The Bosniak Club in the Council of Peoples of Republika Srpska has launched a mechanism to protect vital national interests on the Law on Amendments to the Law on Referendum and Citizens’ Initiative of the RS and on the Decision of the National Assembly of the RS on Calling a Referendum, stated the President of the Bosniak Club in the Council of Peoples of the RS Alija Tabaković.
The law defines that a referendum in the RS can be conducted by a commission of the NARS, or an ad hoc commission, and the Decision defines that the referendum will be held on October 25 with the referendum question: “Do you accept the decisions of the unelected foreigner Kristijan Šmit and the verdicts of the unconstitutional Court of BiH pronounced against the President of the RS, as well as the decision of the CEC to revoke the mandate of the President of the RS Milorad Dodik?”
The law and the decision were adopted at the last special session of the NARS seven days ago, after the decision of the Central Election Commission of BiH to revoke the mandate of Milorad Dodik as President of the RS, and after the final verdict of the Court of BiH banning Dodik from holding public office for the next six years.
“The Club will send a detailed explanation of the reasons for initiating the mechanism for the protection of vital national interests to the Council of Peoples of the RS today in order to schedule a session. But, above all, this is about common sense, no one can be placed above the verdicts. Imagine if we now called a referendum and asked citizens whether someone should be held accountable for a verdict that found them guilty of murder, rape or anything else,” says Tabaković.
When it comes to the Law on Amendments to the Law on Referendum and Citizens’ Initiative of the RS, Tabaković says that the participation of the constituent people in the commission is not defined either.
“Our position is that this is an anti-constitutional law and decision,” adds Tabaković.
According to him, a session of the Council of Peoples of the RS should now be held to initiate the mechanism for the protection of vital national interests.
“By all accounts, this will go to the Constitutional Court of the RS,” concluded Tabaković.
