The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and the Democratic Front (DF) have launched an initiative to dismiss the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elmedin Konaković.
"An initiative with 11 signatures has been submitted to the Parliament's protocol," confirmed to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty the head of the SDA Club in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliament, Šerif Špago.
Both the SDA and the DF form the opposition at the state level and together have 11 representatives, of which the SDA has eight and the DF has three.
The initiative signed by these two parties states that Konaković "caused damage to Bosnia and Herzegovina and its international reputation by his unscrupulous, irresponsible and incompetent performance of the function of Minister of Foreign Affairs."
"Previously published correspondence from the Sky application and the EUROPOL agency's schemes indicating Minister Konaković's connection to the global drug cartel 'Tito and Dino' have undermined the trust of citizens and international partners in state institutions," the initiative's explanation stated, among other things.
In early January, Dodik's party also announced an initiative to dismiss Minister Konaković.
The initiative to remove Konaković comes after three parties that form part of the parliamentary majority at the BiH level announced at the end of last week that they had broken off their coalition agreement with the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), the party of Milorad Dodik, the pro-Russian president of the Republika Srpska entity.
The decision was announced after a session of the BiH Parliament, which discussed two reform laws that are supposed to bring BiH closer to the European Union. However, MPs from Dodik's SNSD did not vote for the law.
Their abstention in voting for European laws was assessed by the three political parties as "a violation of the coalition agreement, which implies the adoption of European laws and major steps forward on the European path."
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