The President of the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, has been summoned by the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina to give a statement tomorrow as a suspect in the overthrow of the constitutional order. Dodik said that he would not appear because, as he said, he was only fulfilling his duty prescribed by the Constitution and the Law following the decisions of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska.
“The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH is an unconstitutional category and cannot speak about the Constitution. Bodies whose activities are prohibited on the territory of the Republika Srpska do not exist in the Constitution of BiH,” Dodik said on the social network “X”.
According to him, the speed with which they reacted shows that “everything was prepared in advance”. He assessed that the Prosecutor’s Office’s moves represent “a continuation of political persecution”.
He again accused the prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH of being politically instructed and abusing their position.
“I will not go to their political court because Serbs no longer go to inquisitions! Serbs only go to talks on the organization of BiH, but as written in the Constitution and the Dayton Peace Agreement,” Dodik said, adding that he would only respect the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Republika Srpska.
As a reminder, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a first-instance decision, found Dodik guilty of disrespecting the decisions of the High Representative in BiH, Christian Schmidt, and sentenced him to one year in prison and imposed a ban on him from holding the office of President of the RS.
The RS National Assembly then adopted laws that, among other things, prohibit the work of state judicial institutions and police agencies in the territory of this entity.
The decrees promulgating these laws were signed last night by the President of Republika Srpska, and they were then published in the “Official Gazette of Republika Srpska”.
Dodik signed decrees promulgating the Law on Non-Application of Laws and Prohibition of Activities of Extra-Constitutional Institutions of BiH, which refers to the prohibition of the activities of the Court and Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) and the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) of BiH.
He also signed a decree promulgating the Law on the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Republika Srpska, the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code of Republika Srpska and the Law on the Special Registry and Publicity of Non-Profit Organizations.
This morning, authorized representatives of the cabinet of BiH Presidency Member Denis Becirović, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH Denis Zvizdić and Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples Kemal Ademović submitted an appeal to the Constitutional Court of BiH with a request to review the constitutionality of these laws and determine a provisional measure.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced earlier today that they have been conducting investigative actions since December 2024, due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that the criminal offense of Attack on the Constitutional Order from the Criminal Code of BiH has been committed.
