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Slaven Bačić Elections for Election Lists for the National Minority National Councils to Be Councils Slated Submitted by October 19 48 Minority Newaugust 2s 018 Slaven Bačić: Elections for HNV Members Again by the Electoral Assembly “Haus Regina” "Beauty of Diversity" Center Open Festival Organized in to Citizens Bela Crkva HIGHLIGHTS EDITORIAL 48 Elections for National Minority C ouncils Slated A s Years Go By ... On Augu st 17 , Minister of P ublic Adm i - A year a go, this same p art of the ne wsle tte r was d edicate d to t he nistration and Local Se lf-Govern ment then t wo hot top ics - education i n the mother tongue and national Branko Ruž ić slated e lections for national minority councils for November 4. Of cou ncils of nat iona l min orities - from the pers pective o f the the tw enty-two nati on al m inority com - expected NMC elections. A year later, these same issues still munities th at will ele ct members to their require o ur atte ntion, a lthough educati on remains a bit overs - nationa l minority councils in 2 018, 18 hadowed by the coming national councils’ elections. have m et the r equirement for direct elections, w hile 4 w ill go fo r el ectoral However, even before the beginning of the summer holidays, assembly elections. The deadline for member s of nation al minoritie s who deal wi th education repea tedly submitting the lists for direct elections encountered a problem concerning student surveys on level of is 15 days prior to the date of direct elec - tions, whereas the deadline for electoral intere st in t he stud y of el ecti ve subjec ts, includ in g the mother tongue study. Namely, as they said, once again the deadline for assembly elections is 30 days prior to the elections. The Minister once again submission of the questionnaires was not respected. In some called all citizens, members of national schools, the documents were delivered one or two days before minority communities living in Serbia, the end of the school year, and, as a consequence, students, as to exerc ise their ri ght to vote and to I enroll in the Special Voters List. wel l as th eir pa re nts, did not have en ough time to m ake their mind up and fill th em ou t. Opinion s abo ut this pro blem were d i - vided. O ne part of th e public be lieves th at decisiven ess o fzbog stud ytogaing "Beau ty of Divers ity" Festival the mother tongue cannot be affected by the time of delivery of Org anized in B ela C rk va š the b allot , because "who ha s decided to atte nd class es of the The six th intern ationa l and multicu l - mother tongue knows it even before the questionnaires are de - tural festival "Beauty of Diversity" livered", wh ile others sa w it as štoa ye uzdišemot another zade „starletama“gradation of tkojehe was held on July 13-15 in the orga - status of members of national minorities. nization of the Association "Czech s Word Kruščica" and the National There is not much time left before the beginning of the school Council of the Czech National Mino - yea r, and, ac cording to the cur rent situ atio n, this s choo l year will rity. Guests from the Czech Republic, not start wit hout usu al troubl es e i ther, thi s time when it co mes Romania, as well as from Smederevo, Padina, Plandište, Kruščica and many to pupils of the first and fifth grades of elementary schools who other towns and village s participated atten d classes in m ino r ity langua ges. The p rinting of text bo oks in the Festival. After they had thanked for these cla sses is del ayed to a l arg e extent, de spit e t he agree ment to all th ose who helpe d the org an i - signed be tween th e Ministry of Education and the National Council zation o f the Fes tival, the particip ants two years ago precisely to avoid such situations. A strong will that danced a kolo to gether and in this w ay, interwo ve n in different costu - existed two years ago has somehow faded along the way, and all mes, show ed aga in in the b est p os - that has rem ained seem s to be just an other dea d lette r on p a - sible way how bea utiful the div ersity per. promoted by this Fest ival is. Request to the 30 d iffer ent national m inorities live in Serbia Municipality of Vrbas to Introduce the M ontenegrin Lan guage into Official Use The legal team of th e Mon ten egrin Party sent a lett er to the pre sident of the municip ality of Vrbas, M ilan Gluš ac, requ esting t hat the local self-govern - ment introduce the Montenegrin lan - guage into official use by the end of September 2018. The Party reminded in its statement that, as provided b y the am endments to the Law on the Official Use of La n - er for all guages and Scripts, local self-govern - and ONE newsle me nt is obliged to in troduce in equal ter ms the lan guage and the script of th e national minority int o official use if its members constitute 15% of the population in that territory. www.minoritynews.rs Minority News Portal OUR INTERVIEW: SLAVEN BAČIĆ, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CROATIAN NATIONAL MINORITY Elections for HNV Members Again by the Electoral Assembly ore than two years ago, the President of Croatia and the then Prime Minister of Serbia signed a document on improving relations and resolving open issues between the two countries. A number of provisions concerned the position of the Croatian minority in Serbia and the rights guaranteed to members of the Croatian minority. For the Minority News, the President of the CMroatian National Council, Dr Slaven Bačić, presents his view of the current situation. During the public hearings on the draft ments. When it comes to the rights, is very difficult to declare that a child amendments to the minority laws there are several new elements that who has just been born is of a certain which have recently been adopted, were more important. One of them is nationality. Of course, we have this tra - the national councils of national mi - the introduction of a record of national dition that the data on the newborn norities, professional public, and civil self declaration, since this is one of the children are usually entered into the society made numerous comments parameters on the basis of which the birth registry books based on the na - and objections. To what extent is the representation of minorities in the pu - tionality of the father, but, if the child Croatian National Council satisfied blic administration can be assessed. grows up in a different environment, with the amendments to the minority The nationality will be entered in the this can change. This process has star - laws? birth registry books, but, unfortunately, ted, but I regret that it has not been for the child only. We proposed that consistently implemented, this infor - We also submitted comments and ob - the method used before 1965 be rein - mation should also be entered into jections to both minority laws. I think troduced, that not only the nationality marriage registries, as it used to be, as that the entire process was more formal of the child, but also the nationality of well as in the registries of the deceased, in nature, it tackled a few ambiguities the parents, be entered, because I be - and then we would have a more precise in the system, and did not strive to in - lieve that national affiliation, above all, record. The new Law also introduced troduce some new rights or improve - is a feeling that is acquired in time. It a significant novelty that MPs in the 3 Minority News Serbian Parliament can speak in their raises the threshold, from 40 to 60 per - paid for national councils, but notaries mother tongue, and also, if a national cent, which we cannot objectively ac - do not work for free. This is a formal minority makes more than 2%, its mem - hieve. There has been an increase of question. On our initiative, the Ministry bers are able to address the republic 4,000 voters in the List, compared to issued the opinion that this provision authorities in writing in their own lan - the previous elections, but we still lack applies to notaries as well. And the guage. Some of the legal solutions we more than 2,000 for direct elections. conclusion is that the signatures should suggested would have greatly helped It is likely that in the next census there be certified free of charge by the Public in resolving some practical matters. I will be fewer members of all national Notary Chamber. will give you an example. Most of our competencies are based To what extent is there interest in the on the provision of opinion on va - Croatian community, especially among rious proposals to the state aut - young people, for engaging in the work horities. Among the most impor - of the National Council, and will this tant ones is the one that relates be seen in the elections, or, more im - to the competition for the distri - bution of funding for cultural and information activities.
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