6 minutes agoChanges to Bosnia's Election Law and Constitution
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt made a decision on measures aimed at improving the functionality of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entities and ensuring timely implementation of the election results held on Sunday, October 2nd. The package of measures contains changes to the election Law and the Constitution of [...]
The package of measures contains changes to the election Law and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitution. The changes refer exclusively to the post-election institution of indirectly selected organs.
My urgent request for Bosnia and Herzegovina's elected Parliament today is to quickly pass the decision, which has been discussed for more than ten years: execute Sejq-Fici judgments, Zornic and all court decisions in Strasbourg and courts in Sarajevo”, Schmidt said through a statement.
On December 22nd, 2009, the European Court found that the Bosnian Constitution directly discriminates against minorities, not allowing equal participation in democratic elections.
At that world, the case was sent to court by Dervo Sejdic, Roma, and Jakob Finci, Bosniak.
But Bosnian authorities, since then, have not changed the Constitution yet and three sets of general elections have been held in line with it.
As said in Schmidt's announcement, decisions present mechanisms for strictly unblocking and defined “that will ensure the functionality of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
The decision for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina House of Peoples means that each of the constitutional nations (Serbian, Croat and Bosniak) will have 23 delegates instead of 17 as they had earlier.
This distribution of mandates corrects each of the three constitutional nations in the cantons where they live in a smaller number”, says the Office of the High Representative's decision.
