The executive director of the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT), Dragan Koprivica, said that they welcome the announced dialogue on finding a legally viable solution to the situation in Savnik, and thus the continuation of the electoral reform.
"If the Committee for Comprehensive Electoral Reform (Committee) continues its work at this pace and with this level of commitment, there is little chance that it will happen at all. This Committee, unfortunately, followed the path of the previous ones and did not create a discontinuity with the way of work and thinking of the previous ones convenes. What is even more worrying is the use of the old tactic that everyone is verbally very committed to this reform, but nothing significant is happening in practice," said Koprivica.
He said that in the current convocation, as he stated, there is always something more important than the Board itself
"But also since the electoral reform, so in four months he held only four sessions where the basic preconditions for his work were not created. In four months of work, the committee failed to expand its scope and include important laws that were omitted when it was established, adopted the Rules of Procedure, Road Map of Electoral Reform, nor the manner of functioning of working sub-committees.
"That is why it is very important to intensify the political negotiations related to the situation in Šavnik. We believe that it is not permissible that the first meeting, i.e. the beginning of the dialogue, after the work of the Committee has been blocked and conditioned by the resolution of this situation, is announced for almost a month after that and in this way" "waste the time that was needed to create the preconditions for the Board to work efficiently," said Koprivica.
He emphasized that if we hypothetically take the very optimistic option that the entire problem of Šavnik can be solved in one meeting, "the board will not be able to solve all the previous issues by the end of May - either because of the smaller number of works in that month, or because of what was agreed in the board they don't go very easily."
He stated that it is very important that the solution for Šavnik be legally sustainable and does not create a basis for the politics of electoral tourism and violence to become a model, as he said, of the functioning of our electoral processes.
"We believe that abandoning the, to put it mildly, legally and politically very "stretched" introduction of forced administration, canceling elections and holding new ones, with a written agreement on rules of conduct that complement the laws, would be a positive outcome and a good measure of compromise. That's why we call on political parties to focus his energy on dialogue and urgent resolution of the preconditions for the work of the Board, but also on creating a different environment and climate for its functioning," concluded Koprivica
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