No agreement on the reform of electoral legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is possible at this moment, and talks should continue only after the general election in October, the leader of the ruling Bosniak SDA party, Bakir Izetbegović, said on Sunday.
He said that negotiations on the electoral reform had fallen through because the leadership of the Bosnian Croat HDZ BiH party had “too ambitious plans” about amendments that should be adopted. He added that the HDZ BiH’s strategy was wrong because it was based on the blockade of the Bosniak-Croat Federation entity, cooperation with Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and pressure on the SDA and Bosniaks.
Commenting on the announcement that a senior EU official would come to Sarajevo this month when the question of the electoral reform could be raised again, Izetbegović said that nothing would come of it and that he was certain that there would be no pressure to reach an agreement before the 2 October election.
Izetbegović said that the electoral reform would be discussed “as soon as a new post-election coalition is formed.”, Hina writes.
