The party in power in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated part and the country’s main Bosnian Croat party have been working against Bosnia and Herzegovina, and now they want to destroy the country institutionally, lawmaker in the House of Representatives Semsudin Mehmedovic told N1 on Monday.
Mehmedovic is a lawmaker from the main Bosniak political party in the country, the Party for Democratic Action (SDA).
The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats is currently the party in power in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated semi-autonomous Republika Srpska (RS) entity. SNSD leader and RS President Milorad Dodik has been advocating the secession of Republika Srpska from Bosnia for years.
The Croat Democratic Union (HDZ) is the main party representing Croats in the country and their leader, Dragan Covic, is the Croat member of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency.
The state Parliament has been operating with difficulties in the past mandate, Mehmedovic said.
“We had constant competitions between those in power and the opposition in Republika Srpska over who has done more to strengthen Bosnia and Herzegovina and transfer RS competencies to the state level,” he said.
The majority in Parliament was weak, and it was in jeopardy throughout the past year, he said.
When asked what he thinks about the job the Parliament did, Mehmedovic said there was some progress made, but that a large part of the work remained undone.
“It is not all as we want it to be, but it is as the way it is. However, we did make some positive progress,” he said but added that “many rulings by the Constitutional Court are left unimplemented.”
“Those are difficult political issues and I hope the new majority in Parliament will be based on who is in favour of those Constitutional Court decisions being implemented,” Mehmedovic said.
There are certain powers on the scene in Bosnia that want to block every progress in the country, he said.
“Unfortunately, in Bosnia and Herzegovina there are political satellites of our neighbours (Serbia and Croatia) who have ambitions of blocking and confirming their thesis that the existence of Bosnia is an impossible mission,” he said. “They have worked against Bosnia secretly and now they want to destroy the country institutionally, they want to enter the Presidency and the Parliament.”
Mehmedovic gave the example of the Peljesac Bridge, which neighbouring Croatia is building across Bosnian waters, even though Bosnia objects to it. Bosnian Croat politicians have been advocating for the bridge to be built.
“As for forming a parliamentary majority – I think this year the Federation Government and the Council of Minister will not be formed,” he said.
