OPPOSITION LEADER CALLS FOR COOPERATION TO BEAT THE RULING PARTY

ZAGREB, May 20 (Hina) - President of the Croatian strongest opposition party, Liberal, (HSLS), Drazen Budisa, called Saturday all opposition leaders to "open and honest cooperation, without any calculations", in order to beat the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in the next election. Speaking at a ceremonial caucus, marking sixth anniversary of his party establishment (HSLS was the first non-Communist party to be established in Croatia, in 1989), Budisa said the key policy of the party would be "the reduction of enormous President-of-the- Republic's authority", and struggle for a "true parliamentary system." Croatia has been going through "a new outburst of primitivism, just like in 1941 and 1945," Budisa said, relating to the fascist and communist regimes the country had experienced in its past. The session was attended by the representatives of other major opposition parties, and the representatives of liberal parties of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria and Germany. (Hina) bk 201757 MET may 95