Legal expert and advisor to the President of Republika Srpska, Ognjen Tadić, stated for Glas Srpske that it is high time for the Prosecutor’s Office of Republika Srpska to focus on protecting the constitutional order of Srpska, which is being unlawfully attacked by Christian Schmidt and his political partners from Sarajevo.
Tadić emphasized that, in accordance with the Criminal Code of Srpska, the crime of “attack on the constitutional order” carries a prison sentence ranging from two to 12 years.
He questioned whether Christian Schmidt’s decisions to suspend Srpska’s laws, along with the political-judicial prosecution of the President of the Republic for signing those laws, represent an unlawful attempt to alter the constitutional order.
“Is it not clear that the constitutional order of Republika Srpska does not recognize any possibility of preventing the National Assembly of Republika Srpska from passing laws, nor the President of the Republic from proclaiming those laws?” Tadić pointed out for Glas Srpske.
He reminded that the Constitution of Republika Srpska divides power into legislative, executive, and judicial branches, and defines the President of the Republic as the representative who expresses its state unity.
“The public therefore expects the judiciary, alongside other branches of government, to finally start protecting the constitutional order of Republika Srpska. The public must receive an answer to the question they ask daily: ‘How is it possible for prosecutors in Sarajevo to unconstitutionally and unlawfully prosecute representatives of Republika Srpska, aiming to impose Schmidt’s unlawful changes to the constitutional order, while prosecutors in Republika Srpska silently observe this?'” Tadić concluded.
Source: RTRS
