SARAJEVO – Bosnia’s international peace envoy decreed on Monday a regional parliament representing the Muslim-Croat population can continue to function despite a ruling it was formed illegally. The decision by the international community’s High Representative in Bosnia stressed the need for a functioning government in the Balkan nation still beset by divisions 15 years after Europe’s deadliest fighting since World War Two.
The dispute concerns the parliament for the Muslim-Croat federation, which makes up half the country with the Serb Republic in an uneasy co-existence under a weak central parliament. An election commission had ruled that the regional parliament was illegally formed, but the envoy said its future should be determined by the constitutional court.
Envoy extends Bosnian parliament amid legal row
