prijava
SARAJEVO, June 4 (FENA) - The "Under the Magnifier" coalition reacted to the announced process of amending the BiH Election Law, in which as it was stated, three political parties in power at the state level (HDZ BiH, SDP BiH and SNSD) took upon themselves to work on it, considering it unacceptable that the process should be reduced to agreements between three political parties or, even worse, three individuals from those political parties.
The coalition believes that the process of amending the BiH Election Law must include a wide range of interested stakeholders and start with priorities.
The best way to do that, they say, is intensive and inclusive institutional work on the implementation of priority recommendations for better elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This primarily refers to the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which refer to discrimination through the restriction of candidacy in elections based on ethnicity and residence.
They remind the public that 14 years have passed since the first such verdict, as well as the implementation of the recommendations of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), especially those that address illegal pressure on voters as to who to vote for in the elections.
They also assess that it is necessary to urgently implement the priority recommendations of the "Under the Magnifier" Coalition, which relate to electronic identification of voters, scanning of ballots, entry of results from the level of polling stations, reform of polling boards and imposition of the strictest sanctions for established irregularities with greater involvement of the police and prosecutor's offices.
All of the above will contribute to the prevention of proven election theft and fraud, for which timely and adequate sanctions still do not exist.
(FENA) S. R.
