The bill goes to Schmidt too: Legal conditions for dissolving the FBiH Parliament exist, but Bradara does not react

Written by: A. Čorbo-Zećo

After yesterday's debacle in the Federation Parliament, when the tenth regular session of the House of Representatives was interrupted even before the adoption of the agenda, there is increasingly loud discussion about whether the Parliament can be dissolved.

This is a completely common practice in democratic countries, and it is resorted to when the parliament is unable to pass necessary laws.

And the Federation Parliament has been unable to do so for quite some time. Ever since the wrangling over the leadership of the House of Representatives of the FBiH Parliament and its working bodies began.

Thus, the reason for yesterday's interruption was that the conclusion, offered for a vote by the parties of the parliamentary majority, that Mladen Bošković, the Deputy Speaker of the House, can lead this session by authorization of the resigning Speaker Mirjana Marinković Lepić, who incidentally attends sessions and sits next to Bošković, was not supported.

The FBiH Constitution is quite clear when it comes to the work of the Parliament. According to the Constitution, the FBiH Parliament should have been dissolved earlier, given that the Budget was adopted on January 25, and the Constitution states that the President of the Federation dissolves both houses when they fail to adopt the Federation budget before the start of the budget year.

Article 16 also specifies when the Parliament can be dissolved.

"When the President of the Federation determines that the houses are unable to pass necessary laws, he may, with the consent of the Vice President of the Federation, dissolve one or both houses, provided that no house may be dissolved within one year of its first convening."

However, Lidija Bradara, the President of the Federation, pays no attention at all to the problematic parliamentary situation in the Federation, which primarily harms the citizens.

But she is not untouchable either, especially if she does not do her job and fulfill the obligations given in her oath.

"The President or one of the Vice Presidents of the Federation, if they have violated the oath or are otherwise unworthy of performing the function, may be removed by a decision of the Constitutional Court, which acts upon a request of a 2/3 majority vote of each house of the Federation Parliament," states the FBiH Constitution.

Nevertheless, it is unlikely that either scenario will materialize, because obviously no one cares about the citizens. What is important is to preserve power and the chairs that, it should be noted, were secured for the current officials by Christian Schmidt, the High Representative in BiH.

Therefore, the deadlock in the Federation Parliament can also be billed to the Office of the High Representative, as well as to the ruling parties: SDP, NIP, Our Party, and HDZ.

Because it is clear that there is great mistrust among them. The problem lies in waiting for a 'package' in which they will simultaneously resolve the election of Marin Vukoje to the Constitutional Court of BiH and appoint the leadership of the FBiH. HDZ calls the shots, and the 'troika' agrees to everything just to stay in power.