ZAGREB, June 1 (Hina) - The Croatian National Parliament's House of Representatives on Thursday adopted the Reconstruction Law which was extensively discussed two weeks ago.
ZAGREB, June 1 (Hina) - The Croatian National Parliament's House of
Representatives on Thursday adopted the Reconstruction Law which
was extensively discussed two weeks ago. #L#
During the discussion, the Opposition claims, Public Works,
Reconstruction and Construction Minister Radimir Cacic had
offended Croatian Homeland War veterans and victims of the
aggression on Croatia.
The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party bench filed a request to
the Lower House for a vote of no confidence to Minister Cacic for his
statement that "upon arrival in Knin, immediately following its
liberation, there had been no members of the HDZ there, and crimes
during the war had been committed on both sides".
With most votes, the Lower House on Thursday dismissed HDZ's
suggestion and voted Cacic confidence.
Several disputable provisions of the Reconstruction Law which
caused polemic were solved by the Government with two amendments it
forwarded to the Parliament from Thursday's session.
The amendments will avoid any misinterpretation, they said.
Cacic said the first amendment states precisely the time frame in of
the validity of the right for reconstruction.
The right for reconstruction will be granted for material goods
which had been destroyed or damaged "since the beginning of the
Greater Serbian aggression on Croatia, during the Homeland War,
until the end of the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian
Danubian area".
The first variation of the law stipulated that material goods
"destroyed in the Homeland War" would be reconstructed, which
caused reactions from the Opposition who asked that this be
substituted by the syntagm "in the Greater Serbian aggression on
Croatia".
The second amendment commits Minister Cacic to within a month, from
when the law takes effect, drafts a rule book elaborating on
priorities for reconstruction.
The aim of the law, Cacic explained, is not to derogate any person's
right to reconstruction, but to give equal rights to all citizens of
Croatia. The Government's amendments clarify some issues, he
asserted.
While the voting on the amendments was in progress, HDZ MPs left the
chamber, thus fulfilling their pledge that they would not take part
in the work of the Parliament as long as Minister Cacic was
present.
They returned for to vote on the reconstruction law, and they voted
against it.
The Lower House also adopted motioned amendments to the Law on Areas
of Special Government Care, in their first reading.
Hrvoje Momcinovic was elected director of the State Agency for the
protection of market competition, as well as 10 MP's, members of
Hina's Council.
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