The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) agreed to cede the Ministries of Agriculture and Labor and Social Welfare to the Bosniak Party (BS), in exchange for its support for Duško Marković (DPS).
Bosniaks will also once again have the vice-presidential post in the government, which will be filled by Rafet Husović. Until now, he was formally in charge of regional development, but he did not have a special budget at his disposal.
This time, Marković and his colleagues from DPS agreed that Husović should receive his "cash", as BS requested.
This is the result of several days of negotiations between DPS and BS, which the minority party will verify tomorrow at the session of the Main Board in Rožaje.
BS planned Vice-President Kemal Purišić for the Minister of Agriculture, and Osman Nurković for the Minister of Labor.
The Presidency of BS previously established a platform for negotiations with DPS, which will also be declared by the GO parties.
Member of the Presidency of the BS, Adnan Muhović, said yesterday that he "advocated and is advocating, as well as a good part of the members of the GO, to talk with both the position and the opposition". "To show in this way the autonomy of BS, and if the majority in GO decides to form a coalition with DPS, we will certainly support it because our priority is to preserve unity in the party and to take those portfolios that are of vital importance for our people and certainly for our party, which are the Ministry of Agriculture, then the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and certainly regional development, but this time as a department," Muhović told Television News.
He indirectly confirmed that an agreement in principle has already been reached with DPS.
"I think it is, and I will say, for the first time, that DPS did everything to "remove" BS's third mandate in these parliamentary elections, and it will really have to cost them this time," said Muhović.
At GO BS, party president Rafet Husović, as he announced, will inform his colleagues about all the offers they received after the parliamentary elections. The opposition offered the minority parties the position of mandate holder, and then to form the government themselves.
They, however, did not declare themselves about that offer until yesterday. Muhović, as he said yesterday, hopes that the unity of the party will be demonstrated at the General Assembly.
Albanians have one ministry, they are still negotiating the platform
Although Marković was asked for two ministries and a vice-presidential position for the political system, the representatives of the "Albanians resolutely" coalition will receive only the ministry for human and minority rights in the new government, "Vijesti" from DPS learns. Albanians led that ministry at a time when the Democratic Union of Albanians (DUA) was in coalition with the DPS, while Suad Numanović (DPS) was the minister in the previous convocation. According to another source from the Albanian coalition, the negotiating team has not yet agreed on anything with Marković. The interlocutor of "Vijesti" involved in the negotiations said that the Albanians and the DPS are still negotiating about the platform and that there was no talk of distribution of functions.
"It is important for us to first agree on political principles, because we do not enter the government for armchairs. Negotiations have their own dynamics and so far we have crossed half of the platform", said the interlocutor of "Vijesti".
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