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Balkan Democracy Dances Between Russia, Turkey and NATO

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Posted: November 14th, 2017

Bosnia and Herzegovina has been held together under two separate entities ever since the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995 ended the civil war and created the present-day country: The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, made up of Bosniaks and Croats, and Republika Srpska, home to the country’s Serbs. But the peace and democratic functioning of the country is fragile and could soon face its biggest test.

On Wednesday, the lower house of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s parliament is expected to vote on an election reform bill, which, if passed, would validate a constitutional court ruling from December 2016 that states electoral reform is needed in order to better represent all segments of the population, particularly the minority Croats. If it doesn’t pass, the country might be unable to form a government in the 2018 elections.

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