Legally convicted president of Republika Srpska (RS), Milorad Dodik, said yesterday that the people will vote for a “big no” in the first referendum, and maybe for a “big yes” in the next one.
The National Assembly of RS (NARS) is expected to hold a special session this week, during which it should also decide on calling a referendum whose goal is for the people to “reject” the verdict of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) against Milorad Dodik. Today, Dodik mysteriously leaves open the possibility of another referendum in the future, in which the required answer will be “yes.”
“In a referendum, you only have the choice of yes and no. So the question will be for one big ‘no.’ After that, maybe a referendum that will be a big ‘yes.’ So, we didn’t make this like adventurers. They can’t get over how unbreakable the will of Milorad Dodik is. The lawyers are doing their job, I’m not interfering in that, they want to take it to the European Court of Human Rights,” he said.
When asked about the appeal to the Constitutional Court of BiH, he said that, supposedly, they don’t meddle in that. It is interesting that Dodik, for years, has “not recognized” and has undermined the Constitutional Court of BiH, but is now again addressing it.
Dodik stated yesterday that “RS is in the final stage of its political struggle and political path.”
“Either RS will sufficiently distance itself from Sarajevo in seeking what is its Dayton right, or RS truly will not exist,” Dodik emphasized.
It should be noted that Milorad Dodik also spoke yesterday about the United Kingdom (UK) foreign minister in a racist tone.
“You have a Black man come, now it will seem that I’m a racist, I’m not, but it’s all somehow unreal. He comes in the name of the UK, the foreign minister, a Black man, okay, I have nothing against that, it’s their choice, and now he is persuading us to accept some of his fellow countrymen, because they went a bit overboard.”
It should be recalled that by a final verdict, Milorad Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison and a six-year ban on holding public office.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) of BiH, by force of law, revoked the mandate of the legally convicted official, and this is not the first such case. Now remains the period for the defense to appeal.
Milorad Dodik has already accepted the final verdict of the Court of BiH when he submitted a request to buy out the one-year sentence in the amount of 36.500 BAM, Klix.ba writes.
