Members of the Istria County Assembly supported at an extraordinary session on Thursday a draft agreement with the government on launching the Brijuni Rivijera tourism project in the location Pineta in Fazana, at Hidrobaza in Pula, and on the island Sv. Katarina-Monumenti.
The draft agreement was supported by 22 deputies of the Istrian Democratic Party (IDS), the Croatian Democratic Union and the Croatian Social Liberal Party, nine deputies of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Ladonja party, and the Croatian Pensioners' Party voted against, and the deputy of the Croatian People's Party abstained.
Istria County head Ivan Jakovcic of the IDS said that the agreement, to be signed on Friday, had also been greenlighted by the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor, which he said proved that there was nothing disputable about it.
Istria County Assembly chair Dino Kozlevac of the SDP said his party supported the project fully, but it did mind that the agreement on the project was being signed with the government only three months before parliamentary elections.
The county assembly also endorsed an agreement on the co-financing of construction work on a new general hospital in Pula, which the local authorities signed with the government earlier in the day. Deputies of the Ladonja party, however, walked out of the hall during the vote.
