The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg today overturned the first-instance judgment for discrimination in the complaint filed by Slaven Kovačević against Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Court announced.
The decision was reportedly made at a session of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.
Kovačević complained to the Court that as a member of the Others, his active voting rights were threatened and that as someone living in Sarajevo, in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he could vote exclusively for Croats and Bosniaks when electing members of the Presidency of BiH, but not for the member of the Presidency of BiH from Republika Srpska.
The Court then ruled that BiH must be a single electoral unit when it comes to elections for members of the Presidency and delegates to the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH.
Bosnia and Herzegovina appealed the original decision.
