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SARAJEVO, January 26 (FENA) - While negotiations on changes to the election legislation are underway in the presence of international mediators, the Democratic Front has refused to be part of the process because its leader and chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željko Komšić says Milorad Dodik, it is not possible to participate in the negotiations.
- In addition, we think that it is not good to discuss key state issues at hotels and restaurants, but rather in state institutions. I have warned before that Dodik can only be saved by shifting the focus of the political discussion to changes to the BiH Election Law at the request of HDZ leader Dragan Čović, while Dodik feels completely relaxed and continues his secessionist activities in peace - he added.
He believes that this is happening now, and when he warned about it earlier, he heard, he says, remarks on his own account about collecting political points for expressing that position, but he says that time will show that he was right.
Speaking about the new, and according to many, final, round of negotiations on changes to the BiH Election Law, Komšić says that it seems to him that everything is slowly turning into a farce, which is why he does not believe that this is the last round of negotiations.
- From the beginning, everything was wrong because the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights have been ignored, as well as the voice of the public and most citizens who are against further ethnic divisions, and the official positions of friendly countries are also ignored which lead to even greater ethnic divisions in the political system - says Komšić.
He claims that, as he says, the dose of bias of international officials engaged in that issue in favor of HDZ is noticeable again, which is only confirmed by moving the talks outside the state institutions to Neum.
Komšić is of the opinion that now he is just listening to what the HDZ will say, which "seeks to deepen ethnic divisions and introduce apartheid into the political system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a system that already functions on the principle of limited democracy."
He believes that the fact that Čović says that there can be no talk of reducing the number of representatives at the House of Peoples shows that he does not really want any kind of compromise, but "the capitulation of all pro-Bosnian and civic options before his demands."
BiH Presidency Member and SNSD leader Milorad Dodik reacted to Komšić's speech before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, saying Komšić had given inaccurate assessments of the situation in BiH, but said that Dodik had clearly not read it and did not want to read human rights courts ordering the rejection of the ethnic principle of "constituency" which is clearly stated in the verdict, especially in the Zornić verdict.
- So, if there is reason to be angry, he can be angry at the European Court of Human Rights. I call for the consistent implementation of these verdicts - concluded the chairman of the Presidency of BiH and the leader of the Democratic Front, Željko Komšić.
(FENA) L. N.
