BiH’s Decisive Electoral reform Strikes New Divisions among Internal and External Actors

These and similar statements, the deepening political crisis, Another question that will determine the outcome of BiH’s as well as the recent 25th anniversary of the BiH Dayton electoral reform – and the future of the country itself – is the peace agreement, have as of late revived public interest in one about the nature of BiH and its electoral, political and electoral reform, both in BiH and abr. [...] stabilizing balance of power vis-à-vis the Serbs.”22 The Washington agreement created a tense but effective The Washington agreement, the renewed alliance between truce between Bosniak and Bosnian Croat forces, which Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats, and the NATO bombing started turning the tide in the BiH war as both the BiH Army campaign against Bosnian Serb military positions in the and HVO were abl. [...] Around the same to the constitutions of both entities to put them in line time, countries involved in the ad-hoc group charged with with the 2000 BiH Constitutional Court ruling.23 Until then, overseeing implementation of the peace process, the Peace Bosniak and Bosnian Croat parties in the BiH Federation Implementation Council (PIC), reinforced the mandate of government operated on the basis of f. [...] The so-called “Prud agriculture, technology and the environment; it established agreement” included long-reaching reforms related to a new category of shared competences between the State state property, the census, reconstruction of the Council and entities in the areas of taxation, justice and electoral of Ministers, resolving the legal status of the Brčko District, affairs; it included the “EU. [...] Combined with the fact that all key regional Reform of BiH’s election system is one of country’s biggest and global actors have a stake in BiH and the rest of the challenges since the Dayton Agreement, as it opens critical region, the disintegration of BiH could open the question of questions about relations amongst its three constitutive the stability of the Balkans and all of Europe.