BiH’s main Bosniak party, the SDA, and its main Croat party, the HDZ, have signed a breakthrough agreement on how to rule the city of Mostar, allowing the first local elections in the city since 2008.
Mostar has been politically paralysed for years and run by a de facto acting mayor from the HDZ, whose administration has not been able to resolve an ever-rising number of communal problems.
Wednesday’s deal was signed by SDA leader Bakir Izetbegovic and his HDZ counterpart, Dragan Covic at a meeting in Mostar attended by US ambassador Matthew Field and EU delegation chief Johann Sattler.
