US EditionBosnia's Serb Republic appoints interim president, seals Dodik's departure from post
- On Saturday, the Republika Srpska parliament appointed Ana Trisic Babic as interim president to serve one month until early elections on November 23.
- A Sarajevo court convicted Milorad Dodik for refusing to comply with Christian Schmidt’s decisions, and the Central Electoral Commission removed him under a rule barring officials sentenced to more than six months.
- Dodik has repeatedly refused to vacate office, continuing presidential duties and traveling abroad while appealing the court ruling; he is a pro-Russian nationalist pushing Republika Srpska’s secession, alarming Bosniak communities.
- Annulments aim to restore the authority of Bosnia’s constitutional institutions as the Republika Srpska parliament annulled separatist laws challenging the international envoy and Bosnia’s constitutional court, reinforcing the Dayton Accords that ended a war killing about 100,000 people.
- Dodik retains strong regional backing from leaders such as Aleksandar Vucic and Viktor Orban while appealing Bosnia’s constitutional court and continuing to claim presidential powers.
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In Republika Srpska, the part of Bosnia and Herzegovina where Bosnian Serbs live primarily, Ana Trisic-Babic has been appointed interim president. This finally signals Milorad Dodik's own admission that he is no longer president. The pro-Russian nationalist was convicted and removed from office earlier this year.
The leader of the Bosnian Serbs was convicted in February and was therefore barred from holding political office. When parliament appointed an interim president last Sunday, Dodik did not oppose it.
An interim president was appointed this weekend. Dodik was convicted and removed from office months ago, but initially refused to step down.
After almost two decades at the hands of the Bosnian Serb entity, Milorad Dodik was replaced, on Saturday 18 October, by an interim president, Ana Trisic Babic, a close friend of this powerful leader, who was defeated for defying the highest political authority of the Bosnian Serb Republic.
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