In the ruling coalition at the state level, the crisis is at its peak. The union lasted only a few months. Enough for a little progress within the country and on the European road. However, the agreed policy and common goals were ruled by the Law on the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. SNSD’s condition for continued cooperation and the reason for the rift between the partners.
From quick, efficient and unanimous decisions to blocking, communication interruptions and accusations. The road is short, in the state coalition, by all accounts – a crisis. Common principles and goals remained in the shadow of SNSD conditions.
The initial euphoria was extinguished by the Law on the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After a set of European laws, the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina are blocked, and the coalition is under examination. The list of agreements has been exhausted, between the leaders, it seems, there is no compromise and no dialogue. Especially on the route Dodik – Konaković.
“He talks negatively about the RS, tries to present it as a problem, which shows that he has abandoned the policy of joint action. He is no longer our joint minister of foreign affairs with what he is doing around the world”, commented SNSD president Milorad Dodik on the work of Elmedin Konaković, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“He stopped communicating with me the way we used to communicate. I think we lack that communication. I am a communication man. I react when someone overdoes it, and now there was too much criticism of me and I will not allow that,” said NiP president Elmedin Konaković.
Tensions within the coalition, mutual accusations and disagreements were readily welcomed by the opposition. Sessions of the Council of Ministers and the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina without results, they claim, clearly show that the coalition has failed. Only agreements are adopted, and laws are returned to the drawers. For example, the Draft Law on Courts was announced several times and then withdrawn.
“I think it would be correct to come out and say that the ruling coalition does not exist at the state level. We just saw that by overturning all the proposed laws, and in order to start forming a new coalition majority at the state level”, said Džemal Smajić, a delegate in the House of Peoples of BiH (SBiH).
“The idyll of the so-called historic sessions, some apparent progress in European integration, as Bosnia and Herzegovina steps forward, after a few months it is experiencing its final act of drama”, said Dženan Đonlagić, a delegate in the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina (DF).
The opposition’s forecasts are denied by the biggest optimist in the coalition – HDZ BiH President Dragan Čović. The majority that still survives at the state level is enough for Čović to continue, until the set goals are realized. Those that lead to the European Union.
“You have to be patient until the last moment, play slowly. Not to use language that will divide us, but to have a chance to sit down and talk again. Some of the representatives of the international community would like us to hold grudges against each other, we don’t have that luxury,” Čović said.
The coalition has an opportunity to demonstrate the direction it is going on Tuesday. The House of Representatives is in session and urgently. But the agenda does not promise much. Only four points reserved only for the ratification of the agreement. Is this the current maximum range? Voting for agreements that will, in truth, bring money but in practice change little. It seems that while the parliamentary majority is divided by opinions, money and personal interests know no obstacles.
