Representative bodies will be dissolved in Velika Gorica, Pozega-Slavonia County and Dubrovnik-Neretva County, he told the press.
Macek said new elections would be held in those units in accordance with the law. Within 60 days the commissioner has to prepare the city or county for the ballot and provide for normal functioning of the electoral units whose councils or assemblies have been dissolved.
The spokesman dismissed claims that the government had decided on such a step under pressure from the public and political parties.
This is a principled position of the government which maintains that the Constitution and laws have to be honoured, said Macek, recalling that parliament was currently discussing a government motion to amend the law on the election of local representative bodies so as to prevent subsequent manipulation of councillor seats.
Addressing parliament earlier today, the state secretary at the Central Office for State Administration, Antun Palaric, said he would move that the government dissolve representative bodies and call new elections in local units which had been established to have formed their authorities on the basis of councillors' blank resignations.