SEKS ADVOCATES CONTINUATION OF DIALOGUE WITH 'OPPOSITION SIX'

ZAGREB, Dec 7 (Hina) - Vladimir Seks on Monday advocated the continuation of dialogue with six opposition parties, but without any previously set conditions. Seks, the vice president of the Croatian parliament, was speaking at a session of the National Committee of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). He called on HDZ representatives to be united, resolute, and have arguments in a political confrontation with the Opposition Six which, he said, constantly proclaimed every move of the state leadership as unsuccessful. In trying to create a climate calling for an early parliamentary election, Seks asserted the opposition consciously skipped over the legacy from the former political system, the aggression on Croatia, and the influence of the recent war on the social and economic fields. He told his HDZ colleagues not to act defensive and despondent, and not to be discouraged, even though the Opposition Six were systematically working towards convincing voters that their victory at the elections was no longer questionable, but only a matter of when the elections would be held. Seks also advocated cooperation with some parties from the Opposition Six, pointing out to the agreement on the issue of agrarian politics achieved with the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS). The Opposition Six includes the Croatian Social Liberal Party, the Croatian People's Party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the HSS, the Istrian Democratic Assembly, and the Liberal Party. Ivic Pasalic, the Croatian President's advisor for internal politics, expressed HDZ's willingness to cooperate on all levels with wider centrist parties in the pre-electoral and post- electoral periods. He proposed that the HDZ National Committee adopt an ethical code, which would set the rules for the multi-party race before and after elections. He refuted estimations that the HDZ was inciting a two-party system for personal interests. Making the political scene bipolar and two- party cannot contribute to the further development of Croatian democracy, nor is that in the interest of the HDZ as the largest people's party of the political centre, Pasalic added. Pasalic saw the reason for the Croatian political scene's tendency towards bipolarity in the fact that opposition parties primarily associated to act against the HDZ. He said it was now completely obvious that such conditions benefited the SDP, which formed into the strongest representative of such opposition. Pasalic said the other Opposition Six parties should focus on own programmes, instead of helping, he said, reformed communists in their attempts to gain power. Pasalic advocated unity within the HDZ, stopping all controversies, particularly with regard to the disclosure of confidential information, and proposed that all violators, after a D day, be excluded from the party. Ivan Milas advocated cooperation with all parties with which the HDZ has at least partially mutual interests. He particularly mentioned the Croatian Party of Rights, the Croatian Pure Party of Rights, and the Croatian Christian Democratic Union. (hina) it/ha jn