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Article 1.08
 

Judges of regular and Constitutional courts, prosecutors and their deputies, attorneys and their deputies holding public office, Ombudsmen and their deputies, members of the Human Rights Courts/Chambers/Councils, members of police and armed forces, including, but not limited to, the Finance Police, Judicial Police, State Border Service, and members of internal security and intelligence agencies, and diplomatic and consular representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina abroad, may stand as a candidate for public elected office only if they resign from their position.

 

            If a delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina holds, at the same time, a mandate of a member of the House of Representatives of Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, National Assembly of Republika Srpska or cantonal assembly he/she shall be bound to inform in writing, within 3 days, the Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina which of the mandates he/she selected thus terminating other mandates that he/she holds.

 

            If a delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina acquires the right to a mandate in the House of Representatives of Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, House of Representatives of the   Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, National Assembly of Republika Srpska or cantonal assembly pursuant to Article 9.11 of this Law and if he/she does not inform, within 3 days, the Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina on waiving of that right, the mandate shall not be allocated to him/her and it shall be distributed to the next qualified candidate on the list of the constituency  according to paragraph 2 of Article 9.9 of this Law. If after a question of the Election Commission the delegate decides to use that right his/her mandate of a delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly shall cease.

 

It is incompatible to hold at the same time more than two (2) public directly or indirectly elected offices. It is also incompatible to hold at the same time one directly or indirectly elected office and one position in an executive body of authority. It is also incompatible to hold more than one position in an executive body of authority.

 

            A person may not hold public elected office in Bosnia and Herzegovina and at the same time hold any public elected or politically appointed office in another country.  A person holding any elective or politically appointed office in another country shall be obliged to relinquish, within forty-eight (48) hours after the verification of his or her mandate in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the two (2) offices he or she holds.  A person who holds any public elected office in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is elected to or appointed to a politically appointed office in another country, shall be obliged to relinquish his or her mandate in Bosnia and Herzegovina, within forty-eight (48) hours after the election or appointment in another country.  

 

            For the purpose of this article, an executive office notably includes the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the President and Vice Presidents of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the President and Vice Presidents of the Republika Srpska, the government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina including the Prime Minister, the government of the Republika Srpska including the Prime Minister, the government of the District of Brcko, the Cantonal government, the Mayor of a city, the Deputy Mayor of a city, the city government, the Mayor of a municipality, the Deputy Mayor of a municipality, the Mayor’s cabinet, and other executive functions  as defined by law.