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Sabor won't today vote on reports on Glavas's detention in custody

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ZAGREB, Nov 17 (Hina) - Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks said on Friday morning that the Sabor would not today vote on reports by Credentials and Privileges Commission to strip independent MP Branimir Glavas of immunity. as the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) wanted to hold additional intra-party consultations.
ZAGREB, Nov 17 (Hina) - Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks said on Friday morning that the Sabor would not today vote on reports by Credentials and Privileges Commission to strip independent MP Branimir Glavas of immunity. as the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) wanted to hold additional intra-party consultations.

The Commission asked the parliament to okay the stripping Glavas, suspected of 1991 war crimes, of immunity and approving his detention in custody also on the basis of gravity of crimes.

"We shall not today vote on the Commission's reports because of addition consultations," Seks said at the start of Friday's session responding to questions raised by deputies of the HSP, HDSSB and IDS parties who asked whether the Sabor would today vote on issues it already discussed earlier this week, including the reports by the Credentials and Privileges Commission, as this was announced previously.

The deputies of the three parties asked the Sabor Speaker to give an explanation in the context of today's press articles that the voting on the reports would be delayed following Thursday's meeting of the HDZ top officials.

"Your explanation that the voting has been postponed because of consultations does not suffice me and a majority of colleagues. Who are those whom you are consulting, the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor or the international community. Who is above the parliament so that you have to consult them?," Vladimir Sisljagic, an HDSSB MP and a friend of Glavas, asked the Sabor chairman.

Seks responded that it was the club of HDZ deputies that would like to have additional consultations on defining positions on "some segments of the Commission's reports".

After a short break the Sabor resumed the session with a debate on the financing of local self-government units.

Independent member of parliament Glavas, suspected of war crimes in the eastern city of Osijek in 1991, has been in detention in Zagreb since 26 October this year after a Zagreb County Court investigating judge ruled that he should be remanded in custody.

Also on 26 October, the parliamentary Credentials and Privileges Commission granted the repeated request by the Zagreb County Court to strip Glavas of immunity so that he could be remanded in custody in the so-called Garage Case, due to possible witness tampering, as well as an identical request by the Zagreb County Prosecutor's Office.

The Commission also proposed that the Parliament strip him of immunity so that Glavas could be held in custody due to gravity of crimes, which seems to be a contentious issue.

On Wednesday Seks, who is also a high-ranking HDZ official, said that his party would not support the decision by the parliamentary Credentials and Privileges Commission (MIP) approving the detention of independent MP Glavas on grounds of the gravity of the crime he is suspected of, but would only support his detention on grounds that he might tamper with witnesses in a war crimes investigation that was being conducted against him by a Zagreb court.

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