| LSV: Statute to enter parliament soon |
| 13 October 2009 | 13:09
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B92 |
BELGRADE --
League of Vojvodina Social Democrats (LSV) deputy leader Bojan Kostreš says the national parliament will debate the Vojvodina statute in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
Kostreš said that, finally, “the statute and the law on the transfer of authorities were nearing their culmination,” adding that the form of the document would be known in two to three weeks’ time.
He said that ratification of the statute and the accompanying law “is only one point on the road to restoring Vojvodina’s autonomy.”
Kostreš said that a legal-technical draft of the statute could destroy the thrust of the document and reduce the province’s powers, stressing that this could happen if the statute omitted the Vojvodina Science and Art Academy or defined Novi Sad as an administrative center, not as the capital of Vojvodina.
“We want to preserve our right to being different and to have a capital city,” he said.
Kostreš said that Vojvodina “cannot consume its authorities now, nor create a budget, because it is not known if it has legislative power or is entitled to open its own office in Brussels.”
He said that decentralization should not be able to put the brakes on Vojvodina’s autonomy, reiterating that his party would not agree to return the statute to the Vojvodina assembly for a second reading.
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