Bosnia Presidency Nominates Spiric As PM-Designate Spiric, who remained acting prime minister, last week formed a working group to draft legislation on the police.
Reuters
Bosnia's presidency nominated acting premier Nikola Spiric as prime minister-designate on Thursday, paving the way for his approval by parliament on Friday.
"The decision has been already signed and will be forwarded to parliament for further action," presidency chairman Zeljko Komsic told reporters. Once approved by parliament, Spiric is expected to keep his old cabinet.
Spiric resigned on Nov. 1 in protest at a measure by Bosnia's international peace envoy to reform government voting rules, triggering what analysts called Bosnia's worst political crisis since the end of the 1992-95 war.
Envoy Miroslav Lajcak has said he wanted to end frequent deadlocks between parties from Bosnia's two regions, the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat federation.
The crisis was defused this month after rival ethnic leaders agreed on more efficient voting methods in parliament and on steps to reform their separate police forces.
They were rewarded by the European Union, which initialled a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Bosnia on Dec. 4, the first rung on the ladder to eventual membership.
The deal will be signed once Bosnia delivers on its reform pledges. A key reform relates to the unification of the ethnically separate police forces, an issue that had blocked the SAA for a year.
Spiric, who remained acting prime minister, last week formed a working group to draft legislation on the police.