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SARAJEVO, December 1 (FENA) - President of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Bakir Izetbegović told reporters after a meeting with US Special Envoy for Electoral Reform Matthew Palmer and Director of the European External Action Service Angelina Eichhorst that today all the representatives of the parliamentary parties that decide on possible changes to the Constitution and the Election Law of BiH were present at the meeting and it was a good work.
According to him, they agreed to start more seriously with talks on the blockades in the Federation of BiH tomorrow morning.
“I think that this is a success that we finally move in that direction to accelerate the negotiations. Unfortunately, there was a line of less resistance, so that only the demands of the HDZ could be met. Now everyone has understood that it will not go like that, therefore we are starting the negotiations on the Federation of BiH tomorrow morning,” stated Izetbegović.
When asked by journalists whether the indirect election of members of the Presidency of BiH is being discussed, he said "we would all rather do an indirect election as it is roughly stated in the 'April package'".
“However, we have a problem from RS. They refuse this. There is no strong explanation or reason, so I think there is still room to persuade the parties in RS, especially Milorad Dodik, to accept it. As for direct elections, it can only be in the way that every vote is equal, that ethnic constituencies are not made, that asymmetric solutions are not made, but that we agree on some such principles, so we can look for the possibility of direct elections,” stated Izetbegović.
He pointed out that the ethnic prefix "must be deleted", adding that it is "the position of the Venice Commission, all of us".
“Even the constituencies or the criteria must not be ethnically based according to what the Venice Commission told us,” said Izetbegović.
Asked whether Dragan Čović agreed to that, he said that "he will have to agree".
Asked to comment on the visit of SNSD leader to Moscow and the writing of a Russian newspaper that Russia's assistance to RS could be reflected in the form of certain military forces, Izetbegović said he hoped "we will not go in that direction and Dodik will not cause the next round of accidents in BiH."
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