ZAGREB, Jan 18 (Hina) - Parliamentary bench presidents of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and six opposition parties on Monday failed to reach an agreement on the opposition's demand for a parliamentary debate on the
activity of Croatian intelligence services. Discussed at today's closed, three-hour-long meeting were electoral legislation and a law on the official use of language and alphabet of national minorities. HDZ's Vladimir Seks and Djurdja Adlesic of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) separately told reporters talks would resume after the parliamentary bench presidents of both the HDZ and the Opposition Six held additional consultations with their party leaderships. Adlesic said the key issue which prompted last autumn's resignations of opposition representatives to all parliamentary duties except to those as representatives had remained unresolved. The opposition dema
ZAGREB, Jan 18 (Hina) - Parliamentary bench presidents of the
ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and six opposition parties
on Monday failed to reach an agreement on the opposition's demand
for a parliamentary debate on the activity of Croatian intelligence
services.
Discussed at today's closed, three-hour-long meeting were
electoral legislation and a law on the official use of language and
alphabet of national minorities.
HDZ's Vladimir Seks and Djurdja Adlesic of the Croatian Social
Liberal Party (HSLS) separately told reporters talks would resume
after the parliamentary bench presidents of both the HDZ and the
Opposition Six held additional consultations with their party
leaderships.
Adlesic said the key issue which prompted last autumn's
resignations of opposition representatives to all parliamentary
duties except to those as representatives had remained
unresolved.
The opposition demands that a committee of inquiry be established
to investigate the legality of activity of security-intelligence
services.
Seks too said talks on the scheduling of a parliamentary debate on
the activity of the said services would resume after consultations
between parliamentary benches and party presidents.
Prior to a debate on electoral legislation, representatives of the
HDZ and the Opposition Six will try to find joint standpoints with
regard to a separate list for the diaspora.
The opposition has suggested the revocation of a separate list from
which Croatian citizens living abroad elect MPs, but the ruling HDZ
opposes the motion, believing the revocation would infringe on the
Croatian diaspora's electoral right.
Adlesic and Seks told reporters talks would also resume on a bill on
the official use of language and alphabet of national minorities,
which has been debated in three readings and is expecting voting.
Seks said the HDZ would consider the opposition's suggestion that
counties autonomously arrange the minority language issue.
As agreed, the minorities' MPs will voice their opinion on the
matter.
Adlesic and Seks were unable to be more specific with regard to when
the talks would resume.
Besides the HSLS, the Opposition Six includes the Social Democratic
Party, the Liberal Party, the Croatian Peasants' Party, the Istrian
Democratic Alliance, and the Croatian People's Party in
association with the Istrian Democratic Forum.
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