CEC BIH AND SNSD ARE WAITING DECISION OF COURT OF BIH

SARAJEVO, JUNE 8 (ONASA) – In the re-procurement of printing and packaging services for ballots for the 2024 local elections, the value of the procurement was increased by about 250,000 BAM.
On Friday, the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina made a new decision on the procurement of ballot printing and packaging services for the local elections in October, after no one applied for the previous invitation.
As it was said, the estimated value of the procurement is approximately 1,370,000 BAM without VAT, or approximately 1,600,000 BAM with VAT for the conclusion of the framework agreement.
For the printing of ballot papers for local elections, a contract will be concluded on the basis of this framework agreement for the value of 1,282,000 BAM without VAT, i.e. 1,500,000 BAM with VAT and will be carried out using the negotiation procedure without publishing a procurement notice in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Public Procurement, since no offer was submitted by the deadline for the submission of offers in an open procedure.
The conditions for the contract, the CEC of Bosnia and Herzegovina notes, have not changed compared to those from the previous procedure.
– In the re-procurement of the printing and packaging of ballots for the local elections in 2024, the value of the procurement was increased by about 250,000 BAM, the Information Office of the CEC of BiH announced.
The CEC also gave answers to frequently asked questions about electoral committees, and considering the changes that occurred after the high representative in BiH, Christian Schmidt, imposed changes to the Election Law of BiH in March.
One of the questions is whether the duration of the engagement of the deputy member of the electoral committee affects the amount of compensation.
The CEC replies that the deputies exercise the right to compensation if they worked at the polling station on the day of the election, which will be determined by reviewing the minutes of the committee’s work.
As they state, the president of the committee is obliged to record in the minutes the time when the deputy worked at the polling station, and the time of engagement does not affect the amount of the fee.
When asked what about coalitions and how to solve it in the context of appointing election committees, e.g. if the coalition consists of political entities that won the mandate(s) in the previous elections and parties that did not win mandates.
The CEC replies that such coalitions are treated as a new political entity and, as such, have no right to participate in the drawing of lots for positions in electoral committees.
The epilogue of the story about a possible change in the composition of the Serbian People’s Club in the House of Peoples of the PSBiH is still awaited.
Namely, at the end of May, the CEC again recognized the PDP ticket, and the SNSD filed an appeal against this decision to the CEC, which sent a statement to the Court.
– The decision of the Court on the aforementioned appeal of the SNSD political party against the Decision of the CEC of Bosnia and Herzegovina has not yet been made, and it will be decided and a decision will be made within the time frame stipulated by law, this judicial institution said on Friday. (end