The President of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) Milorad Dodik stated today that Serb deputies in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH should not support the budget of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He believes that the BiH budget, which is scheduled to be discussed tomorrow by the House of Representatives of the state parliament, was proposed outside the Constitution and the law.
"This budget violates several articles of the Constitution. Cultural institutions do not belong at the level of BiH. They want to impose that," Dodik told reporters in Kijevci near Gradiška.
He added that "it is also important that Serbian MPs do not accept an increase in defense funding."
"That would all come at the expense of the revenues of Republika Srpska and I think that Serbian MPs, regardless of which political party they belong to, should reject it," said Dodik.
According to him, in this case, it is not Serbian unity that is important, but rationality.
"I don't want to give assessments, but I think that this budget will not pass. If it passes in the House of Representatives, it will not pass in the House of Peoples, because the SNSD has three delegates there," said Dodik, who was stripped of his presidential mandate by the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the final verdict against him by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina was confirmed.
With that verdict, Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison, which he bought off with 18.000 euros, but also a six-year ban on holding public office, for failing to implement the decisions of the High Representative in BiH.
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