Bosnia’s main Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA and the main Croat party, Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, are facing an unexpected challenge – despite their apparent triumph in the country’s October elections.
In spite of their success, leftish civic parties are forming coalition blocs at cantonal and entity level in the country’s Federation entity, leaving the supposed “winners” out in the cold, in opposition.
“We have not stopped them [the SDA and HDZ] from forming governments, but we also said we wouldn’t sit by idly,” Nermin Niksic, head of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, said on November 18.
“That’s why we started forming governments wherever we can get a parliamentary majority,” he added.
