed to ratify it in the following six months.
The Slovene parliament has not yet ratified it, and there are
announcements in Slovenia about a referendum on the matter, the
HSLS chief said adding that this was a possibility for Slovenia to
buy time and see that there was statute of limitation for pre-
arbitration procedure.
The ratification of the Krsko agreement was one of reasons why the
HSLS left the ruling coalition last summer.
Budisa presented his party's concept of a fund in charge of managing
state-run property and privatisation, which would unite the assets
of the current Privatisation Fund (HFP), DAB agency, pension and
health insurance funds and so on.
The new fund would compile regular reports for the parliament which
could also ask for additional special reports. According to Budisa,
this would make it possible for the public to have control over
privatisation and contentious issues.
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