Experts and Croat parties in BiH have raised concerns about the fact that beginning this week, Denis Zvizdic will be both chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers and speaker of the BiH House of Representatives. Zvizdic is about to take over as speaker but will remain as Council of Ministers chairman because a new Council of Ministers has yet to be formed since the October 2018, elections.
“This is an unreal situation, but it is real in Bosnia – that the same person is in charge of both the executive and legislative branches,” Vehid Sehic, a political analyst and former president of the Bosnian Central Election Commission, told BIRN.
“This violates the constitutional principle that the legislature should exercise control over the executive. But this is Bosnia, so everything is possible here. I do not know that there is another example of this anywhere in Europe,” he added.
