The Radio Subotica on Thursday reported during a broadcast in the Croatian language that the DSHV made this decision after "the Republic of Serbia refused to implement provisions of the bilateral agreement with the Republic of Croatia regulating the representation of the Croat minority in law-making bodies".
According to the DSHV leader Petar Kuntic, the Croat minority is entitled to one seat in the Serbian parliament under the said agreement, but the Serbian government does not think that anybody can have a seat if they have failed to pass the election threshold.
The Novi Sad-based 'Gradjanski List daily quoted an official in the Serbian Ministry of Minorities and Human Rights as saying that Serbia "has already annulled the threshold of five percent (of votes) for ethnic minorities and that the rule about the natural threshold will in the future be applied to parties representing minorities".
Local Croats say they ask for having the same possibility of the representation as minorities in Croatia where ethnic Serbs have three deputies in the national parliament.
The DSHV has deputies in the parliament of the northern province of Vojvodina and in local councils of towns of Subotica, Sombor and Apatin.
Croatia's Consul-General in Subotica, Davor Vidis, said that the issue should be tackled by the Croatian-Serbian joint committee in charge of supervising the implementation of the bilateral agreement and that at the moment theire as no need for raising the problem at the international level.