MPs' May Day lasts five months: New salary is coming, and there hasn't been a single session

(Patria) - The constitutive session of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH was held in December last year. The House of Peoples, due to waiting for the decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH, was constituted somewhat later in February this year, but since then not a single session has taken place. Except for an attempt to convene an extraordinary session due to the situation with migrants. The salary is duly deposited, and every month they find more than 5,000 KM in their accounts. Thus, the fifth (un)earned salary is arriving. It is interesting that no one has ever initiated an amendment to the Rules of Procedure so that, for example, a salary cannot be paid if there has been no session.

The constitutive session of the Commission for the Preparation of the Election of the Council of Ministers of BiH has never been completed, as the leadership of the Commission has not been elected. The date for the continuation of the constitutive session has never been set later.

All that the MPs and delegates have concretely done is hold the 1st session of the Joint Collegium of both houses of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH in the mandate period 2018-2022.

At the session, a number of notifications, letters, and proposals for decisions and conclusions related to the work of both houses of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH were considered. SNSD proposed the former Minister of Finance of Republika Srpska, Zoran Tegeltija, as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Until this is realized, the state can stand still. This is also the official position of the party led by Milorad Dodik, and the elected officials of this party behave accordingly.

Proof of this is the fact that SNSD has not proposed names of MPs for the formation of parliamentary committees, without which the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliament cannot function.
All parliamentary parties, except for SNSD, quickly submitted their proposals for members after the constitutive session. However, SNSD openly stated that they will not submit the names of their members for participation in these committees.