The president of the Italian Union and representative of the Italian minority in the Croatian parliament, Furio Radin, said on Friday that "the Constitutional Court's ruling did not surprise him", which is why he had warned about this possibility in advance and sent letters to the Croatian President Ivo Josipovic and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in connection with that.
"After this ruling I no longer trust this court. Therefore I will inform Brussels, EU member states, about this case and I believe there are enough reasons to forward the entire case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg," Radin told press.
"I believe that too many politicians are sitting in the Constitutional Court," Radin said.
The Croatian Constitutional Court on Friday annulled Article 1 of the Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities, which was amended last year, saying that the provision guaranteeing in advance seats in the national parliament for one minority, namely the Serbs, was unconstitutional.
The court unanimously dismissed as unacceptable the provision under which ethnic minorities that account for more than 1.5% of the total population should be guaranteed in advance at least three seats in Parliament based on a general voting right.
