Independent Board session cancelled due to Žiko Krunić's illness

Today's session of the Independent Board of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (PSBIH) has been cancelled due to the cold of its chairman Žiko Krunić, reports the Patria News Agency.

The question is whether time is being bought, as the Independent Board has no other option but to act in accordance with the law regarding the Goran Zubac case.

Otherwise, the proposal of the report on the work of this Board for 2014 was not adopted at the previous session. As we wrote earlier, three members (Bosniaks) were against the adoption of the report, while five members voted for its adoption.

Thus, the chairman of the Independent Board, Žiko Krunić, decided that the members of the Board should submit any remarks on the Proposal of the report on work. The problem why three members did not vote for the report is the Goran Zubac case, because in that case, BiH became the first in the world whose director of a police agency sat on the defendant's bench from that position.

Namely, according to the law, the Independent Board was obliged to send a proposal to the Council of Ministers for the dismissal or suspension of Goran Zubac, the director of SIPA, who was conditionally sentenced to a prison term for dereliction of duty when he refused to provide assistance to the Directorate for the Coordination of Police Bodies on February 7 last year, when the BiH Presidency building was on fire.

Indeed, the members of the Independent Board stated that the Independent Board was not up to the task, as it did not meet the expectations prescribed by law regarding the competencies of that body.

And now it is clear that the Independent Board was legally obliged to initiate the suspension or dismissal of Goran Zubac to the Council of Ministers.

However, the chairman Krunić, who is also a friend of Zubac and from the SNSD faction, played a key role, and after a series of reports to the Constitutional-Legal Commission of the PSBIH, he did nothing. In any normal country, he would at least sit on the defendant's bench as a suspended director of a police agency.

Otherwise, the Independent Board of the BiH Parliament consists of Enes Obralija, Ilma Jusufbašić-Mehić, Adisa Begić, Nikola Džambas, Mate Miletić, Mato Jozić, Ljubomir Kuravica, Miroslav Škorić, and Žiko Krunić.