Despite ongoing negotiations, Bosniak and Croat parties have failed to reach consensus on new election rules in response to the Sejdic-Finci decision. A meeting of all BiH leaders is scheduled for tomorrow in Brussels, following an October 1 meeting that produced a set of agreed-upon principles.
The party leaders of the Croat Democratic Union, HDZ, its sister party HDZ 1990, Party of Democratic Action, SDA, Alliance for a Better Future, SBB, and the Social Democratic Party, SDP, discussed several models for a solution with the head of EU delegation to Bosnia, Peter Sorensen.
“There were many attempts and analysis of all of the proposed models so far,” said Dragan Covic of the HDZ, adding that the talks will continue in Brussels before the meeting with Fule.
The two ruling Serb parties, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, and the Serb Democratic Party, SDS, did not participate in the Tuesday meeting because one of the previously agreed principles is that one member of the country’s tripartite presidency will be chosen directly from Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity, but without being pre-defined as a Serb.
Serb parties have said they are willing to accept whatever solution Federation leaders establish for elections in that entity. The European Union has warned that BiH elections planned for 2014 could be put in jeopardy if Federation leaders can’t reach an agreement this year.
