The parliament of Bosnia's Serb-majority entity Republika Srpska will cast a vote on ignoring the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a session scheduled for Tuesday. According to parliament speaker Nenad Stevandic, the MPs will vote in urgent procedure and the law will come into force two days after its adoption. Pročitaj više

Proponents of the law on non-applying the state court's decisions in this entity are Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik, the entity government, MPs and Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency Zeljka Cvijanovic.

Stevandic recalled that the entity National Assembly last week adopted law changes banning the publication of decisions of the international peace envoy, High Representative Christian Schmidt, in the Official Gazette, which, according to him, “stopped a sinchronysed action of the Office of the High Representative and the Constitutional Court on seizing the (entity's) property.”

He also said that the opposition parties PDP and SDS also supported the “expelling” of the OHR from the Official Gazette, while the conclusions regarding the Constitutional Court got the support of the SDS only.

Milorad Dodik recently set a deadline to the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to annul its latest decision which regulates the postponement of its sessions i.e. annuls such a possibility, threatening that authorities of the Serb-majority region would pass a law on non-implementation of the state-level court's decision on this entity's territory.

Foreign embassies in Bosnia and Herzegovina condemned the adoption of recent laws in RS, calling it unconstitutional.