Judicial activism in protection against discrimination

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide the proposal for a feasible and effective model that the Constitutional Court of BH could utilize to remedy the problem of the constitutional-based discrimination of minorities within the electoral process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The issue at stake came into focus of legal and political science scholars after the ECtHR delivered its famous decision in case Sejdic-Finci in December 2009. The proposed approach of the Constitutional Court of BH is to increase its judicial activism, since it is the only stakeholder equipped with the necessary tools for resolving the problem that brought the political elites into a deadlock.

U radu se predlaže model prevazilaženja problema na ustavu zasnovane diskriminacije manjina i izbornom procesu u BiH. Ovo pitanje se našlo u žiži evropske stručne javnosti nakon što je Evropski sud za ljudska prava doneo čuvenu presudu u slučaju Sejdić i Finci protiv BiH (decembar 2009), a potom je potvrdio u slučaju Zornić (jul 2014) i slučaju Pilav (jun 2016). Predloženi pristup i argumentacija zasnovani su na većem sudskom aktivizmu Ustavnog suda BiH, kao jedinog aktera koji ima na raspolaganju odgovarajuće i efektivne instrumente da bi se prevazišao problem. Rešenje problema u političkoj sferi, kao najčešće predlagana alternativa, do danas nije dala rezultate, imajući u vidu nespremnost političkih elita da pristupe temeljnim ustavnim promenama.