ZAGREB, Sept 19 (Hina) - The strongest opposition party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), will move a parliamentary debate which should address Croatian President's and Prime Minister's jeopardising of the constitutional order.
HDZ will also move voting on confidence in the interior minister and the government, the HDZ parliament bench head Vladimir Seks said on Tuesday following a parliament presidency session which addressed the agenda of parliament's first autumn session. The HDZ motion was announced by HDZ president Ivo Sanader yesterday after this party's presidency held a session in Gospic. The presidency slammed the fashion in which the highest-ranking officials, during last week's Gospic spectacular arrests, sentenced people in advance, interfering with the judicial authority, Sanader said. Sanader said the steps the authorities took tainted that central town,
ZAGREB, Sept 19 (Hina) - The strongest opposition party, the
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), will move a parliamentary debate
which should address Croatian President's and Prime Minister's
jeopardising of the constitutional order.
HDZ will also move voting on confidence in the interior minister and
the government, the HDZ parliament bench head Vladimir Seks said on
Tuesday following a parliament presidency session which addressed
the agenda of parliament's first autumn session.
The HDZ motion was announced by HDZ president Ivo Sanader yesterday
after this party's presidency held a session in Gospic. The
presidency slammed the fashion in which the highest-ranking
officials, during last week's Gospic spectacular arrests,
sentenced people in advance, interfering with the judicial
authority, Sanader said.
Sanader said the steps the authorities took tainted that central
town, and urged the government to shed light on last month's death
of Hague war crimes tribunal witness Milan Levar to avoid further
tendentious speculation. In case the government fails to do so
before the House of Representative session, he announced the HDZ
would request voting on confidence to the government.
Sabor Speaker Zlatko Tomcic today declined to comment on Seks'
statement. Tomcic told reporters the benches of the HDZ and HSP
(Croatian Party of Rights) had announced some topics referring to
the current situation in Croatia and cooperation with the war
crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Tomcic said he would be able to comment on the HDZ motions after he
received them, and that the House of Representatives session agenda
would include everything received according to procedures and the
rule book. It is the parliament presidency's duty to include on the
agenda all motions received within 30 days.
According to Seks, the HDZ has not yet forwarded the motions into
procedure. The vote of confidence, however, may be requested at the
upcoming parliament session, he said, adding the question was
whether the ruling coalition would accept or reject the proposal.
Seks also said the HDZ would move that the parliament session agenda
include a debate on amendments to the law on cooperation with the
Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia
(ICTY), as well as a debate on why the government was being
selective in filing bankruptcies and pressing charges against
management boards not doing so.
The national parliament's Speaker Tomcic said 24 items had been
received for the September 27 session. Three remain from a spring
session, and parliament expects to receive another four - on
constitutional changes, a report on this summer's wildfires, on
detained and missing persons, and demining.
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