The request to replace Pavlovic was moved by the Croat group. MPs of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) walked out of the extraordinary session.
Moving that Pavlovic's replacement be put on the agenda of the session, Vidovic said it "would be in line with the establishment of a new parliamentary majority" and that it made sense after last week's replacement of the speaker and deputy speaker of the Federation parliament's lower house, from the SDA and the Party of Rights (HSP) respectively, with the leaders of the Alliance for a Better Future (SBB) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Vidovic moved and the upper house adopted a conclusion inviting Federation President Zivko Budimir (HSP) and Vice President Mirsad Kebo (SDA) to resign.
"Fifteen of the 17 Croat deputies want Budimir to be replaced," he said.
The head of the Bosniak group in the upper house, Amir Zukic of the SDA, labelled Vidovic's request as "attempted deception and manipulation".
The request was supported by the Serb group in which the majority of MPs are from the SDP, the new coalition partner of the HDZ BiH. These two parties make up the new ruling majority in the Federation together with the HDZ 1990 and the SBB.
They also plan to replace the SDA's ministers in the Federation government, to which Budimir and Kebo object, so the four-party coalition wants to win the support of a two-thirds majority in the lower house to initiate the replacement.
Earlier today, HDZ BiH president Dragan Covic said the chairman of the state Council of Ministers, Vjekoslav Bevanda, was willing to resign, which would prevent the SDA from blocking the replacement of its ministers in the state parliament's upper house.
"If necessary, Bevanda will resign, the BiH Presidency will re-appoint him as prime minister designate and we will have a new Council of Ministers in seven days," Covic told reporters in Kiseljak.