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Public Opinion Poll on citizens' view on constitutional reform, commissioned in July 2013 within the project “Constitutional Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Engaging Civil Society"TRANSCRIPT
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CITIZENS’ OPINIONS ONSTATE-LEVEL CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM in Bosnia and Herzegovina
EQUALITY OF CITIZENS, no matter their ethnic background or if they belong to constituent peoples or not.
CITIZENS SUPPORT80.6%EQUAL RIGHTSOTHERS should have
Should citizens from the category of others be elected in BiH Presidency, all parliaments and all governments in the country?
BOSNIAKS SERBS CROATS OTHERS
83% 80.6%
62.1%
94.7%INCLUDING:
OTHERS
“Changing the emphasis from a state based on the equality of three constituent peoples to a state based on the equality of citizens, remain desirable in the medium and long term.
If the interests of individuals are conceived as being based mainly on ethnicity, this impedes the development of a wider sense of nationhood.”
Venice Commission, Opinion on the Constitutional Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Powers of the High Representative, 2005
CITIZENS’ OPINIONS ONSTATE-LEVEL CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM in Bosnia and Herzegovina
20QUESTIONS
2013JULY
1000 CITIZENS
EQUALITY OF CITIZENS, no matter their ethnic background or whether they belong to constituent peoples or not.
OF CITIZENS SUPPORT80.6%
EQUAL RIGHTSOTHERS should have
Should citizens from the category of “the Others” be elected in the BiH Presidency, all parliaments and all governments in the country?
BOSNIAKS SERBS CROATS OTHERS
83% 80.6%
62.1%
94.7%INCLUDING:
QUESTION:
OTHERS
“Changing the emphasis from a state based on the equality of three constituent peoples to a state based on the equality of citizens, remain desirable in the medium and long term.
If the interests of individuals are conceived as being based mainly on ethnicity, this impedes the development of a wider sense of nationhood.”
Venice Commission, Opinion on the Constitutional Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Powers of the High Representative, 2005