Responding to the opposition's criticism of proposed changes to the boundaries of constituencies, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Tuesday that "everything stays the same, but we have to follow the demands, recommendations and decisions of the Constitutional Court."
Speaking to the press in Arzano, Kosor said electoral rules were not being changed and that one could talk about that if a decision was adopted, for example, to make Croatia one constituency or to have five constituencies.
All deputies elected at the next parliamentary elections must be elected with approximately the same number of votes, that is, the voters who elect them must have equal rights, she said.
Kosor said the opposition, notably the Social Democratic Party (SDP), was attacking the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) over the proposed changes without having any information about them and reiterated that no changes to the electoral legislation or electoral rules were being proposed.
Kosor said there was nothing new in the opposition's behaviour and that the "SDP ignored the Constitutional Court's decisions, recommendations and opinions."
Responding to the opposition's accusations of gerrymandering against the HDZ-led ruling coalition, she said the latest changes had taken a long time to draw up because it was "not at all simple to meet the Constitutional Court's demand and proposal given Croatia's shape." She added the ruling coalition would hold consultations on the matter and then make a decision.
In Arzano, 50 km northeast of Split, near the Bosnian border, Kosor laid a wreath and lit a candle at the grave of Josip Jovic, the Croatian policeman killed at Plitvice Lakes on 31 March 1991 at the start of the Homeland War.
