The Croatian Parliament’s Constitution Committee on Wednesday decided to ask the Constitutional Court to test the constitutionality of the question in the planned referendum against leasing motorways, with Committee Chairman Pedja Grbin of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) explaining that the referendum question would imply an absolute ban on concessions in the motorway sector. In…
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Parliament Speaker announces new session of Sabor
This year’s first regular session of parliament will start on January 21 and is scheduled to run for ten weeks, Parliament Speaker Josip Leko announced after a meeting of the parliament’s presidency on Tuesday. Leko explained that now that the Christmas break was over the parliament would continue with its usual schedule of two sessions…
Parliament speaker thinks Sabor has done proper job this year
In the year drawing to a close, lawmakers spent 103 days in parliament and discussed 373 items on the agenda, adopted 185 laws and parliament speaker Josip Leko said that parliament had done a proper job this year in fulfilling its constitutional duty. Presenting these statistics at a press conference on Friday, Leko explained that…
Parliament has completely fulfilled its constitutional task this year
This year Croatian legislators have spent a total of 160 days at work in Parliament — 110 working days at plenary sessions and 50 at meetings of parliamentary committees and political groups, Parliament Speaker Josip Leko said at a press conference on Thursday in summing up Parliament’s work in 2013. MPs discussed 482 items on…
Parliament formulates final draft of constitutional amendments
Parliament on Friday formulated by majority vote a draft of proposed amendments to the Croatian Constitution. The draft envisages lifting the statute of limitations on first degree murder, reducing the number of signatures required to call a referendum requested by citizens and stipulating the requirements for a referendum to be considered valid. Under the draft,…
A referendum cannot be called on reducing human rights no more
The Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System on Monday took into account some of the objections stated during a public debate on a bill of amendments to the Constitution and unanimously proposed to parliament to discuss a partially amended draft Constitution, with novelties referring mostly to the referendum issue. The Committee was…