U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer said Tuesday that BiH must implement its election results as soon as possible, as well as amend its election law.
Bosnia has for two years not managed to find a way to change its Election Law, although it was declared unconstitutional in 2016. The issue has been raised by political parties, most notably the ethnic-oriented Croat Democratic Union (HDZ), whose officials have said that without the changes, there are no conditions for forming the governments in Bosnia after the October General Election.
[Palmer] said that those reforms cannot be imposed by the international community, but that they have to be proposed and implemented by Bosnia’s officials, as they need to have legitimacy.
