Milorad Dodik is a politician who continuously imposes the rhythm of political topics. Although he is aware that many of his proposals do not even have a theoretical chance, he does not give up because he consciously exhausts and tires his political opponents with various demands.
The last in a series of his demands is the idea that the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopts the Agreement on the full sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Anyone who does not know Dodik and his politics could conclude that there is nothing controversial in such a request. Because Bosnia and Herzegovina is a sovereign state, it would be confirmed by some kind of declaration, and for the purpose of political stability.
However, Dodik does not propose this declaration or agreement because he suddenly became a patriot or because he realized that he will lead a state-building policy, but because of his earlier goals. When this proposal is rejected, Dodik will probably continue the political battle by criticizing the fact that domestic politicians did not support the proposal to free BiH from foreign influence.
Namely, Dodik and his SNSD party have been challenging state sovereignty for years, emphasizing the so-called entity sovereignty. Thus, part of the proposal that Dodik put on the table included the request to immediately expel foreign judges from the Constitutional Court of BiH and to end the mandate of the OHR, that is, the high representative in our country.
Dodik is aware that he will not receive support for such requests, but nevertheless he is trying to establish some phrases in the text of the agreement that he has been building for years and which the politics of the RS are trying to plant as facts.
One of them is the construction that “BiH is composed of two entities”. Although the Dayton Agreement inevitably states that BiH consists of two entities, the phrase “composed of” is used in the narrative of Dodik’s policy. The key detail of such an approach is to persist in the story that BiH is literally an assembly composed of some elements. And what is put together can be taken apart. That is why there is so much effort in trying to use that term.
Further in the proposal, it is stated that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a common state of three constituent nations – Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats and other nations and citizens, and its constitutional structure will be developed based on agreement and consensus as the fundamental values of every multinational state.
And in this phrase you can look for a trap. Although it is inevitable that BiH is the state of all those born in it, that there are three constituent peoples and those who do not declare themselves as such but differently, Dodik tries to emphasize consensus in the constitutional structure. And that could be a very stretchable category, so hypothetically tomorrow someone could call that, for example, the decisions of the Constitutional Court can be considered to have been made only if the representative of each constituent nation votes for the decision, Klix.ba reports.
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