Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Savo Minić stated that the incomplete Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has “driven the final nail into the coffin of the BiH judiciary” by rejecting the appeal filed by President Milorad Dodik’s legal team.
“As a lawyer, I cannot comprehend how it is possible that the Constitutional Court — whose task is to protect the Constitution of BiH — in this case protects an illegal, illegitimate, and non-existent high representative, the acts not adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, and the so-called Bonn Powers, which do not exist. I expected this absurd persecution of a legitimately elected president to continue, so the decision is not surprising. This is merely a prerequisite for seeking justice before higher instances,” Minić said.
He emphasized that by acting in this way, the Constitutional Court of BiH effectively legitimized the lower courts’ acceptance of the amendments to the Criminal Code imposed by the illegitimate foreigner Christian Schmidt.
“The very purpose of the Constitutional Court is to correct any potential legal errors. Yet, we now have an illegal and non-existent high representative who changes the Criminal Code outside the Constitution and all legal norms, and the Court of BiH enforcing such a distorted and unlawful framework — all of which amounts to a classic political persecution of the legitimately elected president of Republika Srpska,” Minić stated.
He concluded that anyone celebrating this decision is acting against their own interest.
“This is the collapse of the judiciary and the legalization of an illegitimate high representative,” Minić said.
The Constitutional Court of BiH, sitting in an incomplete composition, has rejected the appeal filed by President Milorad Dodik’s legal team, which sought to declare unconstitutional the decisions of both the first-instance and appellate panels of the Court of BiH that found Dodik guilty of “disrespecting the decisions of the high representative.”
Source: RTRS
