In the major BiH Croat news outlet Dnevnik.ba, BiH Croat journalist Jurica Gudelj writes, regarding the negotiations in Neum between BiH’s Bosniak and Croat parties on electoral reform:
If those who gave Bosniak politics the opportunity to oust Croats from the institutions of government in FBiH and BiH, i.e. the Americans, do not force Bosniaks to reach an agreement, an agreement will certainly not be reached.
This then means that the election process is governed by existing, flawed, rules whose outcome is known in advance: Bosniaks will re-elect two members of the Presidency, all Bosniaks and national minorities, a majority of Serbs, and at least one-third of Croats to the FBiH House of Peoples. In practice, this will mean that they have managed to turn the FBiH into their own national entity and the Croats into a national minority with an already predetermined fate of physical disappearance from the territory of BiH.
Because of this, Croat policy should not wait for what will happen with Electoral Law reform, given that what will happen is already clear. Rather, it should, if it is responsible towards itself and the people it represents, begin preparations for (internal) self-determination.
Gudelj further writes, “The Croatian National Assembly will probably soon have to make a decision on the exit of Croats from the state of BiH.”
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