Croatian People's Party (HNS) member of Parliament Vesna Pusic said in an interview with Croatian Television on Sunday she did not believe that the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) would embark on changing the boundaries of constituencies as it would be against the law.
Speaking in the political talk show "Nedjeljom u dva", Pusic said that the Constitutional Law on the Enforcement of the Constitution stated that legislation regulating parliamentary elections cannot be changed a year ahead of elections.
She noted that one should also take into account the fact that voter registers were in disarray.
"According to some estimates, there are 400,000 people (in voter registers) for whom it is not known who they are, where they are and if they exist, and according to other estimates, there are as many as 900,000 such people," Pusic said, adding that the parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2007 were held on the basis of such unreliable information.
She said that the law on voter registers would therefore have to be changed after the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
"The results of the (current) population census will be known on June 30 and the law on voter registers will have to be amended so that the population census can be used as a reliable basis to update information," she said.
Asked if the forthcoming announcement of the verdict in the Hague tribunal case against General Ante Gotovina could have an impact on Croatia's EU accession talks, Pusic, who also chairs the National Committee supervising Croatia's EU entry talks, said the verdict itself could not have any impact.
"Of course, everyone is warning that reactions among members of the public and politicians in Croatia will be followed to see if the verdict, regardless of what it will be, is used for political or any other purposes," she said.
Asked if there was a right-wing force in Croatia that the HDZ was unable to control and that could destabilise the country, Pusic said that she did not believe that there were extremist groups that could seriously destabilise the country.
"But that is definitely something one should not ignore entirely, but rather be aware that there are groups that would like to see Croatia join the EU as late as possible because fishing in troubled waters - even though not impossible - will be more difficult in the EU."
