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Cvijanović: State of emergency does not mean suspension of RSNA and democracy

FENA Dušica Stanojević

BANJA LUKA, March 28 (FENA) - President of the entity of Republika Srpska (RS) Željka Cvijanović said today that the declaring a state of emergency in that BiH entity, due to epidemiological situation caused by coronavirus pandemic, "does not mean the dissolution of the National Assembly and democracy."

"That does not mean that there is will be no National Assembly," she said, recalling that after the declaration of the state of emergency in the RS, the RS president has been given new powers, that she could pass decrees with legal force on issues within the competences of the parliament.

She told the media that she hoped that this would be a temporary situation for several weeks, possibly several months.

"It was necessary to introduce a state of emergency because we have exhausted the possibilities that we had in the previous weeks and it is necessary to enter into the legislative sphere now, to change certain laws," said the entity president.

The BiH Presidency member Milorad Dodik also said today that the goal of introducing a state of emergency in the RS was "to make the decision-making process more efficient in emerging circumstances and to tighten measures to put an end to the spread of coronavirus as soon as possible."

"There have been requests to declare a state of emergency since the beginning because we have to make decisions quickly. The state of emergency is not an attack on the freedom of the people; nothing will change for the citizens," said Dodik.

The RS National Assembly today adopted at a closed session a "decision to declare a state of emergency for the territory of the entity of Republika Srpska due to the situation with the coronavirus pandemic."

(FENA) S. R.

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