33rd Anniversary Since the Establishment of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska
The National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska was established 33 years ago, on this day, 24th October 1991 in Sarajevo.
The Decision to establish the Assembly of the Serbian People in BiH was taken on 24 October 1991 by the MPs elected in the 1990 elections, and with this, the process of establishing the Republic of Srpska began.
On 9 January 1992, MPs of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska adopted the Declaration on Proclamation of the Republic of Serbian People in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This date is celebrated in the Republic of Srpska as the Day of the Republic.
On 28 February the National Assembly enacted the Constitution of the Republic of Srpska and the Constitutional Law for its implementation, which formally established statehood- legal subjectivity of the Serbian people.
Immediately after the war began, the headquarters of the Assembly had moved to Pale. Since 1998 the headquarters of the National Assembly has been in Banja Luka.
The National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska has 83 members of the parliament who were directly elected at the parliamentary elections.
The first after-war elections were held in 1996, until then the Assembly had been composed of MPs elected at the first parliamentary elections in BiH, 1990, as MPs of the then Assembly of the Socialist Republic BiH.
Until 2002, MPs have been elected on a mandate lasting two years, and from 2002 MPs have been elected on a mandate lasting four years.
Momcilo Krajisnik, from 25 October 1991 to 1996, was the first president of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska.
On the first constitutive session of the Second Convocation, held on 19 October 1996, Dragan Kalinic was elected as the President of the National Assembly, and he was re-elected as the head of this institution in the Third Convocation, on 12 January 1998.
At the Session held on 15 and 16 June 1998, enacted the Decision to dismiss the president of the National Assembly Dragan Kalinic and on the same Session Petar Djokic was elected as the president of the National Assembly.
The fourth convocation of the parliament was constituted after the elections in 1998, and Petar Dokic was re-elected as the president of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska at the constitutive session held on November 4, 1998.
Dragan Kalinić was elected President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska at the session held on December 16, 2000. He was dismissed from this position on 29 June 2004. By the decision of the High Representative under the charge of "helping the Hague indictees". After the dismissal of Dragan Kalinic, Dusan Stojicic was elected Speaker of the Parliament at the session of the National Assembly held on 20 July, 2004.
At the session held on 28 February 2006, Igor Radojičić was elected President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska, who was also elected President of the Parliament of Srpska during the mandate of the Eighth Assembly convocation, at the session held on November 15, 2010.
In the 2014 elections, the Ninth Convocation of the National Assembly was elected, and at the constitutive session, held on November 24, 2014, Nedeljko Cubrilovic was elected as the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska.
Cubrilovic was elected president of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska in its Tenth convocation, at the session held on November 19, 2018.
The current President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska, Nenad Stevandic, was elected as the head of the parliament at the constitutive session of the 11th convocation held on November 15, 2022.
On the occasion of marking the 33rd anniversary of the establishment of the National Assembly, a reception and promotion of the book "Armature of Sovereignty" will be organized today in the National Assembly.