”The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) believes that the change in the country’s election law is exclusively a political issue that needs to be resolved by the relevant authorities and does not interfere in any way in the ongoing negotiations, ” said yesterday the president of that court Mato Tadic.
At a press conference in Sarajevo, Tadic reminded that a verdict was passed in 2016 on the appeal of Bozo Ljubic in relation to the constitutionality of some provisions of the election law, and thus his work for this court was completed.
“We made the decision in 2016 and finished with that, and in 2017 we made a decision that the verdict was not executed. Everything else is not ours but a matter of politics,” Tadic explained.
In this way, he commented on the earlier claim of HDZ BiH President Dragan Covic that the elections in BiH could not be held because the decision of the Constitutional Court from 2016 was not implemented, when the court was declared unconstitutional and the provisions of the election law whichdefined the manner of electing representatives to the House of Peoples of the Parliament of the Federation of BiH (FBiH) were repealed, after the appeal of Bozo Ljubic.
Domestic judges in the BiH Constitutional Court have no problem with foreign judges
President of the BiH Constitutional Court Mato Tadic noted that this court has no jurisdiction to determine how long foreign judges will stay in BiH, but that the Constitution states that after the first five years, the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH (PABiH) can pass a law and regulate a different issue of their election.
“We, like other BiH citizens, listen to those comments and know that some are, and some are not satisfied,” Tadic told at a press conference in Sarajevo, answering agency Srna’s question regarding the general attitude of the Republika Srpska (RS) public about the political and not the legal action of the Constitutional Court of BiH, as well as the requests for the departure of foreign judges from BiH.
According to him, domestic judges in the BiH Constitutional Court “have no problem communicating with foreign judges”, as do the registrar or court staff, especially since they are “experts who were judges in the European Court of Human Rights”.
Parliament to pass a framework law on property and ownership
President and Vice Presidents of the BiH Constitutional Court Mato Tadic, Miodrag Simovic, and Mirsad Ceman believe that issues of ownership and public property in BiH should be resolved at the level of the PABiH, which should pass a framework law on this issue.
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Source: BHRT
