Čović: Demand to Abolish House of Peoples Powers Violates Dayton Agreement – HINA

The leader of BiH’s Croat HDZ party, Dragan Čović, described the demand by BiH’s leading Bosniak party (SDA) to abolish the powers of the Federation House of Peoples as an attempt to topple the Dayton Accords.

Čović wrote a letter to EU officials Ursula von der Leyen, Josep Borrell and Charles Michel, Croatia’s President Zoran Milanović, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković, as well as to Western diplomats to inform them about the HDZ-SDA talks that ended inconclusively on Sunday.

He said that the talks failed because the SDA made the electoral reform conditional on abolishing the legislative role of the House of Peoples, adding that such moves would lead to the Federation entity becoming a Bosniak statelet.

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