Milorad Dodik has nominated Savo Minic as the Prime Minister-designate of the new Republika Srpska Government. Minic was the previous Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management.
Dodik did this, even though he has no legal authority to do so, after the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina stripped him of his mandate as President of the RS.
The CEC revoked the mandate because the Court of BiH, in early August, issued a final verdict sentencing Dodik to one year in prison (he bought the sentence with a cash payment) and a six-year ban on holding public office.
The Central Election Commission has 90 days to call early elections for the President of the RS.
Meanwhile, Radovan Višković, the former Prime Minister of the RS, resigned at the beginning of the week, leaving the Bosnian entity of Republika Srpska without a president and without a prime minister.
Višković's resignation was confirmed by the Republika Srpska Assembly on August 22nd.
According to the law, the new prime minister-designate is proposed by the President of the RS.
The conclusions of the RS Assembly of August 22nd call on Dodik to continue serving as President of the RS, reject early elections, and order entity institutions not to cooperate with the CEC.
The opposition warned that this would enter a zone of criminal acts and violations of the constitutional order of BiH.
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