The leader of the Alliance for a Better Future of BiH (Savez za bolju budućnost SBB), Fahrudin Radončić, addressed the media after the negotiations on changes to the BiH Election Law ended.
- I must say that all parties - SDA, NiP, SBB, NES - were very united in not allowing them to strengthen ethnically in relation to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We had a lot of suggestions, and we made the greatest result in raising the preservation of the integrity of the elections. We have diagnosed everything where we disagree. As you can see, conditionally speaking, this pro-Bosnian delegation or Bosniak delegation was very united - said Radončić.
He said that he saw some inscriptions stating that the negotiators in Neum were dealing with Karađorđe's betrayal.
- Unfortunately, I responsibly tell you that the fact that we did not agree best shows that we protected a multiethnic, democratic Bosnia and Herzegovina, with full care to really enable the Croatian people to sovereignly choose their authentic representative, but fulfilling this real demand cannot be to the detriment multiethnic and what is called the crossing of some red lines, for which we were not ready - Radončić added.
When asked who is the winner of the negotiations, the leader of SBB said that there are no winners of the negotiations.
- There are no winners in the negotiations, I think we are all defeated with such an epilogue, that we do not have a proposal for legal solutions that would be adopted in BiH institutions. All this can further complicate the already very complicated relations between Croats and Bosniaks - Radončić explained.
He said that there is an option for domestic factors, if there are elements from the SDA and HDZ, to bring their own views closer together, saying that they must negotiate.
- As a responsible man, I do not want to diminish the result, it is a great thing that we have diagnosed problems, listed the checklist of where we agree and where we disagree, but I am not optimistic. If we had not come up with a solution that we would offer to the Parliamentary Assembly with such strong foreign mediators, it would be difficult for us to do it alone.
I am telling the citizens that I have been participating in these negotiations since Brussels, Prague, this has been going on for ten years now, and that nothing dramatic is happening. The elections will be held and we will see that we harmonize these relations as much as possible. The weaker the Bosniak-Croat relations, the stronger Mr. Dodik becomes. That is not our goal and we will know how to adapt here - said Radončić.
He explained in sports jargon that they are close to an agreement, but at the same time far away.
- This was an electoral system that is very potent and I think we should work on it, but at this moment, due to some protective mechanisms that the Croats were looking for, we could not accept it. I hope that we will bring our views closer together and that is one of the great potentials of future negotiations - added the leader of SBB, who did not want to give details.
