"A decision has been made to launch talks with the SBiH and our main commitment is integration with Europe," SDA secretary-general Amir Zukic told the Nezavisne Novine daily, adding that this decision also referred to constitutional reforms.
The decision of the SDA leadership has for now removed doubts as to whether the future ruling coalition in the Croat-Muslim entity, along with the SDA, will consist of the SBiH or the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which was also one of the options considered by the SDA, the strongest Muslim party.
The "Oslobodjenje" daily claims that cooperation with the SDP is being advocated even by the party's hardliners, primarily because of dissatisfaction with their partnership with the SBiH.
According to the results of the 1 October general elections, the SDA and the SBiH will have most seats in the House of Representatives of the state parliament - nine each, while the SDP could have five seats.
Despite the relatively poor election result of the SDP, an SDP-SDA coalition could function as part of a broader alliance of parties which have previously worked on a project on constitutional changes.
SDA leader Sulejman Tihic said that he would like to see the establishment of "a government of Bosnian unity".
In such a government there would be room for "all relevant pro-Bosnian parties" that would oppose attacks on the country's integrity, such as a referendum on the independence of the Bosnian Serb entity, Tihic said.
Tihic's proposal, however, was not met with understanding among potential partners.
"The voters have already decided which party will be representative," SBiH vice-president Safet Halilovic said in an interview with the Dnevni Avaz daily.
Zvonko Jurisic, president of the HSP Djapic-Jurisic party, said that Tihic's proposal had no backing in the SDA either.
The leader of the Party of Independent Social Democrats, Milorad Dodik, rejected Tihic's proposal without a second thought.
"It is furthest from our minds to participate in such authorities and fulfil Tihic's ideological goals... We do not want to implement the SDA platform," Dodik said.
Dodik's party colleague Igor Radojicic, who is also speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, voiced concern about a possible coalition between the SDA and the SBiH.
"It seems that the SDA is slowly abandoning the constitutional changes that it had accepted," Radojicic said, voicing fear that the political scene in the country could become radicalised.
The question of constitutional changes, i.e. the fate of a set of constitutional reforms that were rejected by the state parliament in April this year, has become the most important post-election topic.
The leaders of the most influential Bosnian parties have been invited by the NGO Dayton Project to visit Boston in November for a meeting at which they would again discuss this issue.
The US Embassy in Sarajevo has said in a statement that the US administration is not involved in the project although it welcomes such talks.