Negotiations of the representatives of political parties in BiH with the EU Delegation regarding the implementation of the “Sejdić – Finci” ruling are coming closer to an agreement on a direct electoral voting system, where models of electoral districts would be brought in, confirmed members of the negotiating teams of the BiH political parties to “Nezavisne Novine” on the eve of today’s continuing consultations.
Member of the BiH Social Democratic Party (SDP) Lidija Korać explained that at this moment there are negotiations on “direct elections and symmetric solutions”.
“It is certain that the parties are ready for a solution, and SDP will be constructive. If we come to a compromise for an electoral system that would be a direct election, it would allow all BiH citizens to be candidates. This would respect the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights’’, said Lidija Korać, who emphasized that in this process the EU is only a partner and that for now they do not have an official proposal.
“The position of parties from the RS are clear and they are for direct elections’’, concluded Korać.
Milorad Dodik, the RS President and head of the SNSD, recently left open the possibility for electoral elections, and thereby emphasizing how it is possible that a solution is only possible where the RS would be left with one electoral district.
Nikola Lovrinović, the vice-president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) BiH, a party that could have a decisive role in the consultations, confirmed that the two HDZ’s, SDP and SBB, as the new federal four, are the closest to reaching an agreement on direct elections, where modalities of electoral districts would be discussed.
“Our position remains that it be an indirect election, but we are open to all options. At this moment, direct elections are becoming closer, which is not acceptable to us, but with the conditions that no one chooses representatives for anyone else in the future’’, said Lovrinović.
According to him, an agreement should not be expected today or this week, but at the end of the month, so that on 14 April in Mostar party leaders would sign the final text of the agreement with EU representatives.
“Neither for the SDA party and electoral system choice is not acceptable, but it is crucial how the compensating effect would be agreed on at the final election’’, said Halid Genjac, the President of the SDA Main Board and member of the negotiating team from this party.
He concludes that the electoral system incorporates direct election, implies consisting constituencies and is accepted as such.
