HSLS-DC COALITION HOLDS MAIN PRE-ELECTION RALLY IN CONSTITUENCY 5

SLAVONSKI BROD, Nov 15 (Hina) - The incumbent government will last only one more week, and the only question after the Nov. 23 elections will be how the two-thirds of the vote the current opposition wins will be distributed, Social Liberal (HSLS) leader Drazen Budisa said on Saturday. #L# Speaking in Slavonski Brod at the main pre-election rally of the HSLS-Democratic Centre (DC) coalition for constituency no. 5, Budisa said the coalition was a new political force with a clear political and social orientation, a new economic programme, democratic and pro-European. The coalition is free of any form of political radicalism or extremism and will be able to turn Croatia into a country worthy of the sacrifice invested in it, he said. DC leader Mate Granic said the coalition advocated restricting government intervention. "No one will lead our economic platform, neither domestic nor international lobbies nor international financial institutions. It will be led by the new Croatian government, whose character will be determined by the HSLS-DC coalition." The coalition will reform the agriculture, create the proper business climate and reduce taxes so as to increase exports, reduce imports, and employ people, said Granic. The HSLS-DC slate in constituency no. 5 is headed by the DC's Vesna Skare-Ozbolt. (hina) ha