The Croatian Parliament's Mandate-Immunity Commission on Aug. 16 unilaterally and without debate confirmed the end of the MP mandate of Branimir Glavas, who was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for war crimes against Serbian civilians in 1991 in Osijek, reports the Hina news agency.

Commission President Damir Sesvecan said that by the power of the law, Glavas's MP mandate had ceased since the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the Zagreb County Court that he was guilty of committing war crimes in Osijek in 1991.

The law on the election of representatives in the Croatian Parliament states that a mandate ends before the expiration of the time for which the representative has been elected if he or she is handed an unconditional court sentence of more than six months imprisonment.

On the basis of legal decrees and his conviction, it was unanimously concluded that Glavas's mandate ended on the day of his conviction, on which, as Sesvecan said, a report will be submitted to the Croatian Parliament.

In response to a journalist's question on what will happen to Glavas's political immunity, Sesvecan said that issue was not under the jurisdiction of the commission and that another parliamentary body would decide on that.

On the eve of the verdict being handed down in 2009, Glavas fled to Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition to Croatian, he also has Bosnian citizenship which means he cannot be extradited to Croatia.