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Post by bosniaco on Oct 19, 2007 14:59:00 GMT -5
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Post by Siroki_B on Oct 19, 2007 19:55:41 GMT -5
About time i say!
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Post by radovic on Oct 22, 2007 10:54:08 GMT -5
Bosnia Serbs Threaten to Walk out 22 10 2007 Sarajevo _ The main governing party in Bosnia’s Serb entity, RS has warned that its representatives will walk out of state institutions, unless planned changes to the government and parliament are withdrawn.
The threat from the Party of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, came on Sunday in response to an announcement from the international community’s High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miroslav Lajcak, to reform the procedures affecting the functioning of the country’s central government and parliament.
According to the Nezavisne Novine daily, senior SNSD officials, including ministers in the Bosnian government, have already written their letters of resignation.
Their move followed Lajcak’s announcement on Friday that he was imposing changes to the law on the central government, the council of ministers, and requesting Bosnian lawmakers to adopt by December 1 reforms on the functioning of the parliament – both with a view to making these institutions operate more efficiently.
Lajcak’s changes mean that Bosnia’s council of ministers can hold sessions whenever a majority of its members are present, and that decisions on certain matters can be made by a majority of those attending.
In future decisions can be passed by the government, as long as the majority includes at least one representative from each of the three constituent peoples – Bosniaks (Muslims), Serbs and Croats – instead of the two currently required.
The second measure, not imposed so far but proposed, stipulates that laws can be passed in Bosnia’s parliament, as long as the majority voting for them includes at least one-third of the deputies from each of Bosnia’s two entities, the RS and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina which brings together mostly Bosniaks and Croats.
Under the current interpretation of the Rules of Procedure, a successful majority requires the support of one-third of the total number of MPs from each entity – regardless of whether they are attending parliament or not.
Politicians in the Federation have welcomed Lajcak’s move which followed the failure of Bosnia’s leaders to agree on police reforms – thereby halting their country’s process of integration with the EU. By contrast, RS politicians are opposed to the changes, and media reported that there was even an initiative underway to take Lajcak to the constitutional court.
Lajcak’s office declined to comment on the SNSD’s announcement, saying they needed more time to familiarize themselves with that decision. Other parties in the RS have reacted in a similar way to the SNSD, calling for unity among all Serb parties in the country.
The Party of Democratic Progress has announced that it will ask for Lajcak’s dismissal. President of the Serb Democratic Party, Mladen Bosic, has called for an emergency session of the RS national assembly.
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Demonel
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I am Jack's regained insanity.
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Post by Demonel on Oct 22, 2007 15:28:18 GMT -5
Prpa, prpa.
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Post by Siroki_B on Oct 22, 2007 20:36:04 GMT -5
The serbs will bit*ch and whinge over the next 2 weeks, but in the end they will accept these measures. Just like they did before, just like they will into the future. The high representitive rules the roost, what he says goes ... to this date no one, and i repeat no one has had the power to overturn the measures imposed by him. You cannot threaten the international community and expect to win out in the end.
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Post by 46and2 on Nov 1, 2007 17:53:13 GMT -5
About time? Where are all the crazy Serbs like BoBThePartisan now? Ode Srpska u pizdu strininu!
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Post by radovic on Nov 2, 2007 12:55:56 GMT -5
If anything the whole thing with these new measures shows Dodik's incompotence. The so-called "April Reforms" included these same (or nearly the same) measures and then he was willing to accept them. If he had any intelligence he would have used this to say look at Sijaldzic their supporting the April Reforms that he campaigned against -- you can't trust him. And then he should have criticized the OHR for doing this since the current measures (old ones) were put imposed in 2000 for the same reason these are now being put in place.
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Post by BIH General on Nov 2, 2007 20:48:27 GMT -5
I just hope he and everyone that supports him goes through with this
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