VULIĆ: IS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PROTECTING SCHMIDT, DESTROYER OF CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER?

SARAJEVO, MAY 20 /SRNA/ – Chairwoman of the SNSD Caucus in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly Sanja Vulić asked the Constitutional Court of BiH to declare its position on the constitutionality of provisions of the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code of BiH imposed by Christian Schmidt.

In a parliamentary question submitted to the Constitutional Court of BiH, Vulić asked for the Court’s position on the conclusion of the Constitutional - Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, composed of legal experts, which stated that the imposed provisions are unconstitutional and that the high Representative has no constitutional authority to enact laws.

"Does the Constitutional Court of BiH share such a legal position, or does it consider that there is a constitutional basis for an unappointed foreign official to enact laws outside the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH?" Vulić asked.

In the letter addressed to the President of the incomplete Constitutional Court of BiH Mirsad Ćeman, Vuilć requested clarification on which constitutional or international legal act the Court relies on when considering that the High Representative’s decisions are exempt from constitutional review, and whether there is any legal remedy or institution in BiH that can review the acts of the High Representative if the Constitutional Court cannot.

"Does the Constitutional Court of BiH consider that the principle of distribution of powers and parliamentary democracy has been violated in the case of law imposition without parliamentary procedure?" she added.

She recalled that Christian Schmidt is a tourist without a relevant UN Security Council resolution.

"Why does the Constitutional Court protect the destroyer of the constitutional order of BiH?" Vulić asked.

She also referred to a decision of the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH dated November 13, 2025, stating that the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code of BiH was not adopted through the legislative procedure of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH.