Why did the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) reject the electoral system? A new meeting should be held next week if key actors are ready. It seems that everyone will be present. But with well-known attitudes.
Five days later. The streets are empty, the guests have dispersed, the sea is calm. The winds are blowing from the party camps. Everyone has their own impressions, but the equation is obviously complex. The only thing they have in common is that the negotiations have failed. Case x, who is to blame, is unknown.
”Because Mr. Covic rejected the model offered by Mr. Palmer and Ms. Eichhorst who certainly wanted to meet the Croatian side,” Bakir Izetbegovic stated, Party of Democratic Action (SDA) president.
Four days of complete isolation. Days later, details on the dropper. Guests arrived with a gift in the form of a proposal: an electronic voting system. What exactly that would mean remains unknown. To recall, late last year Palmer talked about floating constituencies. In Neum, the insiders explain, the proposal has been changed, the units have been turned into electors, but models are still being sought so that they are not divided according to the ethnic principle, with the obligatory deletion of the national prefix.
“They offered that the amendments to the Constitution go in the direction that BiH has three members of the Presidency, that two are elected from the Federation, one from the Republika Srpska (RS), without national determinants,” said Nermin Ogresevic, president of the People’s European Union of BiH (NES).
The proposal was rejected, primarily by the HDZ BiH. Not because it doesn’t suit them. According to the SDA, personal interests and the fact that they do not want to reduce the powers of the Federal House of Peoples are in the background. Old actors, well–known story.
“Covic was wrong when he rejected that matter. And I am quite convinced that specialists, experts, are coming to terms with this solution, and that many are already telling him: Dragan, this should have been accepted,” Izetbegovic added.
“This is a national determinant, three constituent peoples, we cannot erase them from the Constitution. This is a state of three constituent peoples,” said Barisa Colak, HDZ BiH delegate in the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliament.
A new weekend is ahead of us, and consultations are on the agenda. Narod i Pravda – People and Justice (NiP) President Elmedin Konakovic briefly told that he would talk to the presidents of all parties that should participate in the new negotiations. If there is a will there will be a meeting next week. There may be a will to sit down, but the expectations are – from one to ten: three, Izetbegovic estimates.
There are eight months left until the election. Time is leaking, boundaries are not moving. Instead, new moves follow. HDZ BiH will discuss them tomorrow, and the final decision on the boycott of the elections and party activities will be made at the end of the session of the Croatian National Assembly (HNS).
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Source: Federalna
