Bosniak party

Friday's appointment of Sebija Izetbegovic, wife of the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, as director of the University Clinical Center of Sarajevo, UKCS, an important medical institute, has caused controversy in Bosnia.

Sebija, who has been director of the Abdulah Nakash hospital in Sarajevo since 2013, was elected at a session of the board of the UKCS on January 6.

The Serbian Democratic Party, which is part of the governing national coalition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said it will present a proposal for a new law on the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The proposal will be submitted during the next session of parliament's House of the Representatives, Aleksandra Pandurevic, an SDS MP, told BIRN on Tuesday.

A key opposition party, Union for better future, SBB, will fully support the government of Bosnia's Federation entity and its reform agenda, party leader and media mogul Fahrudin Radoncic said.

Senior Montenegrin officials have urged the prosecution to take action after the online threats against the three MPs and local religious leaders by the jihadist who claimed to be a member of ISIS, local media reported on Sunday.

Romanian car "unsuitable" for Montenegrin municipality head

PODGORICA -- The president of the assembly of a small municipality in northeastern Montenegro has decided against using an official car received as a gift.

Bosnia's ruling coalition has effectively collapsed after the three main parties in the Federation failed to agree on the makeup of the entity's new government on Sunday. 

This development puts in question the recent agreement on the formation of the new state government, and threatens to push the country deeper into political chaos five months after the elections. 

Izetbegovic's Party of Democratic Action, SDA, the main Bosniak party, and Komsic's Democratic Front, DF, which came second in the Federation entity in last month's polls, signed an agreement on a future coalition on Sunday with the Alliance for Changes, the opposition bloc from Republika Srpska, the country's Serb-dominated entity.

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A high-profile meeting between Bakir Izetbegovic, chief of the [Bosniak] Party of Democratic Action, SDA, and Milorad Dodik, head of the [Serbian] Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, ended without agreement after the Bosniak party made it clear that it intended to talk to other Serbian options first.

Bosnia's main Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, and its main Croatian party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, met on November 4 in Sarajevo to cement alliances concerning the formation of governments in the country following recent elections.

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The main party representing Serbs in Bosnia, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, has called on the country's largest Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, and the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, to start talks on forming a government.