Constitution Committee asked the Government to verify signatures for the COVID referendum

Zagreb - The parliamentary Committee on the Constitution and Standing Orders on Thursday asked the Government to verify the signatures collected for two referendum petitions by the opposition Bridge party and notify Parliament.

The committee also asked the Government to check if the signatures were collected in line with the valid Referendum Act. 

The committee accepted Bridge president Božo Petrov's motion to include at least two representatives of each initiative in the signature counting. One petition was for abolishing COVID certificates and the other for abolishing the national COVID crisis management team.

The committee did not accept a proposal to define a deadline for counting the signatures.

A reasonable deadline would be at least as long as it took Bridge to count the signatures, which is 30 days, Petrov had said.

The Opposition was for tasking the State Electoral Commission with verifying the signatures as an independent body.