Republika Srpska is entering a period of important and fateful decisions in response to the actions of the illegitimate Christian Schmidt and political processes conducted before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, announced President Milorad Dodik. There will be no early presidential elections in Srpska, and a series of referendums on the entity’s status are expected.
Dodik also emphasized that international circumstances favor Srpska, since the meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska was in many ways an announcement of a new geopolitical framework, based on sovereignty rather than imposed solutions and interventionism.
“There will be no early elections of any kind in Srpska,” Dodik said clearly.
In addition to the fact that public facilities such as schools and cultural centers will not be allowed to be used for that purpose, laws will be adopted under which any participation in election boards will be treated as a criminal act of undermining the constitutional order of Republika Srpska.
Alongside the election boycott, the National Assembly will also adopt a decision on a referendum in which citizens will declare whether they support an unelected foreigner making decisions and undermining the constitutional order of Republika Srpska, and whether the unconstitutional Court can, by its rulings, remove democratically elected representatives of Srpska’s institutions.
“In the coming days we will assess when this should be done, but I believe it will happen in September and that the decision to ban elections will be adopted at the first session, along with the decision on the first referendum. The second referendum will be aimed at pulling Srpska out of the deadly grip of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the hybrid war waged by the West,” Dodik stated.
He stressed that activities will also be conducted on the international level.
The focus, he said, will be on contacts with the new U.S. administration, since Trump himself said that the United States will abandon support for the creation of failed states and nations, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, which Dodik is convinced represents a major opportunity for Srpska.
“I think we are very close to being able to present our situation. We expect understanding on that side. We receive support from people in the U.S. who now formally hold office, who are our friends and who tell us: wait a little longer, don’t give up the fight, the past 30 years have all been wrong, the U.S. has an obligation to change its approach. We are waiting for that, and I say it publicly because I have been given public promises of that kind,” Dodik said firmly.
The Trump–Putin meeting in Alaska, Dodik added, announced major global changes and the creation of a new geopolitical framework in which the role and influence of the European Union will significantly weaken while sovereigntist movements will grow stronger—something Republika Srpska can be satisfied with.
He added that Trump, with one meeting, swept away the politics of Russophobia, which had been raised to an incredible level.
“This is the collapse of the EU, the collapse of its policy. This is an event that has undoubtedly set new processes in motion. We must understand those processes, we must participate in them. We must not gloat here that an entire Western structure, which has waged hybrid war against Srpska for 30 years, has been defeated. They will remain here, still significantly strong, but these are no longer the foundations they once were,” Dodik emphasized.
He also said he is deeply concerned about what is happening in Serbia.
He stressed that Republika Srpska strongly opposes violence and the destruction of the Serbian state.
“We support the legitimately elected government in Serbia and its efforts to stabilize the country. We believe that the government in Serbia, which has received a mandate, should exercise that mandate until the moment of new elections, when the people should once again decide—not the street and violence,” Dodik said categorically.
Dodik also called on representatives in the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina not to vote for the budget that will be proposed by Denis Bećirović and Željko Komšić, most likely by outvoting Serb member of the Presidency Željka Cvijanović, because Srpska does not want to finance cultural institutions working against its interests or to strengthen the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As for the financial situation in Srpska, Dodik said that despite enormous pressures, certain delays in cash flow, and obstruction of many public and private investments, the situation remains stable and that starting in September pensions and veterans’ benefits will once again be increased.
Source: RTRS
