TERMS SET OUT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 74, 8 January 1946, Page 4

TERMS SET OUT

BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT

NOTE TO OPPOSITION PARTIES (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Pec. 1.8 p.m.) LONDON, .Tan. 7. Conditions on which the Government was prepared to accept two Opposition members m the Government in accordance with the recommendations of the Moscow conference were set out in a note to the Opposition wings, the Agrarian and Social Democrat Parties, says Reuter’s Sofia correspondent. They include:

(1) The Opposition must approve of the foreign and internal policy of the present Government; , (2) The' Opposition representatives in the Government must consider themselves under an obligation to comply with the basic principles of this policy; (3) The present Parliament must continue until the session ends on March 28 and approve of the State Budget, municipal elections and other laws summoning the Grand National Assembly; (4) Future elections should lie held with separate party lists free of party . coalitions; (o) The parties eventually entering the Government must stop all animosity toward the Government. The correspondent adds that the ‘ Opposition wings t urned down these proposals and submitted counterproposals demanding that the Ministries of the Interior unci Justice should fo to other political organisations so that the freedom of the citizens could be guaranteed, and that new, free elec- . tions should be held, as soon as pos sib lev'