CROATIA'S ACTING PRESIDENT PAVLETIC CASTS HIS VOTE

ZAGREB, Jan 3 (Hina) - Croatia's acting President Vlatko Pavletic and his wife on Monday morning cast their ballots at the polling station No. 132 in the first constituency covering parts of Zagreb. Pavletic declined to give predictions on possible results which his party (the Croatian Democratic Union) can score at the election for the Croatian Sabor House of Representatives, fearing that his comments "might be wrongly interpreted as the media blackout is still in force." In any case I believe that a turnout of voters will be large, as such atmosphere has been created that reflects that the poll is very important, but in this moment, after the death of our President Franjo Tudjman, the election has assumed particular importance, Pavletic said. Speaking with a crew of a foreign television station, Pavletic said he was expecting that Croatia would enter the anteroom of European integration and the European Union speedier than it is now supposed. He held a brief conversation with the head of monitoring missions for the Croatian parliamentary election, Danish Helle Degn, who happened to be at the polling station where the Croatian acting President voted. Pavletic voiced hope that Degn would get good impressions and see that the voting proceeded regularly. (hina) ms