Daliborka Milovic, Rasim Mujagic, Zijad Briga, Hamed Bezdrob and Dzevad Dzoza, decided to leave the NSRzB party, founded by the businessmen brothers in Siroki Brijeg, and stated in a press release that they "became Croats overnight" in order to enable the NSRzB and its coalition partners to come to power.
"We are aware that Croats can be represented by real and ordinary Croats," the five people said in the press release, adding that many Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) declared themselves as Croats only to be able to become office-holders in the distribution of posts according to ethnicity.
The five also accused the NSRzB of buying votes in Gorazde Canton in east Bosnia.
Although four months have passed since general elections, the government in Bosnia and Herzegovina has not yet been formed.
The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina insists that parties that won the largest number of votes among their respective peoples should constitute the new governments, while the Social Democratic Party (SDP) believes that Croats could be represented by the NSRzB and the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP BIH), two minor Croat parties that have accepted the platform proposed by the SDP.