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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
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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"
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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