Bosnian Presidency Accepts PM’s Resignation

Unless a candidate for new prime minister is named in a time limit of 30 days, anticipated elections will be held.

The presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Spiric, which means that a procedure for nominating the new premier must start.

The presidency decided to accept the resignation, 12 days after its submission, at an extraordinary sitting, to which Spiric himself took part.

- My personal opinion was that the best thing for Bosnia-Herzegovina would be that Nikola Spiric withdrew his resignation, but he insisted. The presidency accepted the resignation submission, and we decided to start a procedure of consultation with the parties in order to create a new Council of Minister – Silajdzic told journalists.

- I did everything to make of dialogue a deposit for the success of our country in all the reforms. And the harder I worked the more successfully I was surrounded by the international community. The high representative decided for a further disempowerment of the prime minister, although in the reports of the European Commission, it was written that the Council of Ministers could not do anything more – Spiric said, adding that he hopes that hereafter things turn out different.

If the presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina does not nominate a new prime minister in a time limit of 30 days, then anticipated elections may have to be held.

- It could happen that either Spiric passes on the mandate again and that he cooperates in the reconstruction of this Council of Ministers, or that they nominate a new one who will put together a new cabinet. If there will be nothing of this in the time limit of 30 days, then anticipated elections will follow – said Ivo Miro Jovic, chairman of the Contitutional and Legal Commission of the Bosnian parliament’s House of Peoples.