HDZ DIASPORA SLATE WON'T INCLUDE POLITICIANS FROM BOSNIA

MOSTAR, Nov 2 (Hina) - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) official Florijan Boras told Hina on Sunday the party's diaspora slate for the November 23 parliamentary election would not include politicians from neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina. #L# Boras heads the HDZ election headquarters in Bosnia. Croatian citizens residing abroad vote in a special constituency, Nr. 11. The Bosnian HDZ (HDZ BiH) has not proposed its candidates for the HDZ diaspora slate. A senior HDZ BiH official said yesterday the party would not put up its candidates because it was dissatisfied with the positions the HDZ offered on the slate. Boras refused to confirm there was a disagreement between the two parties. "We want the HDZ BiH to be the strongest Bosnian Croat party." He said the HDZ candidates would be revealed tomorrow after four P.M. Boras announced that the HDZ campaign for the election of diaspora MPs would begin in Sarajevo next week. Responding to a question from Hina, he said that after winning the election in Croatia, the HDZ would no longer govern Bosnian Croat affairs. (hina) ha