SNSD leader Milorad Dodik said that the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a politically staged inquisition and that he expects nothing from today’s ruling on the constitutionality of the provisions of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina imposed by Christian Schmidt.
Dodik said he was grateful to SNSD deputies in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska for requesting a constitutional review of the provisions of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina under which serious penalties had been imposed on him.
“At the time, I was not even consulted about the request submitted by SNSD deputies. Our people reacted impulsively and logically. But there is no logic here in Bosnia and Herzegovina, just as there is none in the Constitutional Court. It is not operating in full composition and cannot function properly. From a legal standpoint, all of its decisions over the past two or three years are null and void. Someone is still pushing it politically and keeping it alive, even though one day it will be said that it accomplished nothing,” Dodik said before the incomplete Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued its decision.
He said the Constitutional Court had failed to seize the opportunity to show that it is a legal institution that respects and defends the Constitution.
“In Bosnia and Herzegovina, laws are adopted exclusively by the Parliamentary Assembly, not by High Representatives. Unfortunately, those in the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will probably confirm the imposed illegalities today. But we move on. Any legal, political or other violence against key representatives in multinational communities, including against me in this case, is unacceptable,” Dodik said.
Dodik stressed that Republika Srpska had fought Schmidt in this case partly to prevent him from imposing a law on property.
“Regardless of Schmidt and everything negative he has done against us, Republika Srpska will survive. And the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina remains there only to confirm voluntarism, illegality and political executions against Serbs. I expect nothing from its decision today,” Dodik said.
Source: RTRS
