The parliamentary groups of the ruling coalition will this week resume talks on a new law on the election of members of parliament and attempt to formulate a joint proposal which they would propose to other parliamentary groups, the chairman of the parliamentary committee on the Constitution, Pedja Grbin (SDP), said on Monday. Although it…
Tag: Electoral system
Committee okays all proposed changes to electoral law
The parliamentary Committee on the Constitution endorsed in the first reading on Thursday all five proposed amendments to the Election of Members of the Croatian Parliament Act, and Committee Chairman Pedja Grbin said that before the second reading the Committee aimed to find solutions that would be acceptable to all. All the proposed amendments provide…
Constitutional Court to be asked to decide on required number of referendum signatures
The parliamentary Committee on the Constitution unanimously decided on Thursday to propose to Parliament that it formally request an interpretation from the Constitutional Court whether the civil society initiative “In the Name of the Family” gathered enough signatures for a referendum to amend the section of the Constitution relating to parliamentary elections. The initiative has…
Amending the constitution – the precondition for the HDZ to support any change to electoral rules
The Croatian parliament will start a new session on Wednesday next week and already on Thursday it will start a debate on proposals for changing electoral rules that were submitted to the Parliament Presidency by November 3, Speaker Josip Leko said after a session of the Parliament Presidency on Tuesday. The parliament speaker said that…
MPs call for debate on amending election rules
Some of the party groups in the Croatian parliament on Wednesday urged opening a debate on changes to electoral rules, asking Speaker Josip Leko to send all MPs a copy of a letter on that topic he received from President Ivo Josipovic. “I ask that you copy the letter and distribute it to the MPs…
“Election laws won’t be changed without agreement with opposition”
Any amendments to electoral legislation, including on the election of members of parliament, are conditional on agreement with the opposition and such changes will not be adopted without an agreement, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said at a government session on Thursday. The government gave a positive opinion on amendments to the law on the election…