ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - President of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Ivica Racan, after a two-hour meeting of the party's presidency on Friday said the SDP would insist on issues of a programme agreement, and not only personnel
aspects of the Croatian government. The SDP believes it is extremely important to ask whether the government had a stable support in the parliament, and was there the programme agreement guaranteeing a stable maintenance of a regular mandate. If answers to both questions are negative, then elections are the only solution, said Racan, adding presidents of coalition parties would continue a discussion on Tuesday. Asked whether it was true that other four presidents of parties of the ruling coalition insisted on the parties' right to change ministers, he answered there was no big difference among parties. We are not contesting parties' right to suggest and withdraw people from the
ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - President of the Social Democratic Party
(SDP) Ivica Racan, after a two-hour meeting of the party's
presidency on Friday said the SDP would insist on issues of a
programme agreement, and not only personnel aspects of the Croatian
government.
The SDP believes it is extremely important to ask whether the
government had a stable support in the parliament, and was there the
programme agreement guaranteeing a stable maintenance of a regular
mandate. If answers to both questions are negative, then elections
are the only solution, said Racan, adding presidents of coalition
parties would continue a discussion on Tuesday.
Asked whether it was true that other four presidents of parties of
the ruling coalition insisted on the parties' right to change
ministers, he answered there was no big difference among parties.
We are not contesting parties' right to suggest and withdraw people
from the government, but the question is in which circumstances and
how this should be done, said Racan.
A consent by, among others, premier is required for entering the
government, which nobody contested, while the leave from the
government does not require the same mechanism, but some sort of
agreement and a discussion with the premier. This is needed so that
arguments as to one's withdrawal from the government are heard, and
for agreeing upon dynamics of the leave etc. , which is a practice in
the world, Racan said and added this was not a stumbling stone.
Racan categorically refuted options on a minority government, and
said the SDP not once advocated the minority government. You could
not have heard this from me, Racan said. He added he mentioned the
minority government as a joke when he said such a government was
possible even without the SDP.
(hina) np