By: Nevena Šarenac
A small number of citizens gathered today in front of the building of the BiH institution in Sarajevo in order to express their dissatisfaction with the proposal of the law on the unique master citizen number (JMBG), which was unanimously adopted at yesterday’s session of the BiH Council of Ministers, which will be discussed today in the BiH House of Representatives.
According to the proposed law, the FBiH will have five registered zones, RS will have three, and Brčko District will have one.
The gathered protestors said that the adopted proposal of the law is detrimental to BiH, its citizens, especially young ones. They say that this would actually divide BiH.
Civic activist Nihad Aličković thinks that it is unacceptable for this law to be adopted by urgent procedure.
“The JMBG has to be at the state level. In this case, this would be at the entity level. It is obvious that the decision of the Constitutional Court is not respected, the act is unconstitutional and some people should be punished’’, said Aličković.
He pointed out that depending on the further course of the session of the BiH House of Representatives, dissatisfied citizens could later end up in front of the OHR building.
Bronagh Ćatibušić from the Irish town of Dundalk gave her support to BiH citizens and is participating in today’s protest. She came to the BiH Parliament with her children and her husband Mirza.
She said that during last month’s protest for the JMBG, citizens of Ireland exerted pressure and familiarized their government with the events in Sarajevo and the demands of its citizens.
“We stood in front of the Parliament building and the Irish government. We explained to our politicians that the international community only negotiates with politicians from BiH, but they do not know what citizens of this country want’’, said Bronagh.
