The National Assembly of Republika Srpska (NARS) today, at a special session under emergency procedure, adopted the Law on Financing Political Parties, which abolishes budget financing of all parliamentary parties in that entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Opposition parties in the RS opposed this, because they would be left without money for their activities, and accused the government of wanting to destroy the opposition.
The opposition says that the ruling coalition parties in RS will use corrupt practices to extract money from public companies for themselves.
This law passed for the second time, because the first time it recently failed to receive the necessary majority of votes to be included on the agenda - the votes of three MPs from the ruling coalition were missing.
The ruling coalition initiated the adoption of this new law after High Representative in BiH Christian Schmidt banned funding for the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) of Milorad Dodik and United Srpska (US) of Nenad Stevandić from the budget at all levels of government in BiH.
Schmidt stated that he did this because of the actions of these two parties in destroying the constitutional order of BiH.
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