$ ZAGREB, March 14 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament Lower House on Thursday concluded a discussion on two bills on holidays which were in the first reading. One bill was proposed by the Croatian Government and the other by
representative Ivan Gabelica.
HOLIDAYS
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ZAGREB, March 14 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament Lower House on
Thursday concluded a discussion on two bills on holidays which
were in the first reading.
One bill was proposed by the Croatian Government and the
other by representative Ivan Gabelica. #L#
According to the first bill, there should be 10 state
holidays and 11 days off, since Christmas holidays last two days.
Croatian citizens of Orthodox, Islamic or Jewish religion have
the right not to work and get paid on their main religious
holidays.
The Government did not accept the proposal by representative
Ivan Gabelica that 15 May be set aside as a day off and holiday
in memory of the tragedy of the Croatian people on the Way of the
Cross in Bleiburg (on 15 May 1945 the communist authority
committed massacre over the defeated army of the Independent
State of Croatia, NDH, who had been on their way to surrender to
the Allies as well as over many civilians who joined the army).
On behalf of the Judiciary Committee, representative Vice
Vukojevic proposed that 4 March also be set aside as a
remembrance day in memory of the day when the name of Croatia was
first mentioned (in Prince Trpimir's charter of the year 852).
The Committee proposed that 8 September be set aside as a
remembrance day in memory of the day when the Croatian Parliament
severed all state and legal connections with the former state.
On behalf of the Croatian Social-Liberal Party (HSLS),
Drazen Budisa proposed that 8 September be declared Statehood Day
and that 30 May (which is currently celebrated as Statehood Day)
be named the Day of the Croatian Parliament, since the first
multi-party parliament had been established on that day in 1990,
after the first democratic elections.
One should wait with the proclamation of the Day of Homeland
Gratitude until the whole of Croatia was free, Budisa proposed.
The proposal was supported by the Social-Democratic Party (SDP)
bench.
Representatives from Istria proposed that the day when
Istria had been reunited with Croatia also be declared a
remembrance day.
The House of Representatives completed its discussion on a
bill on time measuring which was in the first reading. Time
measuring in Croatia will be coordinated with Directive 7 of the
European Parliament and the Council of Europe.
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