The main committee's chairman Dinko Buric today read out Glavas's letter in which the party founder said that he had been very honoured by the party's decision on his nomination as the head of its lists for the parliamentary polls. However, Glavas writes, he cannot accept it at this moment, explaining that this is best in the party's interest.

Glavas says that some negative reactions to the main committee's previous decision reflected the intention of removing this party from the election process which could pave the way to the elimination of the HDSSB from the Croatian political scene which he wrote he could not allow.

Therefore, Glavas, who is currently serving a prison term in Bosnia and Herzegovina for his role in war crimes committed in Osijek in the early 1990s, suggested that the HDSSB slates should be identified by the name of the party's president Sisljagic.

Addressing the main committee Sisljagic criticised the Constitutional Court's opinion that the HDSSB slates should not be identified by the name of Glavas as he was convicted for war crimes.

The Constitutional Court holds that the response by the State Election Commission (DIP) to the HDSSB query, according to which war crimes convict Branimir Glavas can be the head of the party's election slates, but not its candidate in the forthcoming parliamentary election, does not ensure protection of the fundamental values of the Croatian constitutional state and raises an unacceptable possibility from the point of view of constitutional law.

The Constitutional Court stated on Saturday that responsibility for the legal consequences of constitutionally unacceptable decisions lay with those who made such decisions.

Sisjlagic also said that such opinion from the Constitutional Court reflects its stand that the State Election Commission, led by Branko Hrvatin, Supreme Court President, consists of "incompetent people".

Sisljagic said the HDSSB would present its slates to DIP in Zagreb at 1100 hrs Monday.