High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council reelects President

He was reelected almost unanimously, as 13 of 14 HJPC members voted for him in a secret election procedure.

Tegeltija, who was born in 1971 in the Serbian town of Pancevo, graduated from the Banja Luka University Law School in 1995 and passed the bar exam two years later. He started his own law practice after completing his internship in 1997, and a from 1998 until 2001, he served as the judge to the Banja Luka Military Court.

After that he was Advisor to the Ombudsman of Republika Srpska (RS), Bosnia’s Serb-dominated semi-autonomous entity.

He was appointed prosecutor at the District Prosecutor’s Office in Banja Luka in 2004, and in 2007, the HJPC appointed him to preside over the Banja Luka District Court.

He was elected as member of the HJPC in 2014.

Tegeltija is also the former President of the Association of Judges in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The HJPC oversees the courts and the prosecution offices in Bosnia, appoints judges and prosecutors and is in charge of disciplinary procedures.