ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN BUILDING UP AMONG CROAT CANDIDATES IN BOSNIA

MOSTAR, Sept 25 (Hina) - About ten days prior to the election in Bosnia-Herzegovina scheduled for October 5, conflicts are building up between the Croat candidates from the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), the Croatian People's Union (HNZ) and the Croatian Christian Democrats (HDK) on the one side and Croat candidates from the parties currently represented in the incumbent ruling Alliance for Changes on the other. #L# The HDZ, HNZ & HDK candidate for a seat in Presidency of Bosnia- Herzegovina, Dragan Covic, on Tuesday evening at a pre-election campaign in Tomislavgrad accused Croatian officials in the Alliance that they were elected against the will of the people. He said that the Alliance worked for "pro-Serb and pro-Bosnian interests". The candidate of the New Croatian Initiative (within the ruling Alliance), Mijo Anic, at an election campaign in Uskoplje (central Bosnia) on Tuesday night accused the HDZ policy for the calamities experienced by Croats in Bosnia. "The greatest crime against Bosnian Croats was committed by the creators of secessionist policies within our own people," Anic said. He pointed out that the Croat people in Bosnia and Herzegovina were living in difficult conditions and that the image of a well-off nation was being created by a group of military and political oligarchs who literally looted their own people and now are struggling to preserve their positions and wealth. (hina) sp it sb