ZAGREB, March 11 (Hina) - Ivo Sanader, the president of the opposition Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), said on Tuesday his party would win the next parliamentary election, which he estimates will be held this autumn.
ZAGREB, March 11 (Hina) - Ivo Sanader, the president of the
opposition Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), said on Tuesday his
party would win the next parliamentary election, which he estimates
will be held this autumn. #L#
The HDZ believes the current election law is very good and does not
care about the new one the ruling coalition will adopt, he told a
news conference, adding the HDZ would act accordingly and certainly
win.
Sanader said he would advocate the passage of a permanent election
law which would determine when elections were to be held -- the
exact month every four years, several months before the adoption of
the state budget.
"If we want to become a serious democracy, then it is impermissible
that the election law should be altered after every change of
government," he said, adding the election law should be changed
only if the parliamentary majority was in consensus.
The HDZ thinks it is impermissible that the election law excludes
Croatia's emigrants from politics. Sanader said that if the Social
Democrats adopted such a provision, the election law would be the
first the HDZ would change when it came into power.
Sanader said he was glad that his party had won 33.85 percent of the
vote at recent local elections in Virovitica.
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