LOWER HOUSE ELECTS MILAN VUKOVIC CONSTITUTIONAL COURT JUDGE

ZAGREB, Feb 5 (Hina) - The Croatian Sabor's House of Representatives on Friday elected Milan Vukovic a Constitutional Court judge. Vukovic's election was supported by 59 representatives, with 21 votes against and seven abstentions. Vukovic will take up his new office on the day he pledges allegiance to the President of the Republic. By electing Vukovic, the Sabor has completed the number of Constitutional Court judges to the required number of 11. Since early 1997, when Vukovic left the Constitutional Court to take up the post of Supreme Court President, the Constitutional Court had 10 judges. This is the third time Vukovic is taking up an office at the Constitutional Court. Vukovic was proposed for his new post by the House of Counties, after he put his mandate as Supreme Court President at disposal on January 23. Vukovic was born on August 18, 1933, in Krilo Jasenice, in the Omis municipality. He graduated from the Zagreb Law School in 1956 and passed his bar exam in 1961. The same year he opened his own office in Zagreb and acted as defence attorney in a series of trials against political prisoners. Vukovic worked as an attorney until 1991, when he was appointed to the Constitutional Court for the first time. (hina) jn rml