ZAGREB, March 8 (Hina) - Parliament's lower house wrapped up Thursday's debate on a draft decision proposing new amendments to the Constitution but representatives did not vote as the upper house had not discussed the amendments yet.
The aim of the amendments is to abolish the upper house and give counties the opportunity to decide on issues of interest, and to revoke the right of the Diaspora to vote. The most critical of the draft constitutional amendments were representatives of the strongest opposition party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), who turned them down describing them as the result of party interests of the ruling coalition's six parties. HDZ's Ivic Pasalic said "with these constitutional amendments, the ruling coalition is sending to the world signals of 'constitutional and legal insecurity'." He assessed the moved amendments would centralise Croatia. Independent representative Ivo Loncar
ZAGREB, March 8 (Hina) - Parliament's lower house wrapped up
Thursday's debate on a draft decision proposing new amendments to
the Constitution but representatives did not vote as the upper
house had not discussed the amendments yet.
The aim of the amendments is to abolish the upper house and give
counties the opportunity to decide on issues of interest, and to
revoke the right of the Diaspora to vote.
The most critical of the draft constitutional amendments were
representatives of the strongest opposition party, the Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ), who turned them down describing them as the
result of party interests of the ruling coalition's six parties.
HDZ's Ivic Pasalic said "with these constitutional amendments, the
ruling coalition is sending to the world signals of 'constitutional
and legal insecurity'." He assessed the moved amendments would
centralise Croatia.
Independent representative Ivo Loncar was the most radical in
criticising the ruling coalition, objecting to its inconsistency
in decision-making.
Earlier in today's session, the lower house endorsed a series of
bills in first reading.
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