TRIŠIĆ BABIĆ: JUDICIARY IN BiH – INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL SETTLING OF SCORES

BANJA LUKA, JANUARY 23 /SRNA/ – The decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH once again confirms what Republika Srpska has been warning about for some time – that the judiciary in BiH has been turned into an instrument of political settling of scores and that political processes are being steered from Sarajevo through courtrooms, following an established pattern, Acting President of Republika Srpska Ana Trišić Babić told SRNA.

Trišić Babić stressed that the institutions of Republika Srpska timely recognized yet another abuse of the judiciary orchestrated from Sarajevo and acted responsibly to protect the institution of the Government, while also preserving peace and stability in Republika Srpska. “This is not a sign of weakness, as some in Sarajevo hope and attempt to portray it, but proof of the institutional maturity, responsibility and seriousness of Republika Srpska,” Trišić Babić pointed out. Unfortunately, she added, Sarajevo once again showed neither a minimum of political inventiveness nor a willingness to act as a partner in BiH, but solely as a center of constant abuses and political setups. “Their policy has been reduced to one thing – looking to the sky and calling for foreign interventions, instead of looking at the facts and the reality in which we live. Instead of understanding global changes and the new era that is coming, Sarajevo stubbornly remains trapped in short-sightedness and political myopia, convinced that Republika Srpska can be weakened, destabilized or intimidated through the same, worn-out mechanisms. It cannot,” Trišić Babić emphasized. She said that Republika Srpska is committed to peace, stability and dialogue, but on the basis of the Dayton Peace Agreement, compromise and respect for agreements reached. “Citizens of Republika Srpska can remain calm. Institutions are doing their job and will not allow anyone to jeopardize stability. The only ones who will lose are those who continue to believe that abusing the same courtrooms over and over again will achieve something. They will not. They will only push themselves into even greater delusions and deeper political isolation,” Acting President of Republika Srpska Ana Trišić Babić concluded. The incomplete Constitutional Court of BiH today ruled that the previous composition of the Government of Republika Srpska was “unconstitutional.”