According to a press release issued by the SDP BiH headquarters in Sarajevo, Komsic has sent an open letter to Cardinal Vinko Puljic in response to statements the dignitary made during his meeting with Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader in Zagreb earlier this week.
Speaking of the 1 October elections, Cardinal Puljic expressed regret that the Dayton accords and Bosnian legislation had caused another injustice to the Bosnian Croat people. Asked by reporters if he considered Zeljko Komsic to be the representative of the Bosnian Croat people, the cardinal said Komsic had not been elected by the people but by one party and that it remained to be seen what he would do. Puljic added on that occasion that Komsic had been elected in accordance with a law that was unfair to the Bosnian Croat people.
"Following the developments and artificially caused tensions after the latest elections and in relation to my election as member of the BiH Presidency from among the Croat people, I would like you to answer the following question for the sake of the interests of the Croat people: Is my election as the Croat people's representative in the BiH Presidency a priori detrimental and pernicious for the Croat people and did my election really do "injustice" to the Croat people, as you recently said in Zagreb?" reads Komsic's letter.
At the end of the letter, Komsic recalls that he and Cardinal Puljic have not yet had an opportunity to meet personally and that the Sarajevo Archbishop has not yet congratulated him on the election, which is why Komsic sent the request in this form.