Dodik says that he will “declare the independence of the Republic of Srpska” if Trump becomes president of the USA again
by lukalux3
Dodik says that he will “declare the independence of the Republic of Srpska” if Trump becomes president of the USA again
by lukalux3
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Google Translated with small fixes:
>The President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik said that he planned to declare the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity while Donald Trump was president of the USA and that he would do it now if Trump won the election again.
>”When Donald Trump won in America, I had the intention to declare the independence of Republika Srpska, and then some around me got scared and I didn’t do it. I have to say that today I regret that I didn’t. But if Trump won again, I think that I wouldn’t hesitate,” said Dodik for the media house from Serbia, TV Prva.
>He said that he believes in the independence of the RS and believes that it will have to happen one day.
>Dodik often makes statements about the possibility of that entity declaring independence from Bosnia and Herzegovina in his media appearances.
>The territorial integrity and sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina as one state with two entities and Brčko District are guaranteed by the Dayton Peace Agreement, and this agreement and the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina do not give any entity the right to secede.
>Milorad Dodik, President of the RS, Željka Cvijanović, member of the Presidency of BiH, Prime Minister of the RS Radovan Višković, President of the National Assembly of the RS Nenad Stevandić and Entity Minister of Justice Miloš Bukejlović are under US sanctions due to threats to the Dayton Peace Agreement.
>He will appear before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
>Dodik was also accused before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for failing to implement the decisions of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, authorized on behalf of the international community to supervise the implementation of the civilian aspects of the Dayton Agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995.
>Dodik told TV Prva that he will appear before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 6, at the trial based on the indictment against him and Miloš Lukić, acting Director of the Official Gazette of the RS in which the decisions of the High Representative were to be published.
>The indictment followed after the National Assembly of the RS adopted two disputed laws on June 27, which Dodik signed according to the regular legislative procedure and were published in the Official Gazette of the RS.
>These are laws that state that the decisions of the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (OHR) will no longer be published in the Official Gazette, and therefore will not be respected in Bosnia and Herzegovina entity, as well as that the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will no longer apply in the RS.
>At its session on November 29, the Constitutional Court of the RS assessed that the Constitution of the RS “none of its provisions foresees the possibility of the high representative intervening in the legislative procedure in the Republic of Srpska, which, in addition to the adoption of the law, also includes the passing of a decree promulgating the law”.
>On July 1, 2023, High Representative Christian Schmidt annulled the law relating to the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the amendments to the law regulating the work of the Official Gazette of the RS.
>Then he imposed changes to the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which makes non-implementation of the decisions of the High Representative a criminal offense, and the punishment can be up to five years in prison, as well as a ban on performing any duty in any body that is fully or partially financed from the budget.
>These are laws previously adopted by the RS Assembly.
Trump will be the next US president. Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians has guaranteed a Biden loss. Biden has lost young voters, black and Hispanic voters, and now Arabs. His entire voter base is gone.
He has been saying he will declare independence next year for 15 years in a row now.
The sanctions against him didn’t even start with Biden, that was the Trump administration.
lol go back to 2015 articles on this sub and he says the same thing.
He’s a politician and nothing more. He has said this for years.
He supported the last party in power in Serbia, he supports today’s ruling party.
He came to power by the will of the West and then he was a new, liberal force. He spoke of Karadzic and Mladic as war criminals.
He changed his mind eventually and figured out that Russia is his true friend and that populism and arrogance are something that people want. I think that people have been sick of him for a while but the alternative (Stanivukovic) is not any better.
Also, as an anecdote – he was so pissed when he lost the elections in Banja Luka that he said that he’s gonna cut gas and electricity off for the citizens, as punishment for their decision.
“Srpska” sounds like an adjective to me. It should be “Srpska Republic” not “Republic of Srpska”, that sounds like “Republic of Croatian”. Or am I mistaken in that initial assumption?
Can someone please explain to me why Srpska can’t declare independence. Isn’t Bosnia a federation like Yugoslavia was?
Dodik is the of the worst. His words never don’t correlate to his political decisions and he doesn’t have absolute or the majority power in Bosnia’s politics.