ZAGREB, March 14 (Hina) - The Bill on the Croatian National
Security Office, proposed by the Internal Affairs and National
Security Committee, aroused long discussion at today's session of
the House of Representatives.
Opposition deputies said that the the adoption of the bill
could "create a parallel government", and stressed that the
National Security Office (UNS) should not work under instructions
by the President of the Republic but in accordance with the
Constitution and laws.
The Opposition said that under the proposed Bill the control
of the UNS's work would be reduced to one report a year to the
parliamentary Internal Affairs and National Security Committee.
Opposition deputies feared that the Bill would make it
possible for the President of the Republic to exercise even more
power and that its adoption could lead to dictatorship.
A number of Opposition deputies proposed that the Bill be sent
for the third reading.
The session was addressed by the chairman of the Internal
Affairs and National Security Committee, Luka Bebic.
Bebic said that the Bill stipulated that the UNS would be
obliged to submit a report to the Committee whenever the Committee
deemed it necessary.
The constitutional basis of the Bill was a provision of the
Constitution saying that the President of Republic was to ensure
that the Constitution was respected, and the Constitution provided
instruments in case the President failed to do so or in case he
violated the Constitution, Bebic said.
The debate was to resume after the Committe took a stand on
amendments to the Bill.
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