The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and the Democratic Front (DF) have initiated a motion to dismiss Elmedin Konaković, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Šerif Špago, the leader of the SDA Club in the BiH Parliament’s House of Representatives, confirmed to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that “an initiative with 11 signatures has been submitted to the Parliament’s protocol.”

As opposition parties at the state level, the SDA and DF jointly hold 11 seats in Parliament, with the SDA contributing eight and the DF three.

The joint initiative claims that Konaković “damaged Bosnia and Herzegovina and its international standing through his unscrupulous, irresponsible, and incompetent conduct as Minister of Foreign Affairs.”

Furthermore, the initiative highlights “previously disclosed messages from the Sky application and schemes from the EUROPOL agency that suggest Minister Konaković’s ties to the global drug cartel ‘Tito and Dino’, which have eroded public trust and confidence from international partners in state institutions.”

Earlier in January, a motion for Konaković’s dismissal was also announced by Dodik’s party.

This dismissal motion follows an announcement by three parties within the BiH parliamentary majority that they have severed their coalition agreement with the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), led by Milorad Dodik, the pro-Russian president of the Republika Srpska entity.

This decision emerged after a session of the BiH Parliament where two reform laws aimed at moving Bosnia and Herzegovina closer to the European Union were discussed. However, representatives from Dodik’s SNSD abstained from voting on the laws.

The three political parties viewed their abstention from voting for the EU laws as “a breach of the coalition agreement, which includes passing European laws and making significant advances on the European path.”

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