High Representative Christian Schmidt prepared three decisions yesterday, two of which specifically concern the formation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) Government.
What these decisions will look like in detail has not yet been determined, so the Office of the High Representative (OHR) is currently consulting with representatives of parties from the FBiH, and the last person to speak with Christian Schmidt was SDA leader Bakir Izetbegovic.
Izetbegovic claims that Schmidt will wait for the decisions of the Constitutional Law Commission of the FBiH House of Representatives on potential solutions. However, allegedly everything was supposed to be finalized by last night when Schmidt announced the decisions.
One of the decisions would be short-term and would refer to the fact that the consent of three members of the FBiH leadership is not required in order for proposals for the names of ministers to reach the House of Representatives. It seems that it has not yet been agreed whether only Lidija Bradar’s consent or her’s and another vice president’s consent will be required.
The second decision would be long-term and would refer to the fact that the members of the FBiH leadership can withdraw the veto, but it has not yet been specified whether 1/3 or 3/5 of the votes will be needed to defend that veto in one of the Caucuses of the House of Peoples of the FBiH.
It is interesting that Christian Schmidt would leave a deadline of one year for the parties in the FBiH to pass amendments to the Constitution of the FBiH themselves in the Parliament, and this decision of his would come into force if no agreement is reached within the given deadline.
The third decision concerns “turncoats”, i.e. the transfer of representatives from one party to another, and the goal is to put an end to the vote buying in the FBiH Parliament.
It is still unclear how Schmidt would put an end to this problem, but it is clear that he was prompted to do so by the fact that the SDA has a majority in the Bosniak Caucus, which no one expected it to have, as well as Kenan Uzunovic’s transfer from Fuad Kasumovic’s party to NES two days ago, Klix.ba reports.
