BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.3522 HINA ZAGREB, FEBRUARY 2, 2000

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.3522 HINA ZAGREB, FEBRUARY 2, 2000 REPRESENTATIVES IN CROATIAN LOWER HOUSE TAKE OATHZAGREB, Feb 2 (Hina) - The Croatian National Sabor's House of Representatives includes 151 representatives, namely 140 representatives from the list of political parties in ten electoral units and six lists from a separate electoral unit for the Croatian Diaspora and five representatives of national minorities.This was reported by the Credentials and Privileges Commission and was adopted by the Lower House at today's constituent session. Of 151 representatives, 22 are performing duties which are incompatible with duties in the House of Representatives, so 15 members from the ranks of the Coalition of Six demanded that the mandates of the 22 representatives be frozen. Several Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) representatives are also performing incompatible duties of prefects, and two of them, Djuro Decak and Ivo Baica, informed the Lower House that th