Ljubo Beslic, the Mayor of Mostar, told N1 on Tuesday that Zeljko Komsic’s most prominent supporters in his bid for Bosnia’s Presidency member were the Democratic Action Party (SDA) and the Alliance for the Better Future (SBB), in his bid for Bosnia’s Presidency member.

In his opinion, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) entity should first form its government before 10 of its cantons start forming theirs.

Bosnia consists of two semi-autonomous entities, the FBiH and the Republika Srpska (RS) entity.

“The only condition the HDZ BiH has is that the State Election be amended. We had the general election without amending the Election Law,” Beslic said.

Bosnia's Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BiH) is the main Croat ethnic-oriented party in the country.

Bosnia and Herzegovina held the general election in early October, in which the HDZ candidate and the outgoing Croat Presidency member lost the race for the seat to the leftist Zeljko Komsic from the Democratic Front (DF) party.

Despite both being Croats, Covic’s party and parties gathered around the Croat National Assembly (HNS), a coalition of Croat parties gathered around same party goals, claim that Zeljko Komsic is not a legitimate representative of Croats in Bosnia because he won thanks to Bosniak votes.

This view is not entirely in line with Bosnia’s Constitution which stipulates that Bosnia’s Presidency members must come from one of three constituent peoples in the country – Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. It does not say members of one people must vote exclusively for the candidate from their people.

Speaking about the local election in the City of Mostar which has not been held since 2008, Beslic said that the agreement on the Mostar local election was kept, but that it is hard to say whether the situation from Mostar is spilling over to the rest of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity.

In 2008, the Constitutional Court found that some articles of the State Election Law concerning the election in this city were violating the State Constitution.

Ever since, the political leaders were unable to agree on the solution.

The same Court also found that several articles of the same Law were inconsistent with the state Constitution.

Since then the authorities have failed to act in the legally allowed timeframe resulting in a further court ruling to delete two sections of the Election Law that treat the matter of representation in the FBiH House of Peoples.