SEKS: LION'S SHARE OF JOB IN MAKE-UP OF PARL. COMMITTEES COMPLETED

ZAGREB, Dec 19 (Hina) - The likeliest new parliament president, Vladimir Seks of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), said after a meeting of representatives of parliamentary benches and national minorities on Friday that "a lion's share of work" had been done in determining the make-up of the credentials and privileges commission, the elections and appointments committee, the committee on legislation and the committee on the constitution, which is required for the inaugural parliamentary session scheduled for December 22 and the first working extraordinary session which will be held later that day.#L# I believe that in spite of different views, parliamentary parties will form the four committees at the inaugural session and adopt amendments to three necessary laws, and that the next day parliament will hold a vote of confidence in Ivo Sanader's government, Seks said. He said that consultations on the composition of the committees would continue this evening and tomorrow and that the full composition would be known on Monday. The head of the SDP parliamentary club of deputies, Mato Arlovic, said that the Opposition needed to reach a political agreement on candidates for three posts of vice-president, stressing that 50 percent of the Opposition seats in committees should be assigned to the Social Democratic Party. He said the SDP club of deputies would nominate its members for the committees on Sunday evening. Seks said that drafting amendments to the laws on the government, state administration and the scope of work of ministries and administrative organisations was in a final stage. (Hina) it sb