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Catholic weekly says constitutional changes abandon one person-one vote principle

Autor: mses
ZAGREB, June 23 (Hina) - The adopted amendments of the Constitution are a faithful image of the political mood and political interests of "the so-called political elites" that have used the changing of the Constitution as an opportunity to partly work for the common good of the entire Croatian nation and partly to promote their partisan interests, reads the editorial column in the latest issue of the leading Croatian Catholic weekly Glas Koncila.

The paper's editor-in-chief, Ivan Miklenic, lambasted as "disputable and bad in long term" the decision to leave the "one person-one vote" principle.

In this context Miklenic criticised the introduction of positive discrimination for ethnic minorities that make up less than 1.5 percent of Croatia's population.

This ushers in "more equal citizens" on the basis of their ethnic background, the editorial reads, adding that on the other side, Croatian nationals living outside Croatia are now deprived of the "one person-one vote" principle.

The paper also deems the provision on availability of primary education to every child under the same conditions to be ambiguous as it has replaced the provision on compulsory primary education.

The weekly points the accusing finger to the provision on the transfer of Croatia's constitutional powers to the European Union once the country' joins the Union.

This blanket legal formulation hides contents unknown to average Croatian citizens, reads the editorial.

Commenting on what it finds to be good solutions in the latest intervention of the Constitution, the editorial points out the quotation of 22 national minorities in the Constitution and the segment reading that Croatia was also founded on the victory of the Croatian soldiers in the just, legitimate and liberation Homeland War.

It would have been even better if this segment also included the term "defensive" as this would incorporate the truth that Croatia was attacked and exposed to aggression, the editorial reads.

(Hina) ms

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