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SARAJEVO, February 25 (FENA) - Bosnia and Herzegovina has gone through many crises in the post-war period, but BiH is a vital state and we will surely overcome this crisis as well, stated today Denis Zvizdić, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH in an interview for today's issue of the daily newspaper "Oslobođenje".
However, he warned, it is certainly a serious crisis, "because we are talking about an attack on the constitutional order of BiH by using blockades, blackmail, attempts to hold absolute domination, or an attempt to have someone outside the constitutional norms to act as a key arbiter and supreme interpreter of the Constitution and of all legal procedures in BiH".
He stressed, this is about protecting the Constitution of BiH and constitutionality. Blockades and blackmail that border with direct threats are certainly not the path leading to a solution.
“The only path that leads to a solution in BiH, as a multiethnic country, is the path of dialogue, and it must be solely based on the principles of the rule of law,” says Zvizdić.
The BiH Presidency member Milorad Dodik has already announced that he will submit a request for amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court of BiH in the parliamentary procedure tomorrow, and Zvizdić states that all those involved in politics in BiH will not find any example in the last twenty-five years that a solution was reached through blackmail, blockades, and threats.
“Therefore, this process will not lead to any positive effect. The Constitutional Court is a constitutional category, the competences of the Constitutional Court are not prescribed by any law, but the Constitution of BiH and one of the articles says that the decisions of the Constitutional Court are binding and final.
They are not discussed, they are simply implemented. The RSNA's conclusions, including one that the decisions of the BiH Constitutional Court need not be enforced, represent an attack on the BiH constitutional system.
In fact, we do not have a law on the Constitutional Court of BiH, we have rules of procedure, but this approach in which one-sided or one-party or one-ethnic decision-making on such an important issue as the BiH Constitution is trying to be enforced will certainly not have a positive effect.
There is no such imperative that foreign judges of the Constitutional Court of BiH have to be replaced; as was the imperative norm that after six years foreigners who were members of the Governing Board of the Central Bank should be replaced.
Without the expertise and impartiality of foreign judges, we would turn the Constitutional Court into an ethnic-based court, which is not the goal of a democratic state,” Zvizdić stressed in an interview with Oslobođenje.
(FENA) S. R.
