CROATIAN PARLIAMENT TO REPEAT VOTE ON MEDIA BILL NEXT WEEK

ZAGREB, Sept 27 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament's House of Representatives adjourned a session on Friday after deputies failed to agree whether the Mass Media Bill was adopted or not. The session is to resume on Wednesday, October 2, when the bill will be put to the vote again at the written request of 20 deputies. Fifty-eight deputies voted in favour of the bill, 26 were against while one abstained. Speaker Vlatko Pavletic said that the bill was passed by a majority of the vote. Social Democractic deputy Mato Arlovic countered that the passage of the bill required a majority vote of the total number of deputies, or 64 votes since the lower house has 127 seats. Vladimir Seks of the Croatian Democratic Union proposed that the bill be declared adopted since it was a condition for Croatia's admission to the Council of Europe. "If someone wants to institute legal proceedings before the Constitutional Court, let them do it," he said. (hina) vm as 271843 MET sep 96