Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Savo Minić (SNSD) confirmed today that he has resigned as Prime Minister of Republika Srpska and that the acting President of RS, Ana Trišić Babić, has informed him that he will be re-nominated as the prime minister-designate to form a new entity government.
Minic told reporters in Banja Luka that he had resigned in order to reconstruct the current composition of the RS Government, which would "ensure stability and security for the citizens of RS."
Minić did not want to say which ministers would be replaced, stating that there would be several.
He challenged the right of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to decide on the legitimacy of the RS government, saying that the RS authorities would not allow it.
He said that his decision to return the mandate of Prime Minister, and then be reappointed as the person designated to form the RS Government, was the "institutional response of the authorities" of that BiH entity to political pressures.
Minić said that the decisions made by his Government cannot be called into question by any decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH.
"Also, we will not allow any foreign factor to influence us and we will not be in any legal vacuum for a single day," he said.
Minić said that the RS government is doing everything in its power to "remove the shackles that they keep putting on the RS", and "we want to get out of this situation".
Minic resigned a few days before the announced session of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the appeal of a group of Bosniak deputies in the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina who believe that the initial selection of Minic as the person designated to form the RS Government was not legal.
On September 2, 2025, the RS National Assembly elected a new entity government, led by Minić.
The mandate to form the new government was given to Minic by Milorad Dodik, although the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CIK BiH) stripped him of the mandate as President of the RS in early August last year based on a verdict by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which sentenced him to one year in prison and a six-year ban on holding public office.
Minić also said today that he believes that the snap elections for the president of the Republika Srpska are "completed", that the winner of those elections is the candidate of the ruling Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), Siniša Karan, and assessed that the decision of the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CIK) to repeat those elections at 136 polling stations in 17 municipalities and cities due to irregularities is "outrageous".
Minić rejected all allegations of voting irregularities at those polling stations, accusing the CEC of making such a decision "to cause a political crisis in RS."
If the votes at those 136 polling stations are annulled, opposition candidate Branko Blanuša has an advantage of about six thousand votes over Karan.
Trišić Babić: Resignation of the Prime Minister of RS to prevent another artificial crisis orchestrated by a foreign administration
Acting President of Republika Srpska (RS), Ana Trišić Babić, stated today that the authorities in that entity of BiH have agreed that RS Prime Minister Savo Minić will resign and then immediately receive a mandate to form a new entity government, in order to prevent the creation of, as she stated, another artificial crisis orchestrated by a foreign administration.
"Republika Srpska is future-oriented, dedicated to development and not against anyone, unlike political Sarajevo, which is trapped in the past and dedicated to making life miserable for Republika Srpska," Trišić Babić told the Srna news agency.
The decision to have Minić resign and then be re-elected as Prime Minister of the RS, according to her, aims to have the processes in the RS decided by that entity and its institutions, and not by someone outside it.
"The government headed by Savo Minić has begun implementing strategic projects aimed at improving the lives of all citizens, a program to improve the lives of the veteran population, especially the younger population, and increasing economic activity. It is logical for this government to continue fulfilling the defined goals," she concluded.
Serb member of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović wrote on the social network Iks that she gives full support to Prime Minister Minič to ensure that, through the reconstruction of the Government, the initiated activities to improve the living conditions of all categories of the population and infrastructure projects that will enable the further development of all local communities are fully implemented.
"It is important that the Republika Srpska always has a ready and efficient institutional response to all challenges, because that is what our people expect from their institutions," she emphasized.
The President of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska (RS), Nenad Stevandić, stated that the entity parliament will elect a new government as soon as it receives an appropriate request, adding that after the resignation of Prime Minister Sava Minić, there will be no problems in the functioning of the RS.
Opposition in RS on Prime Minister's resignation: Everything SNSD did last year is illegal and a pure lie
The vice president of the opposition Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), Želimir Nešković, said today that the resignation of Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Savo Minić and the entire entity government is an admission that everything the ruling Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) did in 2025 was "illegal and a pure lie."
"The eternal improvisers for their own personal interest have brought the entire work of the Government in 2025 into question, and caused irreparable damage to the reputation of the RS," said Nešković, the SDS announced.
According to him, the payment made by the RS Government to the Slovenian "Vijadukt" based on an arbitration decision was illegal, the acceptance of the claims of the Russian oligarch Rashid Serdarov's company "Komsar Energi" against the Ugljevik Mine and Thermal Power Plant was illegal, and the transfer of the loan repayment of the "Jahorina" Olympic Center to the RS Government was also illegal.
