After most Croat deputies in the House of Representatives of the Bosnian Parliament last week warned that they would not accept constitutional changes agreed on by the leaders of seven political parties, they were now joined by Croat deputies from the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Announcements of refusal of constitutional changes came after the archbishop of Bosnia, Cardinal Vinko Puljic, last week openly called on Bosnian Croat politicians not to accept changes agreed on with the mediation of US Ambassador Douglas McElhaney.
Madunic told reporters that the proposed changes were actually a Serb-Bosniak deal that was detrimental to the Croat people.
He dismissed as unacceptable keeping the existing system of voting in the state parliament requiring a majority of votes of deputies from one entity for the adoption of any decision.
The position presented by Madunic is contrary to the position of the HDZ leadership because the party last week once again supported the proposed constitutional changes provided a final agreement on the model of election of the state presidency was reached.
The prime minister of the Bosnian Serb entity, Milorad Dodik, told the local media that the talks on constitutional changes could continue by the end of this week.
What yet remains to be discussed is the model of election of the state leadership after the Venice Commission delivers an opinion on the matter.