President Zoran Milanovic on Tuesday said that "outvoting ethnic Croats" in Bosnian elections would "come to an end" and that ethnic Bosniak politicians are to blame for the "misfortune in BiH," state agency Hina reported.

The Bosniak member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite Presidency, Sefik Dzaferovic, said on Monday that Croatian pesident  was behaving like “a rude guest in someone else’s house,” following his earlier remarks made in Bosnia on the first day of his three-day visit.

Milanovic stopped by in the towns of Vitez and Mostar, but not the country’s capital of Sarajevo. Dzaferovic “insisted that Milanovic only came to Bosnia to cause problems and incidents,” Croatia’s state agency  Hina said.

“No, no. They are the cause of political instability, nervousness, and misfortune in BiH. They are doing exactly what Haris Silajdzic warned about, 15 years ago when he said ‘if you continue like that, you will make the Croats abhor this country that is their homeland’,” Milanovic told reporters in Livno.

Hina did not explain who Haris Silajdzic was.

Commenting on Dzaferovic’s statement that he needn’t come if he was going to behave like that, Milanovic said that he was a guest in Bosnia to those people who welcomed him.”

“My hosts are the democratic authorities and the Franciscans,” said Milanovic.

During the three-day working visit to BiH, Milanovic visited the towns mainly populated by Bosnian Croats:  Vitez, Mostar, Ljubuski, Tomislavgrad, and Livno. He visited the local Franciscan monasteries and said that the biggest gratitude for preserving the Croatian heritage went to the local friars.

Milanovic said that the biggest problem is the “outvoting of Croats and imposing Zeljko Komsic as the Croat member of the tripartite presidency” who was voted in with Bosniak votes, as well as attempts to achieve the same thing in the upper house – the House of People’s in the country’s parliament.

“The seats designated for Croats in the House of Peoples are being taken by people who aren’t Croats, or are lying that they are, and they are elected by another ethnic group. That is the same template as in the presidency. The same story. And that has to come to an end,” he said.

Asked why then did he attend a campaign rally of Komsic’s Social Democrats in 2010 and supported Komsic, Milanovic – a former leader of Croatia’s Social Democrats – said he had been “tricked.”

“That isn’t a change in policy but rather a policy of maturing and realizing someone’s false nature. I haven’t changed, but they are despicable,” said Milanovic.