puls demokratije: October Elections — arrested political maturing?
Written on November 6, 2006
Historians looking back on peace implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina one day may well settle on October 1, 2006 as the moment when normality moved within reach of the country’s citizens. The state parliament that was elected on that date, and the Council of Ministers that will emerge from the new distribution of power, are expected within the first few months of their mandate to pass constitutional changes, sign a stabilization and association agreement (SAA) with the European Union, and assume full ownership of their actions as the Office of the High Representative is closing down. For the first time in fifteen years, Bosnia will be a “normal” country, or in any case more normal than it has been under the Dayton system: at peace, run by Bosnians rather than foreigners, on its way to EU membership, and equipped with a more rational constitutional set-up. The focus will shift from peace implementation to state-building in the context of European integration; Bosnia will leave the Dayton phase and enter the Brussels era.
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