It is still uncertain whether local elections will be held in Mostar or not, and this difficult political issue seems to remain without solution so far.
Speaking about the Proposal of report on the work of the interdepartmental work group for amendments to the election legislature in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Salko Sokolović, delegate of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, stated that six months have passed in vain in this operation.
“Mostar is a difficult political issue. In order to resolve it, some previous issues such as whether the Constitutional Court of BiH had the right to interfere with foreign legislature must be resolved. Many previous issues must be solved in order for the Mostar issue to be solved,” Sokolović added.
However, the Office of High Representative in BiH (OHR) states that when the high representative enacts a law instead of national authorities, that law is in no way different from those passed by relevant authorities and can be a subject of consideration by the Constitutional Court of BiH at any moment.
“We invite SDA and HDZ BiH (Croatian Democratic Union) to continue with the dialogue, as well as other parties, to negotiate with genuine intentions, with the aim of implementing the judgment by the Constitutional Court of BiH, so that the voters in Mostar can finally elect their local representatives. What we want to see is repeated determination for unified Mostar as a city for all the people of Mostar. Mostar should be a city where fundamental rights are respected, such as the right of the people of Mostar to elect their local representatives. Politicians owe that to the citizens of Mostar,” stated the spokeswoman of OHR Ljiljana Radetić.
OHR states that there is one thing that the international community cannot support – the division of Mostar, and they reiterated that many times.
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