ZAGREB, Nov 13 (Hina) - The presentation of platforms and candidates for parliamentary elections in Croatia later this month continued on national television on Thursday.
ZAGREB, Nov 13 (Hina) - The presentation of platforms and
candidates for parliamentary elections in Croatia later this month
continued on national television on Thursday. #L#
Tomislav Mercep said his Croatian Popular Party was the only party
which did not have ex-communists among its top officials.
He also said European integration was an "overblown" topic. "If
it's so important to them, why didn't they work on it instead of
dissolving the Croatian parliament before it was time?"
Ivic Pasalic of the Croatian Bloc (HB) said the principal task of
the HB's coalition with the Croatian True Revival (HIP) was to
prevent the political, moral and material disintegration of
Croatia and its society which he said ensued after the death of
President Franjo Tudjman.
Pasalic accused the authorities of "defaming Croatian war
veterans, without whom there would be neither a government nor a
state".
He pledged promoting the values on which Croatia was created, a
demographic revival and economic progress.
Pasalic said the HB and the HIP would not extradite General Ante
Gotovina to the Hague war crimes tribunal, and would call a
referendum to change the constitutional law on cooperation with the
tribunal so that the judiciary and not the executive authority
would decide whether the tribunal's indictments were founded and
constitutional.
Pasalic said the HB-HIP coalition advocated thoroughly purging
security services from ex-Yugoslav and underground agents, helping
Croats in Bosnia gain sovereignty, and reviving ties with
emigrants.
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