ZAGREB, June 17, 2020 - State Electoral Commission vice president Ana Lovrin said on Wednesday that men were insufficiently represented on some lists of candidates for the July 5 parliamentary election.
All that will be established within 48 hours, after which fines will be proposed for slates which did not comply with the Gender Equality Act, she said on the public broadcaster after the deadline for submitting slates expired at midnight on Tuesday.
Lovrin said 192 slates were submitted, 187 by parties and five independent ones, and that they listed at least 2,600 candidates in total.
"We expect that all the valid lists... could be published in the early afternoon hours on Thursday. And then the official campaign begins," she said, adding that the Commission's deadline to publish the valid slates was midnight on Thursday.
As for the COVID-19 situation, Lovrin said the measures would be made public in the week before the election as the epidemiological situation was changing.
