The DPS did not meet the coalition partner, the Bosniak Party (BS), because it refused to support members of minority nations for membership in the Council of the Agency for Electronic Media, even though the candidates had nothing to do with Rafeto Husović's party.
At the session of the Administrative Board, Saša Knežević, the former director of "Pobjeda", who was proposed by the UCG, was elected as a member of the Council of the Electronic Media Agency, on behalf of the university, while none of the candidates from the NGO sector and commercial broadcasters received the necessary support. Although the BS asked to support the candidate from the Civic Alliance, Edin Koljenović, in front of the NGO sector, and Amir Arabelović, in front of the commercial broadcasters, who were proposed by the Association of Commercial Broadcasters, five representatives of the DPS did not support them.
BS MP and member of the Administrative Board, Rešad Sijarić, told "Vijesta" that he was not satisfied with the attitude of the DPS during yesterday's voting.
"When the candidate was voted for in front of the university, we voted for the candidate they voted for from DPS. Later, there was no support from DPS to elect Koljenović and Arabelović, so they did not pass and the procedure will be started from the beginning," Sijarić said.
Sijarić said that minority peoples are very little represented in state agencies, even though the Constitution obliges them to have proportional representation. "The DPS did not have the sensitivity to support it. In that part, we are not satisfied that the coalition partner did not support us. Their explanation was that some laws do not allow it, but the Constitution is above all laws," Sijarić said.
GA Director Boris Raonic said that the voting on that committee shows that the DPS takes the votes of Bosniaks as granted, which, as he stated, "will backfire on them". "It is a question of continuity, which manifests itself through three times less representation in the administration, the attitude towards war crimes and the economic underdevelopment of the areas where they live," said Raonic.
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