Delegates in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina held a debate ‘without an agenda’ for several hours at the 12th emergency session, after which six delegates – five from the Bosniak People’s Club and Zlatko Miletić from the Croat People’s Club – decided to leave the session, which violated the quorum.
These six delegates demanded that the 11th emergency session of the House of Peoples, which was adjourned on April 2 due to lack of quorum, be concluded first, and then the 12th emergency session could begin. The session was then adjourned because three delegates from the Serbian People’s Club, who come from the SNSD, left before considering the agenda items related to the removal of SNSD personnel from positions in the House of Peoples of the state parliament and the Council of Ministers of BiH.
“Since you did not comply with our request to discuss the agenda items from the adjourned session, I inform you that the six of us delegates who submitted such a request cannot continue to participate in the work of this session,” said the chairman of the Bosniak People’s Club Šefik Džaferović, after which the six delegates left the session.
The chairman of the House of Peoples, Nikola Špirić, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure, gave a one-hour break in order to try to ensure a quorum for the continuation of the work.
This break was preceded by a debate, during which opposition delegates mainly pointed to, as they stated, violations of the Rules of Procedure of the House of Peoples and demanded that the 11th emergency session be concluded first, and then that the agenda items from the 12th emergency session be considered.
At one point, delegate Nenad Vuković said that “we no longer know which session we are in”.
One of the remaining agenda items from the previous, unfinished emergency session of the House of Peoples is the Proposal for a Decision on the Dismissal of the Speaker/First Deputy Speaker/Second Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, Nikola Špirić, whose proposers are the delegates in the House of Peoples: Nenad Vuković, Želimir Nešković, Ilija Cvitanović, Zlatko Miletić and Kemal Ademović.
The second item is the Proposal for a Decision on the dismissal of the Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH, Staša Košarac, and the Minister of Finance and Treasury of BiH, Srđan Amidžić, whose proposers are also delegates: Nenad Vuković, Želimir Nešković, Ilija Cvitanović, Zlatko Miletić and Kemal Ademović.
On the agenda for the 12th emergency session convened today were the Request of delegate Marina Pendeš (HDZ BiH) for consideration of the Proposal for a Law on Amendments to the Election Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina under an urgent procedure and the Request of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH for consideration of the Proposal for a Law on Amendments to the Law on Financing the Institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina under an urgent procedure.
