Ministers belonging to Bosnia’s leading Croat party, the HDZ, boycotted Thursday’s session of the Federation government. The HDZ is locked in a dispute with the SDA and Democratic Front over the appointment of managers of publicly-owned companies.
The DF wants ministers to appoint the managers of companies in their own sectors while the HDZ insists on the entire government voting on all those issues.
“The DF has to understand that, if they are a part of a coalition, they should behave in that way,” [HDZ vice-president ]Cavara said.
However, he added, the three-party coalition was not in danger and problems could be solved by compromise.
The President of the HDZ, Dragan Covic, said in an interview with the Sarajevo daily Dnevni avaz on Thursday that the SDA and HDZ were at one on this issue. “How can we be in coalition if we don’t have a common stand over key questions?” Covic said.
