The EU Foreign Affairs council will on Monday thoroughly analyse the general election held in Bosnia in October, in an effort to resolve the status of the Croat people in the country, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in parliament on Wednesday.

Plenkovic said he was satisfied with the way his stance on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the status of the Croat people was accepted at the EU summit in Brussels in October.

Within the framework of foreign affairs, Plenkovic spoke about Bosnia and Herzegovina following the 7 October general election in that country.

The three members of Bosnia’s Presidency, who each represent one of the three ethnic majorities in the country, Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, are elected from the two semi-autonomous entities in the country. The Serb representative is elected from the Republika Srpska (RS) entity, and the Bosniak and Croat representatives from the other, Federation (FBiH) entity.

But since Bosniaks are numerically dominant in FBiH, it allows them to elect the representative for Bosnian Croats.

In October, leader of the Democratic Front (DF) Zeljko Komsic was elected to the Bosnian Croat seat. However, Komsic’s legitimacy is contested by all the major Croat parties in the country saying that his election was not legitimate because he was not elected by Croats, but by Bosniaks.

“We consider that it is not good to have that situation, which seems to be unjust and which makes it appear as if the Croat people in Bosnia and Herzegovina are marginalised and put in a subordinate position,” Plenkovic said.

He said that Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of European Affairs, Marija Pejcinovic-Buric, will speak on behalf of Croatia at the Foreign Affairs Council at the meeting on Monday.

She will “assess the analysis of the general election in Bosnia and Herzegovina in detail” and consider what the EU and its member states can do as part of their dialogue with Bosnian institutions and political parties to solve the issue.

Plenkovic said that the meeting in no way means interfering in the affairs of another country, but that Croatia legitimately advocates the compliance with the Dayton accord, of which it is a cosignatory.

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