CDCS Demands Lasting Solution for Political Representation of Minorities
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The Centre for Development of Civil Society warns that the decision of the Constitutional Court to annul the decision of the State Election Commission (SEC) to reduce the required number of signatures for presentation of candidates lists for political parties of the minorities from 10,000 to 3,000 could lead to a situation in which about 800,000 citizens of voting age to not prevented from possibility to exercise their right to political representation.
CDCS has, on several occasions, emphasized that, without proper legal solution, minorities are turned into an object of political trade-offs and blackmail, especially before and during elections, as well as that ad hoc solutions by non-legislative bodies, such as SEC can`t serve as basis for systemic and long-term solution for the right of minorities to political representation. - With the exception of Hungarian and Bosniak minorities, all the other minorities are practically prevented from exercising that right, says CDCS. CDCS reminds that the legislative should review the possibility to adopt provisions that would secure direct seats for national minorities both in National Parliament (Skupština) and the Provincial Assembly of Vojvodina. |
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