Party of Democratic Action (SDA) leader Sulejman Tihic told the press after the meeting this Muslim party still wanted an alliance with the HDZ BiH, while the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina wants the HDZ 1990 as a ruling coalition partner.
Tihic said the SDA would discuss this issue once again in an attempt to find a compromise.
HDZ 1990 leader Bozo Ljubic accused the SDA and Tihic of obstructing government because they did not honour a previous agreement under which their ruling ally would be the Bosnian Croat party which received the majority of seats in the Croat-Muslim entity's parliamentary upper house. Ljubic said it was certain his party, which has so far been openly supported by Croatia's ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), would have the majority.
Commenting on the situation, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, due to visit Bosnia on Thursday, told today's Dnevni Avaz daily that he personally did not have relations with either of the two Bosnian HDZ parties but only with Bosnia's citizens, including the Croats.
"No one has asked for my mediation nor would I accept something like that. Meddling in other states' home affairs is not my policy."
The top Bosnian Serb leader, Party of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) president Milorad Dodik, said there was nothing else to do but wait for the Muslim and Croat parties to agree.
He confirmed that no one was against SNSD candidate Nikola Spiric being the new Bosnian prime minister, but said that his candidacy would be discussed only when it became clear what the new parliamentary majority would look like.