CROATIAN PRESIDENT NAMES ZAGREB MAYOR

ZAGREB, March 4 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Saturday named the Minister of Urban Planning, Construction and Housing, Marina Matulovic-Dropulic, as mayor of Zagreb and head of Zagreb County, a presidential adviser said on Monday. Dropulic would assume office on March 11, Presidential Internal Policy Adviser Ivic Pasalic told a press conference in Zagreb. He said that the President believed that Dropulic was "a competent person who is very well acquainted with the City of Zagreb and all of its problems, which is a guarantee that the Zagreb city and county executive authorities will funcition in the best possible way." Asked whether he expected the opposition parties to accept the President's decision, Pasalic said he believed that the normal functioning of the city and resolving of all of its problems was also in the interest of the opposition parties. (hina) vm 041300 MET mar 96