ZAGREB, April 27 (Hina) - The parliamentary bench of the largest Opposition party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), on Thursday called a press conference to address Croatian Television's failure to broadcast yesterday's House of
Representatives debate on a bill of amendments to the reconstruction law. HDZ MPs Jure Radic, Juraj Njavro, and Jadranka Kosor said the larger public had thus been denied the chance to follow the debate. The three officials also said their party was against the bill because it "clearly equalises the victim and the aggressor." According to HDZ, the bill rescinds the rights of Croats exiled from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, as well as precedence in the reconstruction of houses demolished or damaged during or as a result of last decade's war. This gives the exactly same right to reconstruction to those who may have been the aggressor at one time and have been a
ZAGREB, April 27 (Hina) - The parliamentary bench of the largest
Opposition party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), on Thursday
called a press conference to address Croatian Television's failure
to broadcast yesterday's House of Representatives debate on a bill
of amendments to the reconstruction law.
HDZ MPs Jure Radic, Juraj Njavro, and Jadranka Kosor said the larger
public had thus been denied the chance to follow the debate. The
three officials also said their party was against the bill because
it "clearly equalises the victim and the aggressor."
According to HDZ, the bill rescinds the rights of Croats exiled from
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, as well as precedence in the
reconstruction of houses demolished or damaged during or as a
result of last decade's war. This gives the exactly same right to
reconstruction to those who may have been the aggressor at one time
and have been amnestied, the party's officials said.
If that is also a way of currying favours with the international
community, it is one step too many, said Njavro. Radic believes the
current reconstruction law is not discriminatory either to Croats
or Serbs. According to Kosor, it is incorrect that additional
budgetary funds will not be necessary for the enforcement of the law
because the amended law covers a higher number of beneficiaries.
Radic refuted all accusations of criminal activities in connection
with reconstruction ascribed to the former government, pointing
out the reconstruction ministry he headed in the past worked
exclusively via public bids for tenders.
The bill of amendments to the reconstruction law was today endorsed
in first reading.
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