PRESIDENT OF VOJVODINA CROATS' ALLIANCE FORWARDS LETTER TO CRO EMB

EMB $ ASSY SUBOTICA, Nov 1 (Hina) - Reacting to the structural set up of electoral committees in elections in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which are to take place on 3 November, president of the Democratic Union of Vojvodina Croats, Bela Tonkovic, on Friday forwarded a letter to the Croatian Embassy in Belgrade, stressing that the Serbian authority had nominated into the committees exclusively members of the ruling Serbian Socialist Party (SPS), the Yugoslav Alliance of the Left Wing (JUL) and the Seselj's Serbian Radical Party (SRS). #L# Proposals of all other parties had been rejected almost everywhere and only monitors of parties which are to participate in federal elections would be able to observe the counting of votes, the letter said. Elections for the Vojvodina Assembly and municipal assemblies will not be supervised. All the electoral material is to be gathered by presidents of the electoral committees on Friday. They are to keep the material by 3 November and take it to polling stations, Tonkovic warned. As there are to be no international observers at the elections, such a set up of the electoral committees excluded the possibility of supervising the elections and electoral results. This was open maltreatment which largely diminished trust and the democracy of elections, Tonkovic said in his letter. (hina) lm 011919 MET nov 96