ZAGREB, July 2 (Hina) - Deputy Prime Minister and the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) President, Drazen Budisa, believes that a minority government and the call for his resignation as announced by Prime Minister Ivica Racan were
illegitimate.
ZAGREB, July 2 (Hina) - Deputy Prime Minister and the Croatian
Social Liberal Party (HSLS) President, Drazen Budisa, believes
that a minority government and the call for his resignation as
announced by Prime Minister Ivica Racan were illegitimate. #L#
Commenting on possible scenarios to resolve the crisis in the
coalition at a press conference on Tuesday, Budisa stressed that
the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and HSLS were coalition partners
and he and Racan were elected on a joint listing at the head of the
two parties combined. This would make Racan's move to replace me as
deputy minister as illegitimate, Budisa said.
Budisa considers the scenario of a minority government without the
HSLS as illegitimate too because as he said, the coalition of five
parties was not formed after the election and the current majority
in the Sabor was obtained on joint listings.
The political and moral legitimacy of Racan's demands to have me
replaced are just as legitimate as if I were to demand his
replacement, Budisa said.
He nevertheless said that the crisis should be resolved through
political negotiation.
Asked to comment on a statement by the parliament's president and
president of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS), Zlatko Tomcic,
that the HSS would not spare anyone that hampered relations in the
coalition, Budisa said that he did not recognise himself in that
statement.
Commenting on statements from coalition parties that by leaving the
Sabor when the vote was to have been taken concerning the Krsko
agreement he in fact obstructed the work of the government, Budisa
said these statements were only partially true and that HSLS MPs
walked out of the Sabor as a result of constant pressure on them.
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