Bosnia and Herzegovina has experienced a significant decline according to this year’s perception index – CPI) and with the worst grade 33, occupies the second worst place in Europe.
It is two points less than last year and as much as 9 less than in 2012. year when BiH was among the better rated countries in the region. It is now located on the very bottom of the Western Balkans, which records mild progress on average.
At the last decline in BiH, the collapse of the election process integrity has significantly influenced where serious accusations for election scams are accompanied by several election cycles. BiH is on the CPI in rank with dictatorships in which the government has never changed in the elections. The amendments to the electoral law imposed by the High President did not resolve this issue, as the Central Election Commission has disabled most provisions that needed to prevent public resources abuse and trafficking.
In the country where the evidence of democracy, the government passing the crisis of legitimacy, increasingly increases the pressure on critics. This was especially manifested in the Republika Srpska series of attacks on civil society and by adopting repressive laws that the goal is to suppress the work of independent media and prevent the functioning of the associations that are not under government control. This year’s report emphasizes that the development of democracy and strong institutions are key to an effective fight against corruption. Countries that carry the status of full democracies have the average CPI 73, failed democracy 47, and undemocratic regimes record the average 33, which is also this year’s score of BiH.
The focus of the global CPI survey for the current year is the impact of corruption on the environment. It has been proven that the powerful, which profit from the destruction of the environment, use the money and the power to buy support authorities and suffocate criticism. This is also important in the context of BiH where after tragedy in Jablanica and numerous environmental problems (at the localities of Bistrica, Lopare, Ozren Pit in Modriča, etc.), showed that the profit of individuals authorities are far more important than life, security and Health of people who live there. Data of these BiH in the area of the concessions show that the state generates modest income in relation to significant resources. The benefit of the benefit individuals who avoid paying obligations due to bad laws and non-transparent work of government and come to the possession of state resources to the detriment of public interest.
The catastrophic situation in the judiciary is still the weakest link to BiH, and in the regional report, it is stated that reform laws in preparation still have numerous shortcomings. This is missing the opportunity to improve the appointment process and enable effective assets of judges and prosecutors, and last year’s amendments to the Law on the HJPC they should solve do so. The trapped judiciary has been aloofing results in high corruption processes for years, and despite several court judgments to senior officials in the FBiH last year, the largest affaires are still not lighted.
Because of everything, in front of the institutions of obligations to take urgent reforms. In the extensive study of the National Integrity of Transparency International, it defined steps to combat corruption in areas. Conflicts of interest, system protection of whistleblower, strengthening the operation of the executive, electoral reform, the strengthening of the laws and other law enforcement agencies are the basic tasks in front of institutions, and are corresponding to the European path of BiH, transmits Zenit.
