Amendments to the Election Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, as N1 exclusively announced, High Representative Christian Schmidt plans to impose, provoked the appellant before the human rights court Dervo Sejdic to call on citizens to take to the street Monday.
“If Schmidt does not unite us, the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by his imposition of the racist Electoral Law in the fight against fascism and racism, no one else will. Let's gather in a protest in front of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) until the High Representative rejects his document. I call on all citizens of BiH to come in front of the OHR building at 11:55 am, Monday, July 25, 2022.” Sejdic on Facebook.
There were also calls on social networks for BiH citizens to gather in front of the OHR building on Wednesday.
Dervo Sejdic, a Roma and Jakob Finci, a Jew, have sued Bosnia because the Constitution does not allow them to run for president or member of the upper house of the parliament.
That is because according to the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, the country’s presidency consists of representatives of Bosnia’s three constituent peoples – the Bosniaks, the Serbs and the Croats. Its House of Peoples is also filled with members of only those groups.
That violates the rights of the country’s minorities and in 2009 the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ordered the country to remove this discrimination from its constitution.
Since then, nothing has been done to implement the ruling, which not only concerns minorities but also members of constitutive peoples who live in areas of the country dominated by one of the other two constituent peoples.
Bosniaks and Croats living in the Serb-dominated part of the country, Republika Srpska (RS), cannot run for president or upper house lawmaker either and neither can Serbs from the Federation (FBiH), which is the other half of the country where mostly the other two constituent groups live.
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