The Council for the Protection of Vital National Interests of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia's Republika Srpska (RS) entity decided that the requests of the Bosniak Caucus at the RS Council of Peoples regarding the determination of the violation of the vital national interest of Bosniaks in the Law on Referendum and Citizen Initiative and the RS Election Law are acceptable.

The RS Constitutional Court announced that the Council discussed the admissibility of these requests, that is, the existence of conditions for deciding on the merits of whether these laws violated the vital national interest of the Bosniak people.

“The Council determined that in both cases the requests in question are acceptable, given that the procedure for laws related to the vital national interest was carried out following the amendment to the Constitution of the Republika Srpska, which amended Article 70 of the Constitution, and that the other procedural requirements have met prerequisites for deciding on the merits of these requests”, stated the entity's Constitutional Court after the Council session that was held on Monday, in Banja Luka.

The announcement stated that the Council will make a meritorious decision on the requests within the deadline set by the Constitution in the next month.

The Law on the Referendum and Citizens’ Initiative and the Election Law of the RS were passed at the RS National Assembly session held on April 19.