Former President of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska Dragan Kalinić stated that the verdict against President Milorad Dodik represents the peak of an anti-sovereignist policy, stressing that the announced referendum in Republika Srpska should be held to show how absurd and misguided certain court decisions are.
Kalinić emphasized that it is unacceptable to accept a verdict against the institution of the president of Republika, nor to allow an attack on Dodik’s sovereignist policy.
He believes that attempts to impose early elections in Republika Srpska cannot be tolerated, nor should power be handed on a silver platter to a frustrated opposition and the self-proclaimed high representative.
“Even if a legal interregnum has been ‘created,’ it will be bridged by the announced referendum, as the highest expression of our citizens’ political will. If it can be done in Europe, in the world—why not here as well?” Kalinić asked.
He reminded that such precedents already existed in BiH before the tragic war conflict that was imposed on the Serbs.
“Schmidt and his vassals in Sarajevo and in Republika Srpska are spreading the narrative that this is playing with fire. I think the opposite. A referendum, which I believe the majority of our citizens will attend, will help de-escalate the political situation,” Kalinić said, adding that it will also demonstrate the absurdity of certain court rulings.
According to him, parts of the opposition in Republika Srpska also fear such an outcome, because it would leave them without the coveted seats both in Sarajevo and in Banja Luka. Once Dodik’s legal team exhausts all appeals in BiH, the case will eventually reach the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, he noted.
Kalinić also said that, given new geopolitical shifts, it is not excluded that the entire controversial issue may end up before the UN Security Council.
“The last thing the world needs is a new fire in BiH and this region,” said Kalinić, who is also a member of the Association Founders of Republika Srpska.
BiH as a testing ground between globalists and sovereignists
He underlined that BiH, even 30 years after the Dayton Agreement, has remained a testing ground where globalists and sovereignists measure their strength, while Western embassies and high representatives have for years been dismantling BiH from within.
According to him, BiH could have become a true state of two entities and three constituent peoples had it remained faithful to Dayton’s original principles.
“Instead, day by day, BiH proves to be an impossible state, because at least two peoples are dissatisfied with life in it,” Kalinić told Srna.
He assessed that the current, and most severe, political crisis so far is the result of the open actions of the so-called deep state—American Democratic and quasi-European structures.
“These dark forces, Western embassies, and high representatives have destroyed BiH from within,” Kalinić said, adding that they persist in the narrative that Serbs are a rebellious and politically immature people who must constantly be punished, disciplined, and persecuted.
“Let us not forget—we created a free, democratic state even before the war, as an expression of our people’s sovereign will. And let us not forget that we transferred part of our sovereignty to this ‘new’ BiH,” Kalinić emphasized.
On the other hand, he noted, European globalists have through relentless propaganda created the image that Muslims, supposedly civic-oriented, are the only salvation for BiH’s survival.
“But we all know they are deeply steeped in unitarist mantras, and not a small number of them in hatred,” Kalinić said.
He pointed out that supranational Europeans openly claim that there are still “acceptable Serbs” in BiH, essentially new Bogićevićs and Lazovićs, who together with such “pro-European Bosniaks” could make BiH a “normal state” again.
“In such an environment, since Dayton—and especially in recent years—there has been a witch hunt against nationally conscious Serbs who do not hide their devotion to national sovereignty, recognizing that the people are the true bearers of that sovereignty,” Kalinić explained.
Therefore, he concluded, power stems from the people and belongs to the people, and only the people have the right to decide the fate of that power.
“On that basis, Republika Srpska’s institutions were established and continue to function. The president, the National Assembly, and the government are the expression of the legal and legitimate will of the people, manifested in free elections,” Kalinić stressed.
“If these principles applied in the French Revolution and after the American Civil War, why shouldn’t they apply today?” Kalinić asked.
Source: RTRS
