The “In the Name of the Family” initiative welcomed the Constitutional Court’s decision on Thursday that a marriage referendum can be held, while non-governmental organisations, whose request for the assessment of the constitutionality of the referendum’s question the Court said was unauthorised, said the decision opened the door to a clerical campaign. Initiative representative Zeljka…
Tag: Right to vote
«Self advocacy gives the person better self-esteem»
Disability, legal capacity, living independently in the community, getting married and starting a family, what to do after finishing school, closing institutions, the right to decide, how to influence society – all of this things taken for granted among so called «normal» people, mean the world for people with intellectual disabilities. And as self advocates…
About 28.000 people in Croatia don’t live at permanent address
About 28,000 people in Croatia do not live at their permanent registered address and 217,000 do not have a valid identity card, Interior Ministry official Gordana Valenta said on Monday at a public discussion organised by the GONG nongovernmental organisation on the application of the permanent residence law and upcoming local elections. Valenta said the…
3.7 million eligible voters for EP elections in Croatia
A total of 3,740,951 voters will be entitled to vote in Croatian elections for the European Parliament on April 14, or as many as 763,814 fewer than at the referendum on Croatia’s accession to the European Union, held in January 2012, Public Administration Minister Arsen Bauk said on Friday. Bauk held a press conference to…
The first step of electoral reform
Package of laws regulating the electoral process is only the first step in the fulfillment of one of the campaign promises – a comprehensive and systematic reform of the electoral legislation. GONG is pleased with the positive advances that new electoral laws bring, but wants to point out the outstanding issues and the risks to…
Should people convicted for the most severe crimes be forbidden to stand in elections?
It is truly a question of vital legal as well as political importance, ensued by moral dilemmas, whilst being indivisible from the development of democratic political culture and accountability of both the state and society. With Croatia being in need of a meticulous and all-encompassing reform of electoral legislation, bearing recent experiences in mind, it…