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From notes@igc.apc.org Fri Feb 23 04:00:31 1996 Received: from igc5.igc.apc.org (192.82.108.36) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (MailShare 1.0b10); Fri, 23 Feb 1996 04:00:34 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc5.igc.apc.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA01248; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 00:49:36 -0800 (PST) Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:41:11 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: Ivo Skoric Subject: DEMOCRACY RULES IN CROATIA To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <199602230840.AAA06914@igc3.igc.apc.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 25 From: "Ivo Skoric" President Tudjman refused to endorse the third democratically elected Mayor of Croatian capital Zagreb - because they were not members of his ruling HDZ party. Kind of like Clinton banning Giuliani to take the office of New York city mayor because he is not a Democrat. First it was Zdravko Tomac, then Goran Granic and now Jozo Rados. Tudjman now gets to appoint a mayor in 14 days according to the Croatian law (a veritable display of democracy). The city council may subject that appointment to a confidence vote and reject Tudjman's appointee in 15 days. However the mayor-elect also may dismiss the council. By any means Croatia has the reverse American problem: here Congress may unnecessarilly shut down the government and there the government may unnecessarilly shut down the country. ivo Ivo Skoric **************************** iskoric@igc.apc.org 212.369.9197 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 1773 Lexington Ave, NYC NY 10029, USA http://www.peacenet.org/balkans/