The newly elected president of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zivko Budimir, said a coalition of four parties which last week formed the executive government in the Bosniak-Croat entity, would respect a decision of the Constitutional Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is expected to discuss if the forming of a new government was in line with the law.
"If the Constitutional Court says this is unconstitutional and unlawful, we will accept it and wait for the implementation of the elections to be completed (in cantons) and then repeat the process of forming a government," Budimir said in an interview published by the Sarajevo-based Oslobodjenje daily on Monday.
Budimir, however, said that the central election commission SIP had no authority to decide if the forming of a new government was constitution and lawful, suggesting that SIP's decisions will not be binding for the newly-formed ruling coalition in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) and the Progress Through Work Party (NSRzB) accused SIP earlier of ignoring its legal obligations, as it failed to take any stepsto form assemblies in all cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina a month after the October 2010 election.
The two Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina refused to form assemblies in cantons in which the HDZ parties won a majority of vote and thus influence the negotiations on the participation in the Bosniak-Croat entity government and in the state government.
Budmir said that it was true that in present circumstances the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was turning into a Bosniak entity, stressing however that the two HDZ parties were responsible for that.
