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"

1. CITIZENS’ OPINIONS ON
STATE-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 SUPPORT
80.6%
EQUAL RIGHTS
OTHERS 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 ON
STATE-LEVEL CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
in Bosnia and Herzegovina
20
QUESTIONS
2013
JULY
1000 CITIZENS
EQUALITY OF CITIZENS, no matter
their ethnic background or whether they
belong to constituent peoples or not.
OF CITIZENS SUPPORT
80.6%
EQUAL RIGHTS
OTHERS 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