"Zagreb and Ivo Sanader's policy have brought about the disunity within the Croat political corps (in Bosnia), completely marginalising Croats, as confirmed by the election of the Social Democratic Party's candidate to the (state) Presidency," Covic said in an interview with Sarajevo's Dnevni Avaz daily of Saturday.
He claimed that Sanader's decision to support the establishment of a new HDZ party in Bosnia (HDZ 1990) had been "very thoughtless".
"I hear that he is trying to wash his hands. But it is too late. There are press articles, photographs, TV footage... It is known what happened and what he said."
Commenting on Sanader's and Cardinal Vinko Puljic's joint call on Bosnian Croat political leaders to agree about future activity because it was not too late, Covic said Sanader and Puljic should have done that six months ago.
"I have to say I was sad as I watched on TV, after such division among Croats in Bosnia and Zeljko Komsic's election to the state leadership, how Cardinal Puljic and Sanader laughed and expressed satisfaction with the results of the elections in Bosnia. These people evidently don't understand the processes in Bosnia."
Covic said the same lack of understanding for the Bosnian situation had been shown by everyone who formed parties and coalitions with the goal to topple HDZ BiH. They toppled and damaged themselves and the Bosnian Croat people suffer for it, he said.
Asked if HDZ BiH intended to form a coalition with HDZ 1990, Covic said that was a "provocation" and that it was impossible to form an alliance with those who had dug "dirt incomprehensible to the common sense" during the parliamentary election campaign.
He confirmed that HDZ BiH's natural coalition partners among Muslim parties were the Party of Democratic Action and the Party for BiH as they won the majority of the Bosnian Muslim vote.