“This Council of Ministers works better both in terms of content and dynamics than we have had the opportunity to see in the past four years. There is new, European energy and a willingness to improve all processes,” said Denis Zvizdic, chairman of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (PABiH), in the Summary.
“It seems to me that this is still not enough. It is below what we expected in the first 100 days. I believe that the Council of Ministers must produce a far greater number of laws and must be particularly focused on the obligations we have on the path to European integration.”
He states that the reasons for the standstill have been present on the political scene for a long time.
Zvizdic pointed out that Dodik has a negative attitude toward everything that means strengthening the state.
“The coalition at the BiH level is the result of the constitutional and political system of BiH, not the selection of partners based on certain value criteria. I think it will work if it is possible to find the smallest common content of the interests of all those participating in that coalition, which should mean the realization of our key goals. There was and always will be conditioning.”
There will be less blackmail because blackmail does not give a productive result
Moreover, he emphasized that the international community is no longer as naive as it was.
“The environment has completely changed, and the geopolitical situation has completely changed so that blackmail no longer brings the results that Dodik expects. So, there will be less blackmail in the future. They cannot give a productive result, but they can slow down processes and cripple both society and the state.”
Zvizdic emphasized that the Parliament should not be just a voting machine.
“It is a place where serious discussions are held. Parliament is not a service, it is a corrective.”
Furthermore, Zvizdic believes that important infrastructure projects that can increase security in the supply of gas to BiH must be the result of serious, professional analyses.
The state will not take on debt to help Dodik repay the debt
When it comes to state property, he says that the fact is that the issue is being resolved by an almost semi-secret commission whose composition we do not know.
“It will not be an acceptable way for some solutions that come from Belgium or some other country, to simply rewrite those instant solutions for BiH as well. What can be acceptable are the following premises on which the law on state property must be based – that BiH is the owner of state property, that decisions of the Constitutional Court on state property must be fully respected and incorporated, an agreement on succession that very clearly stipulates what belongs to whom. The solution of state property in BiH should be identical to how it was resolved in other states that were created after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Therefore, there is no one against that part of the state property that will not be used by the state being lowered to the level of entities, municipalities, and cities, that the holder remains the state, and that these levels of government can only get that property for use. The idea that the state hands over what it does not use to someone else is unacceptable.”
Zvizdic also emphasized that property is an expression of the sovereignty of every state, including BiH.
In the end, he pointed out that all international officials can make a clear distinction between the true representatives of BiH and what Milorad Dodik is doing.
“The state will not take on debt to help Dodik repay the debt,” Zvizdic concluded.
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