Posted by Ludilo on November 4, 2003, 1:58 pm, in reply to "Elections" As for the Diaspora, I think that if we have someone in Sabor then they need to be apolitical. I don't see a problem with someone from abroad being in Sabor. Where I do see a problem is that we waste our voice if "our" representative is a member of an existing party. The way I see it, in order to make this beneficial, the Diaspora representative needs to be held accountable to his/her constituency and that happens to be us. The Diaspora representative would obviously then serve as a bridge from Sabor to the iseljenistvo and vice versa. The representative should vote in line with our platform and not that of an established political party. Would this shift the balance of power? No not really, unless there is some legislation being passed that Sabor is split on and that our one vote would make a difference. But the main thing is that we would have "our" representative and they would be voicing our stance on issues.
I have a feeling HDZ will do well this time around, but I'm not sure if they will be able to hold a majority of if they will form some kind of coalition of center-right parties.
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: I can't believe that this subject hasn't
: already been opened, so I'll get it going.
: With parlaimentary elections in Croatia
: scheduled for November 23, which party or
: coalition would you like to see win? If
: you're not sure, check out www.izbori.net.
: They have a detailed explanation of each
: party's positions and candidates and lot of
: information.
: Seeing as though most of the discussions on
: this site are in English, I assume that most
: people here live outside of Croatia. So, I'm
: interested to also hear people's opinions on
: the role of the diaspora in Croatian
: elections. Should the diaspora have a vote
: and why or why not?
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