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MOSTAR, Feb 26 (FENA) - Representatives of 9 parliamentary parties, i.e. SDA, HDZ BiH, SDP BiH, SBB, HDZ 1990, SNSD, BPS, SDS and DF, met in Mostar on Monday to address the issues regarding the holding of local elections in the City.
At the meeting, several conclusions were agreed upon, which will be the basis for the resumption of negotiations scheduled for 15 days, when, as it was said, the final solution could be found.
The host of the meeting, President of SDA Mostar City Committee, Salem Maric, told reporters that today’s meeting had passed in a very good spirit, which he considered to have been very positive for future solutions and agreements.
The participants of the meeting agreed that local elections in Mostar should be held together with the General Elections in 2018, and called on the Office of the High Representative (OHR) to be more actively engaged in resolving the Mostar issue, because "the Statute imposed by OHR in 2004 is still in force".
- We remind them that Mostar is part of the Dayton Agreement. We both hold and will advocate that a solution should be found for the complete decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH related to Mostar, which implies the harmonization of the Statute of the City of Mostar with changes to the Election Law and not just to the amendment of the two articles of the Election Law - Maric pointed out.
He added that all participants in the meeting had agreed that all changes to the Election Law and the Statute of the City of Mostar must be in accordance with the amendment 6C to the Constitution of the FBiH related to the organization of Mostar.
According to his words, the participants of the meeting also agree with the Central Electoral Commission's conclusion that Mostar must remain an integral, coherent, multiethnic unit of local self-government with a certain level of local government (the city areas).
He added that party officials had also agreed that the amendments to the Election Law for Mostar would be solved separately, and not within the remaining unresolved issues regarding amendments to the Election Law of BiH.
Today's meeting was also rated as positive by the President of the HDZ BiH Mostar City Board , Damir Dzeba, who said that the inter-party talks were a good starting point for further talks, expressing hope that a final solution would be reached at the next meeting scheduled to be held in 15 days.
To remind, the last local elections in Mostar were held in 2008. The Constitutional Court of BiH, by a ruling from 2010, ordered for the Mostar City Statute to be amended in the part related to the electoral rules for the election of the City Council, declaring it unconstitutional on two grounds.
(FENA)
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