Bosniak Vice President of Republika Srpska Ćamil Duraković has filed an initiative with the Constitutional Court of RS to review the constitutionality and legality of the decision of the National Assembly of RS to appoint Ana Trišić Babić as acting president of RS. In his explanation, he stated that the National Assembly of RS is not constitutionally competent to appoint the acting president of RS, but that one of the vice presidents of the republic must be elected as acting president.
“I am not doing this for politics or politicking, but out of an obligation to the Constitution, laws, institutions, but also to people who want to live in an orderly society, and not in a system of arbitrariness. The law must be above every individual, even if his name is Milorad Dodik,” Duraković wrote on his Facebook account.
He assessed that “what we are witnessing today is not just a political crisis, but an attempt to collapse an order in which the Constitution and laws no longer mean anything.” “After the final verdict, which banned Dodik from holding the office of president, we are witnessing an attempt to circumvent this with improvised decisions and fictitious solutions. Republika Srpska cannot be the private property of one man,” he stressed.
According to him, “you cannot create a system tailored to the individual, and then throw laws underfoot when they become an obstacle.” “If the Constitution does not apply equally to everyone, then there is no right, no justice, no people – there is only power and fear,” Duraković said.
He emphasized that he submitted this initiative because he believes that “it is time for someone to oppose the practice in which unconstitutionality turns into a rule, and justice into a threat.”
