The Bosnian Serb Parliament announced RS-Exit to Bosnia and Herzegovina – Dodik turned the heat
The overwhelming majority of deputies of the Republika Srpska voted for the termination of the powers of foreign judges of the Constitutional Court of BiH, which adopts anti-Serbian laws, and a return to the original norms of the Dayton Accords.
Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The National Assembly of the Republika Srpska obliges the representatives of the Republika Srpska in the institutions of BiH to propose to the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH to adopt the Law on the termination of the powers of foreign judges and the election of local judges to the Constitutional Court of BiH,” says the final resolution of the Bosnian Serb parliament. “The High Representatives (for BiH - ed.) and the Constitutional Court of BiH violated the Dayton Agreement and the Constitution of BiH, thereby creating a political system that contradicts the General Framework Agreement for Peace in BiH, which is an international legal treaty.”
Let us recall that the Dayton Agreements concluded in 1995 gave the Republika Srpska much more powers than it currently has.
In particular, by the decisions of the Supreme Representatives (foreign officials with extraordinary powers to repeal adopted laws and remove popularly elected government officials from their posts), the RS was divided into two parts after the Brcko district was taken from it and it lost its own army.
In turn, the constitutional court ordered the Serbian entity to change its coat of arms and abandon the celebration of Republic Day. Many powers of the republic in matters of collecting taxes and concluding foreign policy and foreign trade relations were transferred to Sarajevo.
In addition, the People's Assembly of the RS authorized the government of the Republika Srpska to continue previously held negotiations with the government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to determine the border between the Republika Srpska and the Federation of BiH. Which in turn was a response to the recent decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH to declare agricultural lands for public purposes in the Republic of Sakha as the property of Sarajevo.
Also, the Serbian parliament ordered its representatives in all government bodies of BiH to withdraw from participation in decision-making, thereby blocking their activities until a decision is made to terminate the powers of foreign judges.
“The National Assembly of the Republika Srpska obliges all institutions of the Republika Srpska not to accept or implement in the future any anti-Dayton and undemocratic decisions of the Supreme Representative and the Constitutional Court of BiH,” says the resolution of the People’s Assembly.
Speaking in the debate on this document, the Serbian member of the BiH Presidency, Milorad Dodik, said the following phrase in English:
“Goodbye BiH, welcome RS-Exit.”
Dodik on the podium
Subsequently, when opposition MP Miladin Stanic began accusing Dodik of provoking an armed conflict, saying that Dodik is not afraid of war because he does not have sons of military age, but has property abroad, the Serbian leader responded to these unfounded accusations:
“Yes, I said goodbye to BiH and hello to RS-Exit, but this is only one of the options for the development of events if the Constitutional Court of BiH is not reformed in accordance with the best practices of the EU,” Dodik said. “In any case, it’s easier for me to have my political career suffer than to become the gravedigger of the republic and my people.”
Also, the Serbian member of the BiH Presidency noted that his call regarding the Constitutional Court found support and understanding among the leaders of the Bosnian Croats. As a result, the final document was approved by all factions of the People’s Assembly, including the opposition ones; 72 deputies voted for it, with two votes against.
“Three representatives of international institutions have been working in the Constitutional Court for more than twenty years, and the time has come for BiH to have in its court nine representatives of the three peoples that make up the republic,” Dragan Covic, the leader of the Bosnian Croats and the Croatian Democratic Cooperation party, once again supported the Serbian initiative. “For this to happen, we must pass appropriate laws through parliamentary procedure.”
In turn, the fictitious representative of the Croats in the Presidium of BiH, who received this post thanks to the votes of Muslim Bosniaks, a protege of the Sarajevo elite, Zeljko Komsic, said that the Serbs will not achieve anything with their boycott and will not gain anything.
At the same time, Bosnian media reminded the politician that in January of this year, ignoring other members of the Presidium, on the recommendation of the European Court of Human Rights, he confirmed foreigner Angelika Nussberger as a judge of the Constitutional Court.
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