We visited the Parliament building for Bosnia-Herzegovina, a building that was on the front line during the war and was heavily damaged. The body returned to the building in 1998 and rebuilding is nearly complete.
We got a deeper look into the wacky government of this country. Again, it is split evenly among the three constituent peoples of the country: Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks (Muslims). Even if someone identified themselves as an ethnic Bosnian, they could not hold an office in the Presidency or the Chamber of Peoples. We also got to meet two MPs, I forget what party/ethnicity they were. They stated that Bosnia-Herzegovina’s multi-ethnicity should be an advantage, not a weakness, and showed optimism for reintegration, a different view than we’ve been seeing from our other experiences in Sarajevo. They realize that they will need a new constitution if they want to join global institutions, such as the EU and NATO, and that the main fault of their constitution, born from the Dayton Treaty, is that it places ethnic rights over civil rights.
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