Dodik: Republika Srpska cannot accept Šmit's imposed decisions

"Šmit has nothing to do with the property or the electoral process, it is the property of the people living in Bosnia and Herzegovina," said the president of Republika Srpska.

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Milorad Dodik, Photo: Boris Pejović
Milorad Dodik, Photo: Boris Pejović
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The President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said today that the RS cannot accept to live under the conditions of imposed regulations, assessing that the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kristijan Šmit, has nothing to do with the election process in BiH.

Commenting on Šmit's announcement of the imposition of technical changes to the BiH Election Law, Dodik stated that "if this imposition passes, Šmit will not stop there".

He estimated that after that, Schmidt will also impose the law on state property, which, he said, is unacceptable.

"Šmit has nothing to do with the property or the election process, it is the property of the people living in Bosnia and Herzegovina. If you start doing that, then we have to take measures, and we have said what measures we will take," Dodik told reporters in Brod.

Earlier, he announced that in case the high representative imposes changes to the Election Law, the Republika Srpska will adopt its own election law, and that if Šmit imposes a law on state property, the RS will adopt measures on its future status.

Dodik believes that the possible imposition of amendments to the Election Law would represent "the annulment of all the stated values ​​so far", including those about the EU that they heard about "especially recently, when they gave Bosnia and Herzegovina a negotiating status".

"Then it's all a lie. Someone here is telling a big lie. Or it's about the fact that a few days after the decision, someone appears in Brussels who destroys it all, and the one who destroys it is the one who falsely presents himself as a high representative, who only listens to the American ambassador to BiH (Majkla Murphy) and the two of them in a pathological symbiosis are trying to impose as much evil as possible on all peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina," emphasized the President of the RS.

According to him, there is no country in the world where a foreigner or a foreign body would regulate the election process.

"Schmitt is trying to justify his salary of 25.000 euros and feed Murphy's vanity," said Dodik.

He also assessed the reaction of the American ambassador to BiH to HDZ's proposal for changes to the Election Law of BiH as unacceptable, announcing that political parties from the RS will also propose their own proposal for changes to the Election Law.

Dodik also made accusations against the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CEC), which he called "a usurping body that has no right to conduct local elections in the territory of the Republic of Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina".

"The CEC does not have the right to conduct republican elections of deputies, it does not have the right to elect the president of the Republika Srpska, representatives of the cantonal or federal authorities. This is clearly specified, but it has been usurped. The Republika Srpska must remain the property of what is its right," he concluded.

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