The Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina announces early elections for the President of the Republika Srpska for 23. November 2025. years, which will cost 6,460,000 KM.
The rapporteur of the Central Election Commission proposed at the beginning of the session on 23. November for the date of maintenance of early elections.
The discussion of the CEC members was then open, during which Željko Bakalar said the first to support the maintenance of early elections, as well as the date, which is considered as part of the legal deadline.
However, he believes that the elections will be announced only for candidates from the Serbian people, the discrimination of Croats and Bosniaks, who in regular elections, are theoretically chance to be the president of the RS.
However, the second member Jovan Kalaba referred to the same situation when the president of RS died Milan Jelic, stating that even then announced the elections from the candidates from the ranks of the Serbian people. After that, some Croats and Bosniaks filed appeals, stating that they were discriminated against, but the courts refused that appeal against the vice presidents from the ranks of the Croatian and Bosniak people did not even expire.
Therefore, Kalaba believes that now potential appeals would be rejected in the same way, and that the inclusion of Bosniaks and Croats as potential candidates only caused confusion among voters.
The CEC member Vlado Rogić agrees with Kalab, stating that the inclusion of all the constituent peoples in the polls would enable Croats and Bosniaks with a duplic election campaign, without making a substantial difference in election results.
Ahmed Šantić added that there is already elected Croatian and Bosniak vice presidents and that the inclusion of Croats and Bosniaks as a candidate could lead to a situation and the president of the same constitutional people, which is the opposite of the Constitution.
Vanja, Bjelica, addressing the session, explained briefly that he agreed with colleagues who believe that the right to the candidacy should have only Serbs given that it was just a Serb and a mandate. However, it agrees with the cod to in such a situation in the election of only the President, and not the vice president, there is a legal gap. Clarificates that the legal gaps should focus on what the goal is, and that is filled in the vacancy.
The CEC President Irena Hadžiabdić agrees with the codder to allow the candidacy to only limit the right to free elections to Serbs.
She reminded that she was a member of the CEC and the time of legal dilemmas they had when Milan Jelic died and that these dilemmas exist today. Then she thought that the candidacy must be provided to all nationalities, and points out that it cannot change the opinion now, given that nothing in law has changed since then until today.
In the end, they voted for announcing the choice when four were for the two, two against, and one was not there.
They then adopted a decision on the conclusion of the Central Voting List for the election of the RS President, as well as instructions on the procedures for the implementation of early elections, writes Clix.
