ŠPIRIĆ: WE WILL NOT GIVE MAJORITY TO DECISIONS THAT DESTROY NATIONAL INTEREST

SARAJEVO, APRIL 2 /SRNA/ - Speaker of the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Nikola Špirić, said that as long as there was a constitutional and operational majority, the Serb delegates from SNSD would not give a majority to decisions that undermined the national interest.

Špirić has pointed out that every attendance at the sessions of the House of Peoples where there is voting on the removal of representatives of Republka Srpska represents the collapse of the electoral will of the citizens of Srpska.

"It is a vital national interest and why should it be endangered when it comes to Bosniaks and Croats," Špirić told reporters in Sarajevo.

He stressed that today's leaving of the session of the delegates of the Club of the Serb People who come from SNSD is a political message, and asked if the unconstitutional Court and the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina should prosecute him because he represents a political position?

"The decision of the majority club, that is SNSD, is not to attend the continuation of the session where the removal of the ministers from the Council of Ministers and the speaker of the House of Peoples was requested. We wish our colleagues luck if they have a procedural and constitutional majority, and we are ready to work in those matters that are in everyone's interest and there is no reason for anyone to be angry with us," Špirić said.

He stated that he knows that there is a "porous power" through the House of Representatives, but not through the House of Peoples, and if it is achieved, then things will go in a different direction.

"Until then, our decision is not to give a quorum to those items on the agenda," Špirić said.

He assessed that political calculations are being tried in the House of Peoples, and pointed out that as long as he sits in the chair, the priority will be the interests of the citizens of BiH.

"Political calculations will be beyond me. If someone summons a high representative, the Court, the Prosecutor's Office or the judiciary, it is best to finish it tomorrow," Špirić stated.

Špirić asked where "numerous Europeans" who wanted to lead the European way, but could not provide a quorum for the session were until now?

"How to conduct processes without being able to secure a quorum. If two delegates from the Serb people had not come today, would anyone have asked why they were not there? But if three from the majority of the Club of Serbs had not come, the session could not have started. These are the Rules of Procedure and the Constitution," Špirić said.

When they dealt with Republika Srpska, Špirić says, the Rules of Procedure were changed by the decision of the high representative, so it was said that the majority was two out of five, but they did not change it for the quorum.

He pointed out that in every democratic country the authorities set the agenda, and that the moment the opposition sets it, the government goes home.

Špirić said that there is no majority in the Club of the Serb People outside the SNSD, and added that there is now a situation where the Croat and Bosniak clubs propose Serb delegates.

Responding to the question whether he had support at the Collegium in the House of Peoples for the agenda of today's session, Špirić said that decisions were made by the consensus that existed.

He stated that his job was prescribed by the Rules of Procedure, and that those who wanted to make dismissals the first item on the agenda wanted to block the House of Peoples, and that the SNSD would not block the work of this House.