Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Zoran Milanovic said on Friday that his party would respect the ruling by the Constitutional Court, which revoked a double voting right for the ethnic minorities, although its MPs had voted in favour of the amendments to the Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities.
The fact that the Constitutional Court today abolished a portion of that law we do not consider as a constitutional crisis, but it should have been done earlier given that elections are being held only four months from now, Milanovic told a press conference at SDP headquarters in Zagreb.
He recalled that the SDP had voted in favour of the amendments to the Constitutional Law, which guaranteed to all minorities that account for less than 1.5 per cent of the total population an additional voting right and to the Serb minority, which accounts for more than 1.5 per cent, a special right to vote on open civil slates.
Milanovic said that the SDP had had objections to the election law that was amended in December "because it obviously favoured one party."
