Oct 21, 2010
Bosnia’s moderate Social Democrats, a winner of October 3 general elections, said Wednesday they wanted to boost the country’s central institutions and give them a clear pro-European orientation.
However, such centralisation is unlikely to be supported by Bosnian Serbs who strongly oppose any strengthening of Bosnia’s joint institutions at the expense of their entity’s autonomy.
“The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is completely ready to form a new, pro-European government,” a party statement said.
“Bosnia-Hercegovina has all preconditions to move faster towards Euro-Atlantic integrations and the SDP is ready to lead it into this direction,” it added.
“The new authorities, led by the SDP, should implement constitutional reforms that would allow the country to obtain unity and fulfil criteria to join NATO and the European Union.”
Since the 1992-1995 war Bosnia consists of two semi-independent entities–the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serbs’ Republika Srpska. Each has its own government and they are linked by weak central institutions.
Bosnia’s central electoral commission on Monday announced final results of the October 3 vote.
In the central parliament, moderates grouped around the SDP won in all constituencies in the Muslim-Croat Federation and became the main force in the new assembly.
With 26% of the votes it should enable the SDP to have eight deputies in the 42-seat house of representatives, the same as the Serb nationalist Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) that won in Republika Srpska.
A coalition between the two parties seem unlikely and SNSD leader Milorad Dodik has rejected such a possibility.
According to local analysts, formation of the new central government could take months.
Ethnic divergences, notably between Muslims and Serbs, have been blocking for several years the reforms needed for the former Yugoslav republic’s approach to the EU.
October 20, 2010AFP
Bosnia’s moderate Social Democrats, a winner of October 3 general elections, said Wednesday they wanted to boost the country’s central institutions and give them a clear pro-European orientation.
However, such centralisation is unlikely to be supported by Bosnian Serbs who strongly oppose any strengthening of Bosnia’s joint institutions at the expense of their entity’s autonomy.
“The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is completely ready to form a new, pro-European government,” a party statement said.
“Bosnia-Hercegovina has all preconditions to move faster towards Euro-Atlantic integrations and the SDP is ready to lead it into this direction,” it added.
“The new authorities, led by the SDP, should implement constitutional reforms that would allow the country to obtain unity and fulfil criteria to join NATO and the European Union.”
Since the 1992-1995 war Bosnia consists of two semi-independent entities–the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serbs’ Republika Srpska. Each has its own government and they are linked by weak central institutions.
Bosnia’s central electoral commission on Monday announced final results of the October 3 vote.
In the central parliament, moderates grouped around the SDP won in all constituencies in the Muslim-Croat Federation and became the main force in the new assembly.
With 26% of the votes it should enable the SDP to have eight deputies in the 42-seat house of representatives, the same as the Serb nationalist Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) that won in Republika Srpska.
A coalition between the two parties seem unlikely and SNSD leader Milorad Dodik has rejected such a possibility.
According to local analysts, formation of the new central government could take months.
Ethnic divergences, notably between Muslims and Serbs, have been blocking for several years the reforms needed for the former Yugoslav republic’s approach to the EU.
October 20, 2010AFP
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