Bosnia's Federation

The Prime Minister of Bosnia's Federation entity, Nermin Niksic, has criticised a police raid on the media outlet Klix as an inappropriate demonstration of police power.

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From January 1, people in Bosnia will be able to choose who supplies their electricity after the country adopted a regulation opening up the market.

However, consumers' associations warn that most citizens are unaware of the change and what it means.

Leaders of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, the main Bosniak party in Bosnia, on December 18 named Denis Zvizdic as the next president of the Council of Ministers, in effect, Bosnia's next Prime Minister.

Police in Bosnia's Federation entity on December 17 arrested Hamdija Lipovaca, Prime Minister of the Una-Sana canton, and a top official of the Social Democratic Party. 

The case concerns allegations of corruption dating from the time when he was mayor of the northwestern city of Bihac.

Deadlines to form cantonal, entity and state-level assemblies were set on November 10, when the Central Electoral Commission, CIK, published the confirmed results of the general elections held last month.

The CIK on Monday gave the winning parties ten days to form the ten cantonal assemblies in Bosnia's Federation entity.

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The Supreme Court of Bosnia's Federation entity acquitted former Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina member Hajrudin Trle of war crimes.

Damir Hadzic and Nermin Niksic, two key figures in Bosnia's Social Democratic Party, SDP, have resigned decision-making posts in the party after its debacle in last Sunday's elections.

At a crisis press conference on October 16, the SDP said an extraordinary party congress would soon choose a new leadership.

A survey conducted by Ipsos and published on October 9 by a Croatian public relations agency showed that the Democratic Front, led by Zeljko Komsic, was the most popular party in Bosnia's Federation entity while Milorad Dodik's governing Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, was leading in Republika Srpska.

Members of the People's Party Work for Progress in Bosnia have criticised the detention earlier this week of their party's two leaders, saying they suspect political influences were at work.

Bosnia's Federation entity, and the power company Elektroprivreda BiH, which jointly own mines in the entity, have decided to close the Raspotocje mine where five people died last Thursday when a quake trapped them underground.