ZAGREB, Dec 9 (Hina) - All officials from the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) will make their mandates available to the new government in line with good democratic practice, HSS leader Zlatko Tomcic said during a break in a session of
the party's presidency on Tuesday evening.
ZAGREB, Dec 9 (Hina) - All officials from the Croatian Peasant Party
(HSS) will make their mandates available to the new government in
line with good democratic practice, HSS leader Zlatko Tomcic said
during a break in a session of the party's presidency on Tuesday
evening. #L#
Tomcic dismissed media speculations that 100 or as many as 200 state
officials are from the HSS and that they will keep their positions
despite the change of authority.
Only some 20 such officials are from the HSS, Tomcic said, adding
that all HSS members would make their mandates available after some
ministries and positions were established and new officials were
appointed to ministries and the public sector.
The HSS leader resolutely dismissed media reports that he and his
party "would like to continue sitting on two chairs", namely that he
and Croatian Democratic Union leader Ivo Sanader had made an under
the counter deal enabling HSS members who are directors of public
institutions and companies or assistant ministers to keep their
posts.
Should some of the HSS's experts be needed by the new government,
separate talks will be held on that matter, Tomcic said. He
reiterated that his party was joining the opposition, but that it
would vote for Sanader's government when the vote on that matter was
taken in parliament.
The HSS's support does not imply any other obligation, Tomcic
repeated, adding that his party would vote for the laws and
decisions which it considered good, and oppose those which it
considered poor.
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