The Croatian parliament on Wednesday adopted a resolution proposed by the far-right Homeland Movement, which the party’s president and deputy speaker of parliament, Ivan Penava, said sends a message that Croatia will not stand by while the “electoral will” of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina is “overridden”.
The resolution urges the Zagreb government to continue supporting “full political equality” for Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including electoral reforms and also “the proposal to establish a separate electoral unit for the election of the Croatian member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency”.
Under the current system, Bosnian Serbs in the country’s Serb-majority entity elect one of three members of the Bosnian state presidency. However, elections for the other two presidency posts, in the Federation entity, are open to Bosniaks and Croats – meaning that the numerically greater Bosniaks can elect both members, in practice.
The parliamentary resolution was supported by 83 out of 151 MPs, while three abstained and one voted against. The centre-left opposition parties did not participate in the vote.
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