The Senate of the Republika Srpska (Serbian Cyrillic: Сенат Републике Српске, romanized: Senat Republike Srpske) is a consultative body of the highest institutions of Republika Srpska, an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to the initial text of the law of 1997 only Serbs could be appointed as members of the senate.
The Venice Commission stated in 2001 that this was discriminatory and obviously unconstitutional.
[1] The law has been changed in 2010 and allowed people of any ethnicity to be appointed as members of the senate.
Present or past members of the Senate of Republika Srpska include: