Zagreb - Croatia's ailing President Franjo Tudjman missed a Saturday midnight deadline for calling parliamentary elections, meaning they will not be held on December 22nd as planned.
"The president is in hospital and the elections were evidently not called yesterday," Ms Vesna Skare Ozbolt, Mr Tudj man's aide and vice-president of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), said. She said Mr Tudjman's failure to formally call the vote did not mean he was unconscious.