KISELJAK, Oct 15 (Hina) - At its extraordinary session held Sunday in Kiseljak, the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) decided not to boycott the upcoming elections for the senior authorities of
Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The session was chaired by president of the HDZ BiH and member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Ante Jelavic. Voicing their opinion on a decision of the Provisional Election Commission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to BiH on the way of electing representatives to both houses of Bosnia's parliament, participants of the session passed conclusions which demand the cancellation of a decisions of the Provisional Election Commission. The conclusions stress that the decision is anti-constitutional and that it denies the legal and legitimate right of the Croat people to choose its own representatives. "This is the gr
KISELJAK, Oct 15 (Hina) - At its extraordinary session held Sunday
in Kiseljak, the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina
(HDZ BiH) decided not to boycott the upcoming elections for the
senior authorities of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Federation of
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The session was chaired by president of the HDZ BiH and member of the
Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Ante Jelavic.
Voicing their opinion on a decision of the Provisional Election
Commission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) Mission to BiH on the way of electing representatives
to both houses of Bosnia's parliament, participants of the session
passed conclusions which demand the cancellation of a decisions of
the Provisional Election Commission. The conclusions stress that
the decision is anti-constitutional and that it denies the legal
and legitimate right of the Croat people to choose its own
representatives.
"This is the gross violation of the Constitution of the Bosnian
Federation (the Croat-Moslem entity) which stipulates that Croat
representatives in the federal parliament's House of Nations
should be elected by the Croatian benches of deputies in cantonal
assemblies, while Bosniak are elected by the Bosniak benches in
cantonal assemblies," The Croat member in Bosnia-Herzegovina's
three-man Presidency, Ante Jelavic asserted.
He described the Commission's decision as also an attack against
the constituent Bosniak people since in three Croat-populated
cantons, where according to the 1991 census 25,000 Bosniaks lived,
they could not elect any of their representatives for the
aforementioned House.
The Croat member in Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-man Presidency,
Ante Jelavic, on Saturday forwarded a letter to Croatia's top
officials - President Stjepan Mesic, Premier Ivica Racan and Sabor
Speaker Zlatko Tomcic - appealing to them for their support to bids
to alter the recently adopted rules about the election of deputies
to Bosnia's parliament and the Croat-Moslem federal assembly.
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