SNSD party leader Milorad Dodik said that the partners in the government at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina are ready to refer the Election Law of BiH to the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH for decision in the next few days in order to unblock BiH’s European path.
“We regret that there was a deadlock after obtaining the status of negotiator, we came to a situation where we are looking for a solution,” Dodik told reporters after the meeting of the ruling coalition at the state level.
Dodik, answering questions from journalists after the meeting in East Sarajevo, said that technical groups had worked before and that there was a high degree of compliance.
“Difficult questions remain – the position of the Central Election Commission (CEC), we had an agreement on that earlier, it should be reactivated,” said Dodik.
He added that there remains a legal, political, essential constitutional issue – elections for members of the BiH Presidency.
“I don’t want to get out of it, but it should be resolved in the dialogue by the partners in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and they will try to do so in the coming days,” added Dodik.
Nikšić: Election procedures should be the result of agreement, not imposition
The leader of the SDP party, Nermin Nikšić, said that at today’s meeting in East Sarajevo, the government partners at the state level agreed to do their best to be able to introduce the new Election Law of BiH into the procedure in the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, so that the electoral procedures would be the result of the agreement of the domestic authorities.
He said that these parties are determined to try to unblock the European path to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to turn to solving the issue.
“We have always said that what we have achieved so far was to come to legal solutions through mutual agreement, discussion, and compromise, which we will bring, and not which will be imposed,” Nikšić told reporters in East Sarajevo.
He stated that everyone is sorry that after the momentum after the opening of negotiations on BiH’s membership in the EU, there was a deadlock in which the work of the Parliament and the Council of Ministers of BiH was blocked.
Čović: The issue of the Election Law should be resolved in the Parliament
HDZ BiH President Dragan Čović said that the problems in Bosnia and Herzegovina would be solved by the adoption of the BiH Election Law in the BiH Parliamentary Assembly.
“It seems to me that the solution is to adopt the BiH election law by next Friday in the parliamentary procedure, and that would solve the essence of the problems we have today in our normal functioning,” Čović told reporters after the meeting of partners in government at the state level that was held in East Sarajevo.
He expressed his belief that this could also be the conclusion of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly.
“As the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said, a few days ago colleague Nermin Nikšić, colleague Dodik and I concluded that today we need to urgently meet and find a solution to this situation that arose after the opening of negotiations and the imposition of certain legal solutions”. Covic said, BHRT writes.
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