The latest hearing in the case against the president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, and acting director of the Official Gazette, Miloš Lukić, further confirms that this is a politically motivated process aimed at removing Dodik from the political scene, legal experts said during the “Drugi ugao” program on RTRS television.
According to these experts, the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, disregarding all legal norms and violating the Constitution of BiH, is directly undermining the country’s constitutional and legal order with this procedure.
- “If we consider the indictment itself, particularly its factual description, it cannot serve as a basis for conviction. In the preamble of the factual charges, it states that Milorad Dodik, in his capacity as the president of Republika Srpska, signed these two decrees in accordance with Article 80, point 4, of the Constitution of Republika Srpska. Such a formulation automatically excludes any illegality. Without illegality, there can be no criminal offense,” emphasized Goran Bubić, Dodik’s legal counsel.
Miljkan Pucar, the attorney representing acting director Miloš Lukić, called it disheartening that the Prosecutor’s Office proceeded with this case.
“What is even more disheartening is their claim that the basis for this case lies in Annex 10 of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which is simply not true,” Pucar stated.
Vitomir Popović, a professor at the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka, stressed that no legal grounds exist for pursuing such charges, especially given that the president of Republika Srpska was exercising constitutional powers explicitly outlined by the Constitution itself.
- “It is well known that even if he had refused, there would have been a specific time frame after which such a law or decision would have formally taken effect. The same applies to Lukić,” Popović noted.
Source: RTRS
