Retired Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Savo Minic announced today the proposed composition of the new Government of Republika Srpska with five new ministers.
The function of the Minister of Labor and Veterans-Disabled Protection should be performed by the President of the Republika Srpska Veterans Organization, Radan Ostojić.
In addition to the Department of Veterans and Disability Protection, Minić proposed new ministers in the Departments of Science and Higher Education, Family, Youth and Sports, Economy and Entrepreneurship, and the Ministry of Trade and Tourism.
The former dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in East Sarajevo, Drago Mastilović, was proposed for the Minister of Science and Technology Development and Higher Education, Radenko Bubić for the Minister of Economy and Entrepreneurship, Irena Ignjatović for the Minister of Family, Youth and Sports, and Ned Puhovac for the Minister of Trade and Tourism.
“The new Government of the RS will be elected tomorrow at the session of the National Assembly of the RS. This is the story of the continuity of the political structure that received a mandate in 2022. We are not punishing anyone, we are just bringing in additional energy for activities this year,” said Minic.
On January 15, Minic returned the mandate of the prime minister of Republika Srpska, and the acting president of Republika Srpska, Ana Trišić Babić, informed him that he would be nominated again.
Trišić Babić pointed out earlier that this decision aims to prevent, as she stated, “the creation of another artificial crisis under the direction of a foreign administration”, as well as that the processes in the Republic of Srpska are decided by the Republika Srpska and its institutions, “and not by anyone outside it”.
A special session of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska (NSRS) will be held tomorrow in Banja Luka on the adoption of the resignation of the Prime Minister of the RS, Savo Minic.
After the end of this special session, the Collegium of the National Assembly of the RS will hold a session on holding a new session on the election of a new entity government.
All this is happening on the eve of the plenary session of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, scheduled for January 22, at which a decision should be made on the constitutionality of the Government of the RS, appointed after Milorad Dodik was deprived of the mandate of entity president.
On September 2, 2025, the National Assembly of the RS elected a new Government of the RS, headed by Savo Minić, despite the fact that the proposal for the mandate came from Milorad Dodik after he was handed a final verdict, which prohibits him from holding public office for the next six years.
