Đonlagić: With Changes to the Rules of Procedure, Laws in Urgent Procedure Would Have to Get Opinion from the Constitutional-Legal Committee

(Patria) - Delegate in the Caucus of the Bosniak People of the state House of Peoples Dženan Đonlagić (DF) was a guest on the show BHT1 uživo today.

He said that the intention of the initiators of today's session of the House of Peoples was to improve and amend the Rules of Procedure in the part that would prevent the introduction of legal content into parliamentary procedure that has unconstitutional elements in its text.

Đonlagić believes that this would lead to a change in one detail – proposals for laws that arrive in Parliament under an urgent procedure, such as the Law on the Constitutional Court of BiH, would mandatorily go to the Constitutional-Legal Committee for an opinion, as a body of the House.

- This committee would provide an opinion on whether the text or content of the law that entered the procedure is in accordance with the principles of the current Constitution of BiH, and the Constitutional-Legal Committee would have that kind of responsibility to provide an opinion based on the current Constitution – emphasizes Đonlagić.

He assesses that the Rules of Procedure have not been changed so far because certain caucuses, as he said, have not detected the danger of the proposed legal content.

– I remind you that two months ago, from the Caucus of the Serb People, specifically from a delegate who, paradoxically, comes from the opposition SDS, and is wholeheartedly supported by SNSD, a proposal for the Law on the Constitutional Court of BiH was sent under an urgent procedure, which, in our opinion, and I think the OHR has also commented on this issue, deeply undermines the current structure of the Constitutional Court of BiH in many of its aspects – in its composition, decision-making process, and structure, therefore, everything that is actually regulated by the Constitution of BiH, not by law.

A political maneuver, a political blow to the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been made here, by misusing this flaw in the Rules of Procedure, according to which laws under an urgent procedure do not go to the Constitutional-Legal Committee for an opinion – explains Đonlagić.

When asked what would have happened if the delegates of the Caucus of the Bosniak People had not left the previous session of the House of Peoples, Đonlagić said that in that case, the procedure would have continued because the delegates from SNSD and HDZ had outvoted the Caucus of the Bosniak People in the process of including that draft law on the agenda.

– We assume that, in the continuation of the procedure, they would have voted for such a law – believes Đonlagić.