OPPOSITION PARTIES' DEPUTIES LEAVE CROAT PARLIAMENT SESSION

ZAGREB, May 17 (Hina) - After a break during which parties' benches discussed amendments to the final draft of the Labour Bill, the Croatian Parliament's House of Representatives continued a session by voting on the amendments, but without the opposition parties' deputies. The opposition parties' members left the session, because they were not allowed by the Parliament Speaker Nedjeljko Mihanovic to express their standpoints on the Labour Bill. Before the voting only Mato Arlovic, a member of the Social- Demarcation Party (SDP), could convey the views of his party's bench. Arlovic said that on the grounds of the amendments the Government proposed after its negotiations with trade unions the SDP deputies believed that the "result of those negotiations is rather meagre." Therefore the SDP members abode by their 120 amendments to the Labour Bill. (hina) jn mms 172003 MET may 95