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Some people, usually HDZ BiH supporters, have suggested the 'Belgian model' as a possibility for Bosnia. In fact, the Belgian constitution recognises a single Belgian 'Nation' from which all power emanates. Belgium has no 'constituent nations', only ‘communities’.
Belgium has a single king as head of state - not a presidency rotating between its communities. It has a federal parliament whose members of both chambers (House of Representatives + Senate) represent the entire Belgian Nation, not just those who elected them.
Belgium is not a v. functional state and its constitution involves some parliamentary representation on ethnolinguistic basis. But Belgian model would require Serb/Croat nationalists to recognise a sovereign Bosnian Nation with a single head of state. An improvement on Dayton.
I suspect that if BiH supporters told HDZ supporters 'OK, let's have the Belgian model', they might not actually be very pleased.
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