BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4668 HINA Zagreb, July 3

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4668 HINA Zagreb, July 3 PARLIAMENT RATIFIES KRSKO POWER PLANT DEAL ZAGREB, July 3 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament on Wednesday ratified an agreement between the Croatian and Slovene governments on the status and other legal relations regulating investing in, the use and dismantling of the Krsko nuclear power plant. Eighty MPs voted in favour of the agreement, 41 were against, while nine abstained. Most MPs of the five-party ruling coalition voted for the ratification. The HSLS (Social Liberals) bench was divided - six MPs voted in favour, including Goranko Fizulic and Ivo Skrabalo, nine were against, and eight abstained. HSLS president Drazen Budisa said yesterday that all who voted contrary to the party agreement, i.e. raised their hands for the ratification, would be ousted from the party. The ratification was voted against by the opposition's Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), Christian Democrats