The leadership of the Catholic Church has already expressed strong opposition to the announced changes.
The Bosnian friars, who held a regular election convention in Sarajevo today, joined a lengthy list of those who are against the draft changes which seven major political parties in Bosnian have recently agreed and which are on the agenda of the state parliament's session on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The local Catholic Church fears that the changes would badly affect the position of the Croats, most of whom are Catholics, and that they would be reduced to an ethnic minority as they are the smallest according to the number. Bosnia's three constituent peoples are Bosnian Muslims or Bosniaks (the largest national group), Serbs and Croats.
Bosnian friars say that insisting on the equality of all the three peoples in Bosnia-Herzegovina should not be interpreted as an attempt to undermine Bosnia as their homeland and that threats which may undermine the survival of Bosnia come from "persistent making of compromises with results of the war and crimes".
The friars also recall that three years ago they presented their proposal for organising Bosnia-Herzegovina into entities and leaving the current model of the two entities.
The Bosnian parliament will in the next two days decide whether the amendments to the constitution, promulgated as a result of the 1995 Dayton peace accords, would take effect.
The amendments have been formulated over recent months with the mediation of the United States whose diplomats helped seven major parliamentary parties to reach agreement on the matter
The 42-seat lower house, the House of Representatives, will have this topic on its session's agenda tomorrow. The adoption of the amendments on which the international community also insists, requires a majority vote, and 27 members of the lower house are said to be willing to vote for them. However, the local media speculate that nothing is sure and that three MPs from 'the Yes bloc' have not yet actually expressed their orientation unequivocally.
In the event the amendments are endorsed in the House of Representatives, the 15-seat House of Peoples should also support them by a majority vote on Wednesday.
In the meantime, proponents of the draft amendments and those against them are going full steam ahead with their arguing and campaigns for and against the draft.
The proponents believe that changes will bring the country step closer to European integration processes, while those against fear that the changes will actually cement the division of Bosnia between the current two entities.
In addition, the Bosnian Croat political leadership is divided into the bloc for and the bloc against the changes. The latter fear that the amendments will produce no positive effects for the Croat community.