Dodik advised Muslim Bosniaks to resolve internal issues without foreign overseers

The political leadership of the Bosnian Serbs and the Bosnian Croats who have joined them intend to put to a vote in parliament a project according to which three foreign judges of the country's Constitutional Court will be replaced by local ones.

This was reported by the media of the Republic of Sakha and BiH, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“Today, during the day or tomorrow, the joint proposal of the Serbian and Croatian sides will be presented to the House of Representatives and the House of Peoples (BiH Parliament - ed.), We will ask to include it on the agenda,” Dodik said during today’s press conference in East Sarajevo. – According to the bill, instead of three foreign judges, three candidates from the Presidium of BiH will be proposed, the right to approve whom will be given to the House of Peoples. Moreover, as before, two more judges will be elected from the RS, and four from the Republika Srpska.”

Let us recall that until today the West has imposed the following structure of the Constitutional Court of BiH: three judges are appointed by the President of the European Court of Human Rights after rather formal consultations with the Presidium of BiH (in January of this year, the ECHR limited itself to approving the candidacy of only the chairman of the Presidium, Zeljko Komsic, bypassing the rest two of its members), four are elected by the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and two by the People's Assembly of the Republika Srpska.

Traditionally, foreign judges have sided with the interests of the country's Muslim majority.

After the recent decision of the Constitutional Court to transfer agricultural public lands of the Republika Srpska to the jurisdiction of Sarajevo, first the Bosnian Serbs, and then the Bosnian Croats who joined them, who have been demanding proportional representation in the Federation for several years, decided to seek the recall of foreign judges.

“Our proposal also takes into account the interests of the Bosniaks themselves, who will understand this if they stop adhering to the line of rejecting all our initiatives that increase the level of independence of BiH,” Dodik noted.

At the same time, when asked by a journalist whether innovations could overcome the crisis in BiH, the Serbian member of the Presidium replied that “the crisis will end only after BiH ends.”

In turn, the Prime Minister of BiH, representative of the Serbian community, Zoran Tegeltija, said that Serb representatives at different levels of government in BiH supported the resolution of the People’s Assembly of the RS of February 17 - to suspend participation in decision-making in Bosnian state structures without leaving them.

Zoran Tegeltija and Milorad Dodik

Until the bill on termination of powers of foreign judges is adopted by the republican parliament. A special Coordination Council will be created for coordinated actions of Serbian officials at different levels.

“It is clear to everyone except Dodik himself that the main generator of the political crisis for decades has been himself,” it was said in response to today’s words of the leader of the Bosnian Serbs in a statement by the oldest and largest Bosniak Party of Democratic Action, which rallied local separatists at the dawn of the 90s. – The only truth is that the crises will disappear when he and the Union of Independent Social Democrats (the party led by Milorad Dodik) leave the political arena in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After which Bosnia and Herzegovina will remain, and the memory of Milorad Dodik and the SNSD is only a matter of time.”