"We will respect the Constitutional Court's decision and that is the only comment I can give you," Jozic Ilekovic told reporters who wanted to know if DIP would respond to the Constitutional Court's position.

The response by DIP to the query by the Croatian Democratic Party of Slavonia and Baranja (HDSSB), according to which war crimes convict Branimir Glavas can be the head of the party's election slates, but not its candidate in the forthcoming parliamentary election, does not ensure protection of the fundamental values of the Croatian constitutional state and raises an unacceptable possibility from the point of view of constitutional law, the Constitutional Court said in a statement on Saturday.

HDSSB leader Vladimir Sisljagic previously asked DIP to say whether Glavas, who is currently serving a prison term in Bosnia and Herzegovina for war crimes committed in Croatia in the early 1990s, could exercise his passive voting right as the head of HDSSB election slates, as a candidate on a slate or as the head and candidate on a slate. DIP responded by saying that Glavas can head the party's slates but cannot be a candidate in the election.

The HDSSB decided unanimously on Sunday that Sisljagic would be heading all of the party's slates in the December 4 election instead of its founder Glavas.

Jozic Ilekovic told reporters today that by 4 pm today DIP received 122 lists of candidates to run in the election, including 118 party slates (73 independent and 45 coalition slates) and four independent lists, while another 32 candidacies were submitted for Constituency No. 12.

She said DIP expected to receive more slates during the day on Monday. The deadline for the submission of slates expires at midnight on Monday.

Jozic Ilekovic said the coalition led by the Social Democratic Party and about four other parties had announced that they would submit their slates on Monday morning, while the ruling HDZ party had still not said when exactly it would submit its slates.