ZAGREB, Sept 18 (Hina) - The head of the parliamentary bench of the strongest opposition party - HDZ - has announced that the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) is going to initiate procedure for relieving Deputy Primer Minister Slavko
Linic of his duty. Asserting that a decade of HDZ rule destroyed Croatia more than the Serb aggression, Linic has pardoned (former Serbian and Yugoslav President) Milosevic and the leaders of the (Serb) rebellion in Croatia, the HDZ bench chairman Vladimir Seks said at a news conference on Tuesday. Besides, Linic should be removed from his post because of his discriminatory policy against some members of state-owned companies' management through instigating criminal proceedings against them, while he, at the same time, pardons management members who are also members of his party (Social Democrats), Seks claimed. He announced HDZ would not back the adoption
ZAGREB, Sept 18 (Hina) - The head of the parliamentary bench of the
strongest opposition party - HDZ - has announced that the Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ) is going to initiate procedure for relieving
Deputy Primer Minister Slavko Linic of his duty.
Asserting that a decade of HDZ rule destroyed Croatia more than the
Serb aggression, Linic has pardoned (former Serbian and Yugoslav
President) Milosevic and the leaders of the (Serb) rebellion in
Croatia, the HDZ bench chairman Vladimir Seks said at a news
conference on Tuesday.
Besides, Linic should be removed from his post because of his
discriminatory policy against some members of state-owned
companies' management through instigating criminal proceedings
against them, while he, at the same time, pardons management
members who are also members of his party (Social Democrats), Seks
claimed.
He announced HDZ would not back the adoption of amendments to the
state budget execution bill, nor a package of social bills.
HDZ insists that prior to a parliamentary discussion on those draft
acts, the government should make public its agreement with the
International Monetary Fund and all relevant letters of intent.
It is unacceptable for the government to keep the agreement secret.
Everything seems to indicate that the package of social bills and
the planned budget revision are direct consequences of the
obligations the Ivica Racan cabinet assumed, Seks told reporters.
He explained his party's decision that HDZ MPs should resume their
activities in parliamentary committees after they boycotted the
work of the Parliament for six months.
Our protest brought no results, as the parliamentary majority
turned a deaf ear to it. HDZ believes that at the moment when Croatia
is plunging into an increasingly deeper economic, social and moral
crisis, it is in the interest of democracy to see HDZ members taking
part in the committees' work, Seks explained.
Seks recounted the reasons for HDZ members' boycott. It happened,
he said, after the parliamentary majority declined to appoint an
HDZ member, Ivic Pasalic, to a post in the Internal Affairs
Committee.
Seks added his party would notify the Council of Europe, the
European Parliament, and the European countries' parliaments of
this case.
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