"But Savo Minić is not mentioning that today. Minić is reporting all the shady and illegal affairs of the RS Government in the last year to the Constitutional Court of BiH, and his resignation should cover all the illegal affairs of the SNSD," Nešković pointed out.
He added that "paper may endure everything, but the people are not as forgetful as the illegal gentlemen think."
Deputy President of the Safe Srpska Movement (PSS) Igor Radojičić stated that Republika Srpska has been in complete legal and institutional chaos for months.
"Today, it is no longer clear which institutions in the Republika Srpska operate legally, nor which legal acts are applied. The government, preemptively reacting to the expected decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH that the current RS Government is unconstitutional and illegal, is making new stunts, trying to simulate legality through the alleged return of mandates and the re-election of the same Government," Radojičić pointed out, the PSS announced.
According to him, citizens have been witnessing the complete collapse of institutions for months.
"It is not known who the President of the Republic is, an illegal Government is being elected, and the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska is nullifying and humiliating itself," said Radojičić.
He believes it is high time this practice stopped.
"This government must leave in order to end the legal and institutional chaos and prevent further harmful consequences for the Republika Srpska and its citizens," he concluded.
The opposition People's Front will not participate in consultations on the election of the new RS Government
The president of the opposition People's Front (NF), Jelena Trivić, stated today that her party will not respond to an invitation to talk about forming a new Government of Republika Srpska (RS), after the entity's Prime Minister Savo Minić resigned today, and then announced that he had been re-elected to that position.
"We warned the authorities that the election of Savo Minic would only further complicate the political and legal position of RS, which we are witnessing today," Trivić said, according to Sarajevo media.
Trivić assessed that, given that the government planned for Minić to resign and for him to be prime minister again by giving him a mandate from the unconstitutional acting president of the RS, Ana Trišić Babić, "it is completely pointless to talk to people who have trampled on all institutions and brought the RS into an ever worse constitutional, legal, political and institutional crisis."
She emphasized that the RS should have a new president, elected in the elections, adding that the entity Constitution recognizes only such a method of electing the President of the RS, which should decide who will be the new president-designate.
She assessed that 2026 is the year of change, expressing her belief that the people will be able to recognize that RS needs a new, better government, responsible to both the people and the people's interests.
Dodik: We are leaving nothing to chance, the new RS Government will be a government of continuity
The leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), Milorad Dodik, stated today that the Republika Srpska (RS) is showing determination to decide for itself and an incredible ability to implement serious social processes in the shortest possible time.
"As responsible people, we leave nothing to chance. The government, led by Savo Minić, has in a short period of time initiated significant reforms aimed at raising living standards and preserving the stability of RS. The new government, which he will continue to lead, will be a government of continuity," Dodik wrote on the social network Iks.
He added that the government in the RS "may not be perfect or ideal, but the opposition is trying its best, and succeeding, to prove to the people that it is ten times worse."
"For the opposition, Sarajevo's trash is sweeter than our cake. For them, the illegal Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is legal, the illegal Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CEC) is legal, the illegal (High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Kristijan) Schmidt is legal, but Savo Minić is illegal," Dodik said.
He added that for the opposition, "an unconstitutional court is constitutional, an unconstitutional imposition of laws is constitutional, only Savo Minić is unconstitutional."
"For the opposition, the will of Sarajevo is like a commandment from God, but they despise the will of the Serbian people. And all this without a shred of shame," Dodik wrote regarding the opposition parties' reactions to the resignation of RS Prime Minister Sava Minić.
He also stated that anyone who expected the RS government to "silently and with folded arms watch Sarajevo's efforts to dominate Republika Srpska" was "grossly mistaken."
"Sarajevo's attempt to impose the RS president, against the will of the Serbian people, is just one in a series and will fail, just as all the previous ones failed," Dodik said, referring to the CEC's decision to annul voting at 136 polling stations in 17 cities and municipalities in the early elections for the RS president, held on November 23.
Dodik said that Sarajevo's desire to abolish the Serbian Orthodox Church, to deprive Serbs in BiH of their faith and identity, "will remain just an empty, never-fulfilled wish."
"They do not allow Željko (Cvijanović, the Serb member of the BiH Presidency) to call the institutions of BiH, which are nothing anyway, joint. Their plan to have five suitable Serbs in Sarajevo and one (opposition candidate for RS president Branko) Blanuša in Banja Luka, in order to govern RS, will not come true," he added.
He stated that "between Sarajevo and Republika Srpska, Serbs will always choose RS, regardless of their differences."
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