HDZ CENTRAL COMMITTEE SESSION ANNOUNCES REDUCTION OF FREEDOMS IN C

IN C $ ROATIA, HSLS SAYS ZAGREB, Feb 26 (Hina) - The last weekend's session of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Central Committee had shown all elements of mass democracy unique to one-party systems, the Croatian Social-Liberal Party (HSLS) said in a statement on Monday. "The session of the HDZ Central Committee irresistibly reminded of the Communist Central Committee plenary sessions, and this could be seen in one of the central ideas of the session according to which the opposition to one party means the opposition to the whole state," the head of the HSLS, Vlado Gotovac said at Monday's press conference which was called in order to introduce the new party leadership. Describing the HDZ session as "an announcement of further reduction of freedoms in Croatia," Gotovac said the HSLS would be forced to undertake new tactics. Commenting on the Zagreb crisis concerning the election of the city Mayor, the HSLS vice president and one of the unconfirmed Zagreb Mayors, Jozo Rados, said that "the situation in the coalition of Opposition parties is good, strong and harmonious". As the possibility of reaching any political compromise was definitely lost, "the coalition will not allow to the post of Zagreb Mayor anyone who does not belong to one of the Opposition parties," Rados said. (hina) lm jn 261937 MET feb 96