The new Law on the Prevention and Suppression of Corruption in Canton Sarajevo (CS), which comes into effect on January 1st, 2023, prohibits multiple functions at the same time. This means that one person will not be able, for example, to be both a deputy in the cantonal assembly and the director of an institution.
In the previous days, we could hear and see party candidates in the CS who make big promises if they sit on the parliamentary benches, while at the same time performing directorships in public companies or institutions.
Thus, the director of KCUS, Sebija Izetbegovic, is a candidate of the Party of Democratic Action for the CS Assembly. She has already announced a “spectacle” if she gets a four-year mandate as a cantonal deputy. And that’s fine, but promises are one thing and reality is another.
If she gets the mandate in October this year, Izetbegovic would have one more full year of mandate in KCUS. But she will have to choose – the CS Assembly or the KCUS. The reason is the new Law that prevents double functions.
On this occasion, it was checked with the Minister of Justice in CS, Darja Softic Kadenic, what is expected of people who hold the highest positions in public companies or institutions, and who want to enter the assembly of one of the three levels of government. This law, which was recently adopted, prescribes the obligations of public office holders in this canton.
“The law applies from January 1st, 2023. But at that moment, whoever finds himself in parallel positions in CS and somewhere else, regardless of the level of government, is, according to Article 5 of the Law on Prevention and Suppression of Corruption, in a conflict of interest. Conflict of interest must be resolved, in such a way that only one function is performed. The candidate can choose which one it will be,” told SofticKadenic.
The new law, when talking about conflict of interests and incompatibility of functions, regulates what the holder of a public office cannot do during the mandate and 12 months after its termination, because such situations represent a conflict of interest.
During the term of office, the holder of a public office cannot simultaneously perform any other public office at any level of government, and 12 months after the end of the mandate, members of the government, deputies in the assembly, the mayor, municipal heads, city and municipal councilors cannot be directors, presidents of the assembly, members of supervisory and management boards in public companies and privatization agencies at any level of government in BiH, Klix.ba writes.
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