Law ending mandate of top judicial instution officials passes lower chamber vote

Of the 35 MPs who voted, 24 voted in favour and 11 against the law which was proposed by MP and former Security Minister Dragan Mektic.

However, it is expected that the law will not pass the House of Peoples.

According to the law proposal, the mandates of the members of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC), the institution overseeing Bosnia's judiciary which appoints and disciplines judges and prosecutors, would end on June 15. New members of the Council would then have to be named by June 8.

Apart from the head of the institution, Milan Tegeltija, the members of the HJPC are Jadranka Lokmic-Misiraca, Ruzica Jukic, Jadranka Stanisic, Goran Nezirovic, Mahmut Svraka, Slavo Lakic, Zeljka Radovic, Duska Bogojevic, Berina Alihodzic, Selim Karamehic, Dragomir Vukoje, Amila-Mimica Kunosic, Monika Mijic and Milijana Buha.