Claims of certain politicians that the BH Constitutional Court is making political rather than legal decisions are dismissed by Begic as ridiculous. Mr. Mirko Banjac initiated three cases in front of the Constitutional Court. He won one and lost two. Then he says that the Constitutional Court is a political institution. Regarding the decision about the constituent character of nations, the hearing went on for two and a half years.
Some people have really short memory.
However, judge Begic's view that the Constitutional Court at this point should assist political structures and correct their decisions, reveals that he is far from removed from politics. If political structures, parliaments, are not capable, and obviously they are not, to follow their obligations from the General Peace Agreement, then someone must do that. That is the BH Constitutional Court and, fortunately for us, the High Representative. Popovic warns that split-vote decisions based on the ethnicity of the judges have become practice recently and that he and other judges are not happy about that. He especially mentioned the decision of the Court about the disputed article of the Federation Tenancy Law, which, based on his judicial views, he assessed as discriminatory.