Given the fact that the Government of the RS has proposed the 9th of January to be celebrated as a secular holiday, what is the point of holding a referendum on the Day of RS? It is certain that the government led by Milorad Dodik spent 1.42 million BAM on a referendum that further degraded image of the entire RS and its citizens in the international community.
Despite the strong propaganda and 1.42 million BAM spent from the budget, the Government of the RS sent the Draft Law on the Day of the RS to the National Assembly of RS, with which the Day of the RS would be marked and celebrated on the 9th of January as a secular holiday.
Given the fact that the propaganda of authorities in the smaller BH entity stimulated citizens to vote in the referendum in order to defend their “home, patron saint and homeland”, it remains unclear why the government, led by Milorad Dodik, publically and officially held the referendum when the National Assembly of RS proposed the 9th of January to be celebrated as a secular holiday.
There is a question on how much the Government of the RS deceived citizens of Serbian ethnic origin assuring them that the RS is “not for sale” and that they should work “for the home, patron saint and homeland.”
Almost a month after the referendum in the RS, nothing has changed in BiH. The decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH must be respected, and government of the RS is aware of that fact, thus they will have to adjust the Law on Holidays of RS with the Constitution of BiH in the end.
The citizens of RS are just poorer for 1.42 million BAM while the image of the smaller BH entity is further degraded in the international community, which strongly condemned the unconstitutional conduct of government of Milorad Dodik, which damages the image of the entire RS and its citizens.
“These funds could be used to help these people. This is a delicate issue, because if we talk only in economic terms, they could help to small and medium-sized enterprises and new employments with those 1.42 million BAM. However, no one thinks about that in this country. The money goes in and out and nobody is looking at what the country actually needs, and that is the development of the real sector and new employments,” said economic analyst Zoran Pavlovic.
President of the Caucus of Coalition Domovina in the National Assembly of RS, Mihnet Okic, said that the referendum was absolutely unnecessary.
He believes that the RS government spent budget funds that were meant for the returnees in the RS because all items in the budget of RS concerning this population are blocked.
“The government and the president of the RS, I believe, lost their compass,” said Okic and concluded that a new proposal of the Government of RS does not change the situation.
(Source: Ervin Musinovic/Klix.ba)
