"The HSP BiH is absolutely ready to set up the federal government together with the SDP, SDA (Muslim-led Party of Democratic Action) and the (Bosnian Croat party) "Work for Progress" (NSRzB)," the HSP BiH Zvonko Jurisic said after the presidency's session.
The HSP BiH presidency deems the platform offered by the SDP to be a good foundation.
The HSP BiH and the "Work for Progress" led by the Lijanovics brothers who own a meat-processing factory, won the smallest number of votes in comparison to other Bosnian Croat partiesat the last general elections.
The leader of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH), Dragan Covic said that his party and the HDZ 1990 would impede the establishment of the new government in the Croat-Muslim Federation, which will consequently affect efforts to set up the government at the state level, too.
"It is impermissible that after the case of Zeljko Komsic (who won the Croat seat in the tripartite Bosnian presidency as an SDP representative), votes of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) will have a say in electing Croat deputies in the House of Nations of the federal parliament," Covic said.
The HDZ 1990 leader Bozo Ljubic announced the severance of the coalition which his party forged with the HSP BiH before the elections in the event that the latter unilaterally accepted the platform moved by the SDP.
The Croatian Peasant Party in Bosnia branded such behaviour of the HSP BiH as its readiness to betray Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The NSRzB and the SDA previously said the the SDP's offer was acceptable.
Covic said on Saturday that the offer was an attempt by the SDP to remove two HDZ parties from the political scene, although the HDZ BiH and the HDZ 1990 won the support of 90 percent of the Croat electorate at the general elections on 3 October.