SERB MP FINDS FAULT WITH "CENSUS CRITERION" FOR E.SLAVONIA ELECTIO

ELECTIO $ N ZAGREB, Aug 1 (Hina) - Serb National Party (SNS) member of Parliament Veselin Pejnovic on Thursday forwarded an open letter to Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa Voicing support, in principle, to the Government's decision to call local elections in the Croatian Danubian area, Pejnovic questioned the Government's stance that only people figuring on 1991 census lists had the right to vote. "Does this mean that Croatian citizens who do not figure on the census lists in the two Danubian area counties will not be able to exercise their franchise?" Pejnovic queried. "Why didn't the Government apply the same principle to the parliamentary elections last October?" Pejnovic pointed out. Pejnovic also found fault with the date of the election (December 1996), which could "pre-empt certain solutions." (hina) as 011600 MET aug 96