The High Representative in BiH, Kristijan Šmit, said on Tuesday that he will gather political leaders in BiH this week to once again try to agree on "technical changes" to the Electoral Law of BiH, calling that day "D-day".
Schmidt stated that he will intervene if the politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not reach an agreement.
"They want to discuss these issues once again, while there is skepticism at some points in the Republika Srpska with the President of the RS Milorad Dodik. They are not keeping up," said Šmit, Sarajevo media reported.
He said that there is optimism and that he is "grateful for every decision they make independently".
In the previous days, Šmit discussed changes to the electoral law with the leaders of the pro-Bosnian coalition "Trojka" in Sarajevo and in Mostar with the leader of HDZ BiH, Dragan Čović.
The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, announced tonight that he will take "certain steps" if High Representative Kristijan Šmit imposes "technical changes" to the BiH Election Law, and that he is "ready for Šmit's D-Day".
Šmit said today that by the end of the week, political leaders in BiH will gather to once again try to agree on "technical changes" to the Election Law of BiH, calling that day "D-Day", and announced that he will intervene if they do not achieve agreement.
To that, Dodik said that only elected representatives of the people, who have the legitimacy to do so, can make decisions about all processes and further developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"The problem we have and which has been going on since the constitution of the government is that political Bosniaks do not have the capacity for independent decision-making and any negotiations," he wrote on the social network Ix.
He assessed that Bosniak politicians are subordinate to the foreigners who appointed them.
"Until now, their commitment to the European path has been at the level of worn-out phrases, almost the same ones we hear in the EU, how they 'want us'. Likewise, these Sarajevo parties want to join the EU, and in their actions they are leading us further and further away from that path." assessed Dodik.
He added that such a policy leads so far that "some unnamed foreigner is talking about how 'D-Day' is a meeting of political leaders that should be a normal course for agreements and solving all issues."
"And it will be 'D-Day', if someone dares to cross the borders and implement a scenario that opens up space for him to impose something," pointed out Dodik.
According to him, the intention of the RS is to preserve the Dayton BiH and the Constitution of BiH.
"If they continue to dismantle Dayton, they will get an independent Republika Srpska and a disintegrated, dysfunctional Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is our answer to all those who threaten attacks on the RS," warned Dodik.
He announced that the RS will use all legal and political means and that "it will not allow the Americans and the British to suspend law and justice."
"Our rights and opportunities available to us are defined by law and we are ready to use them," emphasized Dodik.
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