Republika Srpska Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic told the press on Sunday that the entity’s referendum on the RS national holiday was a complete success. She congratulated the citizens for participating, and demonstrating that RS is capable of organizing and conducting such votes. She also said that the RS National Assembly will now consider a set of amendments to the RS law on holidays, in order to address the recent ruling of the BiH Constitutional Court, which found that the holiday is discriminatory toward non-Serbs in RS.
“This was the day when Srpska demonstrated democratic capacity and provided such a turnout and peaceful and tolerant voting of citizens”, said Cvijanovic.
The Srpska prime minister has announced that the Law on Public Holidays could be reviewed on October 11, when the session of the National Assembly should be held.Cvijanovic has said that the session of the Srpska National Assembly’s Collegium is scheduled for the next week, adding that, according to the procedure, it is necessary for the government to adopted amendments to the law and submit them to the parliamentary procedure….
She has said that the paragraph 1, article 5 of the Law on Republika Srpska Holidays will be deleted, which removes the obligation to celebrate Republika Srpska Day for those who cannot identify with that holiday.
“We believe that this meets what is required of us, but we are open to all suggestions. We have six months to define relevant legal acts after the finalisation of the formal and procedural parts,” said Cvijanovic.
