CROATIAN TRUE REVIVAL-CROATIAN BLOC COALITION HOLDS ELECTION RALLY

OSIJEK, Nov 5 (Hina) - The Croatian True Revival-Croatian Bloc (HIP-HB) coalition is disappointed with the incumbent government's policy towards the diaspora, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Hague war crimes tribunal, bitter about its consent to Balkan associations, and humiliated by the criminalisation of the Homeland War, HIP leader Miroslav Tudjman said on Wednesday. #L# Tudjman spoke at an election rally in the eastern city of Osijek. Talking to reporters before the rally, HB president Ivic Pasalic accused President Stjepan Mesic of "getting involved in the election campaign in the most direct manner" with the interview he granted today's Vecernji List. Mesic "disgracefully apologised to Belgrade" and the HB will do everything to remove him from office, Pasalic said, adding that Mesic would also answer for the criminal act of revealing state secrets to the Hague tribunal's prosecution and foreign media. "We accuse him of pressures on the judicial authority in the Sisak Ironworks case, of the testimony against General Tihomir Blaskic where Mesic, as a witness for the prosecution, was the key witness for the claim that the Croatian Army had intervened in Bosnia- Herzegovina," said Pasalic. He added he also accused Mesic of sending Croatian generals into retirement, saying that he "replaced (them) for political reasons," and of the "apology to Belgrade". For the latter, Pasalic said Mesic "had no right to apologise on behalf of Croatia's citizens since Croatia, as a victim of aggression, had not attacked anyone". (hina) ha sb