ZAGREB, Dec 14 (Hina) - The Democratic Centre (DC) will participate in the next parliamentary election on its own and with a clear economic strategy. The party will oppose the sale of the country's economic resources on the model
"everything for ten kuna", DC vice-president Vesna Skare Ozbolt said at a session of the party's Main Committee.
ZAGREB, Dec 14 (Hina) - The Democratic Centre (DC) will participate
in the next parliamentary election on its own and with a clear
economic strategy. The party will oppose the sale of the country's
economic resources on the model "everything for ten kuna", DC vice-
president Vesna Skare Ozbolt said at a session of the party's Main
Committee. #L#
Skare Ozbolt believes that the government will continue selling the
remaining public companies.
"Apart from a few positive results at the very beginning of the
coalition's rule, the public has mostly witnessed arguments
between coalition parties, the laying-off of workers, political
purges, and the fact that the most deprived social categories were
affected the most by the economic policy, reforms and
restrictions".
The crime rate has increased and the rule of law is not functioning,
she stated.
DC leader Mate Granic said that the government lacked a clear
developmental and economic orientation and that "all, except for
the government, are dissatisfied with the social situation".
Granic believes that the government faces a major responsibility of
winning candidacy for EU membership at a summit in Salonika in June
next year. "If it fails, the Balkans will be Croatia's destiny, at
least in the next decade".
Skare Ozbolt said that the DC would enter post-electoral coalitions
with centrist or centre-right parties.
The DC has proposed that the parliament adopt a law on a memorial
area in Vukovar and the establishment of a war crimes research
centre, because it could not "tolerate any more indictments based
on reports by some Serbian non-government associations being sent
to Croatia by the tribunal in The Hague".
(hina) rml