For just one session of the Canton Sarajevo (CS) Assembly, printing materials cost the citizens of Sarajevo more than 15.000 BAM, which is ultimately 500 BAM per deputy. Are these costs justified? Where is the interest of the citizens they represent in that cost?
“This material costs 500 BAM per deputy. And apart from 35 deputies, members of the commission also receive these materials, which is 133 people in 19 different bodies in the assembly. We are talking about 170 people who should receive this much material,“ said Igor Stojanovic, head of the SDP Caucus in the CS Assembly.
Is it more important for our representatives in the CS Assembly to print materials for sessions or work? It seems that it is more important to print, since due to these problems, as it wasmentioned by the current majority in the CS, the last session was interrupted, BHRT writes.
“The rules of procedure have not changed in the last eight years and the procedure is ongoing. That is why we have concluded that until we adopt the new rules of procedure, the materials will be delivered electronically. This is a malicious intention to obstruct the progress of the CS,“ stated Igor Stojanovic, head of the SDP Caucus in the CS Assembly.
The SDA noted that the current majority in CS is trying to challenge the verdict of the Constitutional Court of the Federation, which has determined for the third time that the CS Assembly violates the rules of procedure, the CS Constitution,and also the Federation Constitution. They further pointed outthat the Constitutional Court has determined that the sessions of the Collegium of the Assembly were not convened in accordance with the rules of procedure and that the materials for the sessions were not submitted even in electronic form. Moreover, Devic claims that no deputy received the materials by e-mail. The materials were published on the official website of the assembly.
“They are now trying to relativize it in terms of printing materials. This rule of law has existed since 2012 and it is not at all disputable that we change it as such, as we did during the pandemic,“ explained Mahir Devic, head of the caucus.
The non-governmental organization Istinomjer said that such cases will intensify in the following period, especially since it is an election year, and they emphasized that regardless of the materials that politicians receive, they have not been very active in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for years with almost no results.
”Deputies at all levels of government generally do not fulfill their obligations, do not justify the enormous funds allocated for their salaries, fees, and very few laws bring very few legal solutions that can contribute to betterment. They don’t do much and they aren’t active enough,” told Dalio Sijah, editor of Istinomjer.
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