The president of the HDZ and Croatian National Assembly (HNS) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Dragan Covic, said on Monday in Ljubuski that political representatives are still in Sarajevo where they are holding discussions about the Election Law, the Law on Courts and Conflict of Interest, and he also announced a possible emergency session of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH (PABiH) by Friday in order to pass the Law on Prevention of Money Laundering, which is in its final stage.
He adds that it is possible that he will use that session for some other things, if an agreement is reached by then.
”I would not like to think about what could happen if we don’t finish this work that we promised, because if we don’t do it, a lot of problems can arise at the end of March with the functioning of the authorities in BiH. My optimism still lasts because so little needs to be done about the Electoral Law, without being pretentious that someone wants us to keep quiet about the item of the BiH Presidency and calls it political changes. The same is the case with the conflict of interest, and it is the same when it comes to the seat of the Appellate Council regarding the Law on the Court of BiH,” explained Covic.
He says that it is necessary to have strength and make a decision because there is a sufficient majority in both houses of the Parliament to finish it, if not at the end of this week, then at the end of next week.
Covic believes that the representatives of the Croatian people are the only ones honestly leading the European processes, saying that it would not work if there were no representatives of the Croats in the executive and legislative powers at the entity and state levels.
”In this homeland of ours, we must build elements that can protect it in the long term. Everyone directly says that it makes no sense that someone else elects Croats representatives for the BiH Presidency and in the Houses of the People. However, there is a problem when we say we are going to write a piece or a digression. We are not changing anything in the Electoral Law, only in one concept we emphasize that if someone else were to rush to elect the representatives for Croats again, they should not do so. That’s the deterrent. So look at the reactions, as if we are doing something big. It is a symbolic change in an article, and some immediately call it a third entity,” pointed out Covic.
It is unthinkable, he adds, that BiH can function in the long term in such a way that someone chooses a representative for someone or that “two Bosniak members of the Presidency” are chosen.
”We are not making it difficult, we are leading this process. We would not have come this far today if it were not for Croatian politics in BiH. We have reduced the fourteen conditions to three legal solutions, if we are not able to do that then I don’t know what to say,” concluded the president of HDZ and HNS BiH Dragan Covic.
