The creation of the present-day, independent, modern and democratic Croatian state began in the Croatian parliament on 30 May 1990, Speaker Josip Leko said on Wednesday at a celebration of Croatian Parliament Day. The formation of the first multiparty and democratically elected parliament, together with the first multiparty election and independence referendum, was “one of…
Month: May 2013
PM’s future reporting on EU Council meetings
The prime minister will report to Parliament more than twice each year on the work of meetings held with the European Council, was concluded at a meeting on Tuesday of the parliamentary Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System which discussed a bill on cooperation between the Sabor and government concerning European affairs.…
Parliament moves to regulate cooperation with government in EU affairs
The Croatian Parliament took the first step on Thursday to formally regulate its cooperation with the Government in European affairs as its Committee on the Constitution and Standing Orders drew up a bill on such cooperation and forwarded it to Parliament for further consideration. The bill defines the way in which representatives of Croatia will…
Constitutional Court abolishes Health Education Curriculum
The Croatian Constitutional Court on Wednesday abolished the Health Education Curriculum, which took effect in February, and ordered that until the adoption of a new curriculum Health Education be taught according to the curriculum that had been in force before the start of this school year. The court assessed the constitutionality of the curriculum at…
Too many examples of playing dirty
Election Day passed in light of persuasion and pressure on citizens to vote for specific candidates, despite the legal ban on violations of electoral silence. In smaller towns pressures were highly evident, with participation of political parties’ activists and candidates, and sometimes committee members of certain political parties. Numerous reports from GONG’s observers and citizens…
Growing number of irregularities at polling stations
GONG, a nongovernmental organisation in charge of monitoring election processes in Croatia has received an increasing number of complaints about irregularities in the election process, most of these are related to the unprofessional behaviour of election committees, violation of the election black-out and two incidents of alleged attempts to buy votes, a report released by…