The European Court of Human Rights has been appealed against the verdict in the case “Slaven Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Sevlid Hurtić, Minister for Human Rights and Refugees, confirmed for BHRT.
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg decided in the judgment in the case “Slaven Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina” that the delegates to the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina must be elected from the territory of the entire state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The court found that the current political system of BiH has made ethnic representation more important than political, economic-social and other issues, and has strengthened ethnic divisions in the state and undermined the democratic character of elections, and that “constituent nations are privileged”.
The European Court of Human Rights found that the combination of territorial and ethnic claims constitutes discriminatory treatment in violation of Article 1 of Protocol no. 12 in the context of the right to participate in the elections for the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that the same applies to the right to vote in the elections for the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In short, the court states that the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina are undemocratic.
