ZAGREB, June 2 (Hina) - Serb National Council president and MP Milorad Pupovac said on Wednesday he believes a draft electoral bill motioned by the ruling Croatian Democratic Union is contrary to the valid Constitutional Law on the
rights of minorities. The draft bill envisages only five representatives' seats for national minorities instead of the present seven. This motion is also contrary to the talks and agreement recently reached with the President of the Republic, Pupovac said. President Tudjman had told the Serb representatives the Serb community in Croatia could not have less rights in future legislation than at present, he added. The three extant seats in parliament for the Serb community cannot be reduced, Pupovac said. "If they take a different direction, we will consider the demand for an unfixed quota for the Serb community in Croatia, for tho
ZAGREB, June 2 (Hina) - Serb National Council president and MP
Milorad Pupovac said on Wednesday he believes a draft electoral
bill motioned by the ruling Croatian Democratic Union is contrary
to the valid Constitutional Law on the rights of minorities.
The draft bill envisages only five representatives' seats for
national minorities instead of the present seven.
This motion is also contrary to the talks and agreement recently
reached with the President of the Republic, Pupovac said. President
Tudjman had told the Serb representatives the Serb community in
Croatia could not have less rights in future legislation than at
present, he added.
The three extant seats in parliament for the Serb community cannot
be reduced, Pupovac said.
"If they take a different direction, we will consider the demand for
an unfixed quota for the Serb community in Croatia, for those living
in Croatia as for those out of the country," he announced.
Mato Arlovic of the Social Democratic Party also assessed as
contentious the suggestion that national minorities have five
seats in parliament.
It is a reduction of the rights national minorities have achieved,
he asserted.
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