Professor Vitomir Popović from the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka stated that the Constitutional Court of BiH, in its current composition, is practically not a constitutional court, and its decisions are not applicable and binding for Republika Srpska.
Popović reminded us that the Constitutional Court is based on the principle of the constitutiveness of the peoples, but in its current composition without Serb judges, it has no significance.
Therefore, Popović says, the decisions it makes for Republika Srpska mean nothing.
He also mentioned that this composition of the Court accepts everything harmful to Republika Srpska.
“The Constitutional Court of BiH has changed its own rules to legalize the way decisions are made whose goal is to overthrow Republika Srpska and create a unitary BiH,” emphasized Popović.
Recall that the Constitutional Court of BiH called on the National Assembly of Republika Srpska and the House of Representatives of the Federation of BiH to promptly appoint the missing judges to the Constitutional Court of BiH to enable its smooth functioning.
The session of the Constitutional Court of BiH was held without any judges from the ranks of the Serbian people and was conducted online because foreign judges could not come due to canceled flights.
Already in 2022, Miodrag Simović’s mandate expired, and the only remaining Serb judge, Zlatko Knežević, officially retired at the beginning of this year at his own request.
As of January 3, the Constitutional Court of BiH had two Bosniak and one Croatian judge, as well as an Albanian, a Swiss, and a German, chosen by the European Court of Human Rights.
At least six times in post-Dayton BiH, Republika Srpska proposed a law on the Constitutional Court and insisted that foreigners return to their countries.
Source: RTRS
