Zmago Prepares Question for Slovenian Referendum

The sitting of the National Assembly has been postponed for tomorrow, and the referendum question has already been prepared.

The Slovenian National Assembly, it seems, meet on Wednesday to decide on the referendum that the Slovenian people will decide about accepting Croatia into NATO, write Slovenian media.

Zmago Jelancic is at the head of the delegation by the Slovenian National Party, and filed a request for the referendum, and proposed a question that Slovenians would answer by either agreeing or disagreeing: “Do you agree to accept the law on ratifying the protocol on the Republic of Croatia joining the NorthAtlantic alliance, that was accepted by the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia on February 9, 2009?”

For now 5,500 Slovenian signatures

The National Assembly will decide on the referendum, and to accept the proposal a majority of the National Assembly will have to agree, which is unlikely, considering that last week 75 percent of the parliament supported Croatia’s entry into NATO.

Remember, on February 16, the “Zavod 25. junij” (25^th June) organization, and its leader Marjan Podobnik handed in 5,363 signatures of citizens that support the referendum. If the demand is confirmed on Wednesday, Podobnik has slightly more than a month to collect 40 thousand signatures, after which the referendum will be planned.

Josko Joras went before the National Assembly together with Podobnik, and the association is based on the idea that they do not accept any territorial agreements after the 25^th June 1991, when Croatia announced their exit from the SFRY (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), and when the borders were defined.