SERB NATIONAL PARTY OBJECTS TO IRREGULARITIES IN VOTERS' LIST

ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - The Serb National Party (SNS) has in the last two day spotted a series of irregularities regarding voters' lists and will present its objections to the State Electoral Commission and the OSCE as early as today, SNS president Milan Djukic told reporters in Zagreb on Thursday. Djukic said his party would present its election programme and candidates on December 21. Most of the irregularities concern voters' certificates with 'unknown' nationality. Cases have been reported, Djukic claims, where a family of four receives certificates in which the nationality of only one member is named Serb while the nationality of the other three is named 'unknown'. "The Serbs have gone through a difficult process of acquiring the right to citizenship for their nationality to be unknown", Djukic said, adding he believed the irregularities were intentional. Other irregularities concern mostly the unresolved problem of transport, mostly of elderly people, to the polling stations and the "erasing of names from voters' lists". The SNS president also spoke about the status of Croatian Serbs in, as he said, "the post-Tudjman era", assessing that "it is becoming increasingly clear that Croatia today is almost not accepted by the world, including the majority of its own citizens". "The post-Tudjman Croatia has been given a chance for democratic forces to start creating its political scene," he said. "The Serbs have a reason for fear because a part of Croats still don't want their return to Croatia", Djukic said, adding the Serb people has a reason to believe the majority of voters would give their support to democratic forces and recognise the need to solve the status of Croatian Serbs. (hina) rml