In the past year, a political, legislative and security crisis erupted at the state level, caused by the announced, prepared and organized secessionist activities of the then president of the Republika Srpska entity Milorad Dodik and the highest officials of that entity – said today the representative in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Jasmin Emrić, who was the keynote speaker at the regular session of Circle 99 on the topic “Captured institutions in the function of undermining the constitutional and legal order of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
Emrić emphasized that such policies generated continuous blockades of the work of the executive and legislative authorities at the state level, destabilized political and social processes, and threatened the security situation in the country with the risk of escalation of conflicts between state and entity police structures.
Speaking about the attacks on the constitutional order and the attempts to overthrow the highest judicial institutions, Emrić pointed out that the management personnel loyal to the SNSD and their partners neglected professionalism and put themselves in the position of overthrowing the system.
“This represents a glaring example of captured state institutions that have been passive and weakened to the point that they did not fulfill their legal task in a timely manner,” he said.
He recalled the Transparency International BiH study from January 2024, which foreshadowed the threats and security risks created when the captured institutions do not fulfill their constitutional and legal obligations.
“The judiciary does not have the appropriate degree of independence and capacity to resolve disputes and sanction socially harmful behavior, which leaves room for the creation of tensions and the escalation of conflicts,” emphasized Emrić.
He particularly criticized the decision of the BiH Prosecutor’s Office to suspend the investigation against “Dodik, Višković and Stevandić, who are suspected of attacking the constitutional order”.
“It is an unacceptable precedent and a blatant example of captured institutions that favored political officials. The Prosecution has shown that the political powerful can reach and control criminal proceedings,” he said.
Emrić warned that the “cancer of secessionism” continues to spread through the institutional fabric of the state, exhausting the most important organs to the extent that they cannot fulfill their fundamental function of protecting the constitutional and legal order.
“State institutions are approaching the red line of exhaustion and dysfunction, after which the entire system threatens to collapse,” he said.
He concluded that further passivization of institutions should not be allowed, but rather it is necessary to correct observed anomalies, annul unacceptable judicial precedents and restore professionalism, impartiality and independence as fundamental principles of judicial authority.
“The responsibility of the judiciary is to protect legality, the rule of law and the preservation of the constitutional and legal order of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Emrić, Fena news agency writes.
