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| | East European Constitutional Review |
 | | In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the nonnationalist parties banded together and, in February, managed to form a parliamentary majority in order to back the candidacy of Bozidar Matic (Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina [SDPBH]), an economist, as chairman of the Council of Ministers, that is to say, the government. |
 | | In all, ten parties, which have 70 seats in the 140-seat parliament, joined together to form a bloc excluding the nationalist parties--which had ruled the country for the past decade. |
 | | On November 3, 2000, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ruled on the constitutionality of the Law on State Border Service, which was imposed by the Office of the High Representative (OHR), in Case No. U 9/00. |
| www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol10num1/constitutionwatch/bosnia.html (1532 words) |
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