Radovan Kovačević, delegate of the Serb Club in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, stated that the sole and exclusive culprit for the political and constitutional crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the foreign national Christian Schmidt, who carried out an unacceptable and flagrant attack on the Constitution and the constitutional order of BiH.
“I emphasized this as the key message during my three-day visit to the European Parliament, in numerous meetings with MEPs from Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Ireland, and other countries,” Kovačević said, adding that he informed the European parliamentarians of the fact that the Constitution of BiH designates the Parliamentary Assembly as the only institution competent to adopt or amend laws at the state level, and that the Constitution of BiH does not recognize any high representative.
He also stressed that Christian Schmidt was not appointed as the high representative at all, because there is no relevant UN Security Council resolution in his case, unlike all previous high representatives.
“If such a resolution was never needed, why was it always secured before? I asked my colleagues from the European Parliament whether it is perhaps European practice and part of the rule of law for an unelected foreigner to violate the Constitution, impose laws, and annul decisions adopted by democratically elected representatives in democratic institutions,” Kovačević stated on social media platform X.
He added that he explained to them that this is precisely what happened in BiH, and that this unelected foreigner arrogantly imposed unconstitutional amendments to the criminal code, writing into it that anyone who respects the Constitution but does not obey his personal will should end up in prison.
“And that after this, under an unprecedented indictment in history—one based on respecting the Constitution—BiH’s unconstitutional judiciary was used as a political weapon to take down the democratically elected President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik. I clearly emphasized that this type of political abuse of the judiciary as a direct attack on Republika Srpska is absolutely unacceptable. And that we will not tolerate it,” Kovačević stated.
He stressed that all the steps Republika Srpska is taking in response to this kind of attack are exclusively political, democratic, and institutional, and fully in line with the Dayton Agreement and the Constitution of BiH.
“I also presented the position of Republika Srpska that all other political processes in BiH should be halted at this moment, and that to overcome the crisis, a serious dialogue among key internal actors based on the BiH Constitution must be launched urgently. Unfortunately, I must sadly note that opposition representatives from Republika Srpska—Nenad Grković, MP from the Justice and Order List in the BiH House of Representatives, and PDP delegate in the House of Peoples Nenad Vuković—used every opportunity solely to criticize the institutions of Republika Srpska and their response to Schmidt’s direct attack and the unconstitutional judiciary of BiH, offering themselves as facilitators to ensure a smooth decision-making process at the BiH level and to suppress the response of Republika Srpska,” Kovačević added.
He noted that they mildly stated they were against the imposition of decisions and in favor of OHR’s departure, but without offering any proposal for resolving the problem or a reaction from Republika Srpska.
“In that regard they were mild, but when it came to the response of the constitutional and democratic institutions of Republika Srpska, as one of them openly said, they described it as ‘hell.’ Sadness, misery, and shame,” Kovačević concluded.
Source: RTRS
