Bakir Izetbegovic, vice president of the SDA, and Zeljko Komsic, leader of the Democratic Front (DF), sought the support of the Social Democratic Party of BiH (SDP) for the election of the leadership of the House of Peoples of FBiH and president and vice presidents of FBiH, in order to as quickly as possible conclude the process of forming legislative and executive government in FBiH after last year’s general elections in BiH.Izetbegovic told reporters in Sarajevo after his and Komsic’s afternoon meeting with Nermin Niksic, president of the SDP.
The three leaders agreed that it is essential that the House of Peoples at the 30 January session make a decision on temporary financing to enable the smooth functioning of FBiH institutions and interim meeting of obligations to citizens, especially the most threatened categories of the population that depends on payments from the FBiH budget, Izetbegovic also said.
He added that in the continuation of the session next week, if the SDP board decides on Saturday, the date they scheduled their session, to offer support, election of the president and vice presidents of FBiH could happen.
Nermin Niksic, Izetbegovic said, during today’s trilateral meeting expressed interest in resolving the process, although he said that he himself cannot do anything without a decision by his board.
Komsic: Would be good for SDP to be part of solution
“It would be good for the Social Democratic Party to be part of resolving the situation. It can resolve itself in another way, but that would be already a political trade and I do not want to participate in that,” said Zeljko Komsic, the DF leader, just before the trilateral meeting in Sarajevo this afternoon.
Komsic reiterated that the DF stands by its candidate for the position, Slobodan Soja.
He believes that including the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) in this story would not be good, and would like to see the situation “untangled” in any way, with the DF or without it, by the next session of the House of Peoples, at which the Serb vice president of FBiH should be elected.
Any attempt at political unity in Sarajevo is good for BiH, and Komsic before today’s meeting said that in this light he wants to observe the political meeting.
(Source: Oslobodjenje)
