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The growing difficulty to construct a Council of Ministers reflects, to a large extent, the interest that the Entities have in controlling the work of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in particular, of the Council of Ministers. The participation of political parties in the Council of Ministers seems to be conditioned on their participation in the Entity governments. As a result, the Council of Ministers acts more and more as a proxy of the Entities. The Council of Ministers has slowly become the place where the Entities put forward their views about the policies of the State. If this situation is not specific to Bosnia and Herzegovina, as noted by Marc Uyttendaele concerning the Belgian government, it transforms the State Government into a mirror image of the Entities and therefore defeats the main purpose of Federalism which is to enable every level of government to have a government that is in sync with its sociological reality.2837 <\/sup><\/span>As an illustration of that situation, one could refer to the growing tendency of the RS authorities to adopt resolutions or declarations on matters that fall within the realm of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is not only true for matters that touch upon fundamental questions related to the organisation of Bosnia and Herzegovina2838 <\/sup><\/span>but also more \u2018mundane\u2019 issues such as the support of Republika Srpska to the adoption of a proposed law by the Council of Ministers.2839 <\/sup><\/span>Although these interventions of the Entities in the decision-making process of State institutions are nothing more than political declarations,2840 <\/sup><\/span>the political reality is that they have been followed by the members of the Council of Ministers from the Entity from which it emanates, thereby creating a wrong perception that the responsibilities of the State and its institutions stem from a delegation by the Entities rather than the Constitution, and that the State institutions are in essence \u201cjoint institutions\u201d of the two Entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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