Banja Luka - The Bosnian Serb Socialist Party, a member of a Western-leaning coalition, called yesterday for the quick formation of a new government with broad backing to overcome a political crisis.
The party, whose stand could be decisive, said the caretaker government of its coalition partner, the Prime Minister, Mr Milorad Dodik, could no longer provide "internal unity" in Bosnia's Serb republic, one of the country's two autonomous entities.
Separately yesterday, the ultra-nationalist Radical Party of ousted President Nikola Poplasen proposed Mr Mladen Ivanic, an independent, as new prime minister-designate of the Serb entity.