CITIZENS’ OPINIONS ONSTATE-LEVEL CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM in Bosnia and Herzegovina

1000 CITIZENS20

QUESTIONS

2013JULY

88%OF RESPONDENTS

SUPPORT state-levelconstitutional reform

98.5%

91.5%

79.5% 87.6%BRCKORS SERB

FBIH CROAT

FBIH BOSNIAK

36.4%to ensure EQUALITY of

ALL CITIZENS

Several civic, political and international proposals for constitutional reform

have FAILED TO ACHIEVE ANY PROGRESS.For example:

to reform the state level constitution were submitted by CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS

3PROPOSALS

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Law Institute in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2006

Alumni Association Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies

Forum of Tuzla Citizens

fromPOLITICALPARTIES6

PROPOSALS

• SNSD and SDS Proposal of Amendments to the Constitution of BIH

HDZ 1990 Platform for a New Constitution of BIH

HDZ BIH Amendments to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Regards to the Implementation of the Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in the Case of Sejdić-Finci versus Bosnia and Herzegovina

SDA Proposal of Amendments to the Constitution of BiH

the Prud Process(PARTIALLY)

the April Package

SDA Proposal of Amendments to the Constitution of BiH

• HDZ and HDZ 1990 Proposal of Amendment to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina

All of these were packages of reform that failed to attract sufficient political and citizens’ support.

STATE-LEVELCONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

“It is desirable for the citizens at some stage to decide to have an entirely new constitution based on their own wishes and drafted during a period without ethnic strife.

The ultimate goal should be to have democratically legitimate constitutions prepared with the participation of all political forces and civil society in a public and transparent process.”

(Venice Commission, Opinion on the Constitutional Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Powers of the High Representative, 2005)

71.5%so that BIH can function

like a NORMAL COUNTRY

94.9% BRČKO D

ISTRICT

63.1% FBIH CRO

AT

76.6%

FBIH BOSNIAK

67.4% RS SERB

67.3%

33.8%

FBIH CROAT

38.7%

FBIH BOSNIAK

32.1%R

S SERB

BRČKO DISTRICT

34.9%

29.2%

27.5%

46.5%

FBIH CROAT

FBIH BOSNIAK

RS SERB

BRČKO DISTRICT

35.7%so that BiH can

INTEGRATE in the EU

Why?

Why?

Why?

People thinkPoliticians should still lead the process of constitutional reform, butthis process should engage citizens.

think that politicians do not represent the interest of the citizens but rather the interests of their parties. Citizens know that politicians alone will never be able to agree on constitutional reform.

86.7% 59.5%POLITICIANS + CITIZENS + NGOs = STATE-LEVEL

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

56%think that it is not in politicians’ interest to reach an agreement on state-level constitutional reform.

think that NGOs should inform the citizens through the media on the current constitution and its reform process

of citizens

of citizens

of citizens

from theINTERNATIONALCOMMUNITY2

PROPOSALS

2009

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