Dragan Čović, leader of HDZ BiH, after today’s session of the Presidency of this party held in Mostar, announced a meeting with coalition partners at the state level at the beginning of next week.
“We are trying to arrange dates, so that we can sit together several times, to enable the BiH Council of Ministers to function normally and make all the decisions that we announced would be made during this month. This would mean that all those laws in the field of law and conflict of interest and the HJPC would be in the procedure, considering that we also have scheduled sessions of the Parliament, for Monday the House of Representatives, for Tuesday the House of Peoples, and maybe there will be an extraordinary session. The goal is to create a productivity, and of course, the Minister of Finance should also be appointed there so from that side we are relaxing one relationship that arose after the last month, two of our non-functioning,” Cović said.
This, he continued, was partly felt in Brussels.
“However, I am happy that our chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers, with her proactivity to the end, I would say, won partners from the European Union with whom she spoke, because, evidently, without the desire to give ourselves some strength that we may not have, formally and constitutionally and with our numbers to lead all European and integration processes and that this is the only way to stabilize BiH. I will continue to do that,” he said.
He expressed his belief that the joint meeting of the leaders at the beginning of next week will give a very precise answer to all these questions.
“We, in fact, want to finish most of the things in the package of 31 activities that we agreed with Commissioner Varhelyi with October, and on the other hand, there will also be the Electoral Law, the Constitutional Court, these are the serious things that we have to deal with every day. My proposal will be that daily communication with the presidents of the parties that make up this package, that is HDZ, SNSD, SDP, NiP and Our Party, to ensure fluidity in the legislative and especially in the executive branch. It will be similar at the level of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina,” he said.
He stated that it will not be easy at all and that it will require a lot of calmness, and meetings will be held in parallel, he said, with representatives of the European and American administrations.
The upcoming meetings will be held in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Čović said that they will not be conducted behind the scenes and that HDZ Bosnia and Herzegovina will host the first meeting.
“It seems to me that we have enough energy to use this time in front of us, to get out of the crisis we almost fell into, because we started completely negatively in one direction. I think it can be done, but we will also need your support, there will be different challenges, because not all, I would say, those who want to deepen this crisis have left the scene, regardless of who they are. Our task is to stabilize both the legal and security framework, especially so that no one rattles guns anymore. Every problem can be solved by political agreement, and please I will ask all my colleagues to leave those difficult words that they often use for various purposes when it comes to communication with the public for another time, so that we can somehow try to be more attentive to each other and give a chance for an agreement,” Čović pointed out.
He also said that it is high time, that is, that it has long since passed, for the formation of the government in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton.
“It’s a bit unusual, because 20 hands are necessary, and the coalition partners with their numbers that they can commit to themselves are, I would say, very modest, so it will again take an effort from the HDZ to try to finish it by the end of next week,” Cović said.
He added that the establishment of government in the Livanja Canton remains, but that it is a smaller problem than the HNK.
