INSTITUTIONAL DATA ON ETHNIC REPRESENTATION OF EMPLOYEES MANIPULATIVE

SARAJEVO, JULY 29 /SRNA/ – The chair of the SNSD caucus in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Sanja Vulić, says the data on ethnic representation of employees in BiH institutions is manipulative.

Vulić has explained the figures submitted for review at the emergency session of the House are not accepted as authentic by the SNSD caucus because there was no explanation of how the data was obtained. "How did the institutions that submitted this data gather it? Through surveys? Did they ask the employees? No, they didn’t. The declarations were based solely on the principle of voluntariness," Vulić emphasized. She added that Bosniaks, by attacking Serbs and Croats, are paving the way for their own political vision and aspirations. “Attack is the best defence. It’s as if a Serb-Croat state is being built, not a unitary BiH. That’s how the Bosniaks are acting. The Bosniaks from the ‘Troika’ coalition want citizens who declare themselves however it suits them - today a Bosniak, tomorrow a Serb, then a Croat, and finally just a ‘citizen’,” Vulić said. True Serbs, she stressed, “know who they are, where they come from, and who they come from, they don’t change their faith for a hot meal.” Vulić reminded that Republika Srpska did not accept the 2013 population census. “According to the BiH Constitution, an entity has the right to oppose coordination if it believes its jurisdiction is being violated. The BiH Law on Statistics, imposed by High Representative Paddy Ashdown, obligates the BiH Agency for Statistics to coordinate the planning, implementation, and publication of the census,” she noted. She concluded that Republika Srpska is legally invoking the constitutional provision on coordination and the legal obligation of the statistics agency, and has exercised its constitutional right to object to the applied methodology.