KOMIZA, May 10 (Hina) - A number of Croatian leaders commented on Friday's decision of the Croatian Constitutional Court with which it overruled the government decision to dissolve the Zagreb City Council.
KOMIZA, May 10 (Hina) - A number of Croatian leaders commented on
Friday's decision of the Croatian Constitutional Court with which
it overruled the government decision to dissolve the Zagreb City
Council. #L#
"All decisions of the Croatian Constitutional Court will be
respected," Croatian Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa told Hina during
his visit to the island of Vis.
Croatian Parliament representatives of the Social Democrat
Party (SDP), Zdravko Tomac, Ivica Racan and Mato Arlovic, told
reporters that they were satisfied with the Constitutional Court's
decision.
"The decision of the Constitutional Court reinstates democracy
in Zagreb and the Zagreb County," Arlovic said, adding that "the
SDP believes in the reign of the legal and democratic systems in
Croatia, which the Constitutional Court confirmed today".
Arlovic said that a session of the City Council would be
called in eight days at the latest, in line with the legal time-
limit.
The president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) City
Committee of Zagreb and a Parliament representative, Zlatko
Canjuga, said that "the legality of the decision cannot be argued".
"The fact that the president of the Constitutional Court,
Jadranko Crnic, did not chair the Court's session at which this
decision was reached, is an inconceivable and nonpermissible
fleeing from reality. Apparently, he had objective reasons for not
being able to chair the session," Canjuga said.
"I do not want to exaggerate, but warn that we are coming
across a problem of a reaffirmation and rearticulation of new
manifestations of neo-socialism," he added.
Croatian Vice-Premier, Ljerka Mintas Hodak, on Friday told the
Croatian Television that "the government will primarily consider
the decision and the exposition of the Constitutional Court and
will then decide which actions to take within the framework of its
legal and constitutional jurisdictions".
She said that ten judges had participated in making of the
decision which had been reached after an exhaustive discussion and
"with votes six to four".
"The Constitutional Court has the right to reach a decision as
the one it has reached and the government has the right not to
agree with the legal opinion of the Constitutional Court," Mintas
Hodak said.
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