Lavić: Negotiations on the Election Law while the state is under attack could be harmful

The announced continuation of negotiations on the Election Law has provoked more reactions. Currently, except for the SDA leadership, no one thinks that negotiations should be held at all until the problem of anti-constitutional activities of the RS is resolved.

‘No one should take part in the talks on the Election Law until the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina unblocks itself from the coordinated anti-Bosnian pact Dodik-Čović. State institutions must work and act, and definitely end with the so-called ‘people’s negotiations’ and ‘people's leaders’, said Senadin Lavić, a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo, on social networks.

Next week, the US and the European administration representatives Matthew Palmer and Angelina Ejhorst, will return to Sarajevo. This means that our politicians are expected to take part in a new round of negotiations on changes to the Election Legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. SDA and HDZ leaders are partly optimistic about possible agreements. However, analysts and the opposition do not share their optimism.

‘On January 23, 24 and 25, talks with representatives of the European and American administrations on changes to the Election Law in accordance with the implementation of the Mostar Agreement concerning the Election Law, legitimate representation of constituent peoples, will be or should be completed’, said Dragan Čović, President of HDZ BiH.

Having received the support of other parties from the FBiH for its position that presumes that there will be no negotiations while the state is under attack, SDA seems to be slowly preparing the ground for continuing its long-begun deal with the HDZ.

‘At first, the answers are hard because everyone finds it difficult to give up what they hold in their hands. It is difficult for one to stand in front of their membership and voters with something that was given away, but in order to get something, something will have to be given, both by us and by the HDZ, said Bakir Izetbegović, President of the SDA.

Doubts about the readiness of the SDA to reduce everything to the agreement of the people were deepened by the vice president of this party, Safet Softić, and his bad attempt to explain to the citizens that a compromise with HDZ is not a betrayal of the state as it is presented in public.