Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik's new laws spark major political crisis

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Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik's new laws spark major political crisis  The Bosnian Serb leader enacted laws to ban state-level security and judicial bodies in one part of the country's territory, following his controversial sentencing last Wednesday.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/03/06/bosnian-serb-leader-milorad-dodiks-new-laws-spark-major-political-crisis  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The head of Bosnia's Serb majority entity, the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, introduced

00:08new laws meant to ban the operation of state-level security and judicial institutions within

00:14the region.

00:15The acts come in response to the first instance verdict by the country's state-level court

00:20sentencing Dodik to one year in prison and banning him from politics for six years.

00:26He was convicted for going against the decisions of the international community's peace envoy.

00:31The position has existed since 1995, when a peace deal came into force, ending a bloody

00:37conflict between the country's three main ethnic groups, Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats.

00:44This deal split the country into two administrative units, Serb majority Republika Srpska and

00:50the Bosnian Croat Federation.

00:52It is very clear to us in Banja Luka that the Bosniaks in Sarajevo and Sarajevo are

00:57creating and wanting a war conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

01:00This war conflict is motivated by their constant, long-term efforts to, as they say, solve

01:09the problem or to perform some kind of sanctification towards the Serbs, considering that they should

01:15eliminate in the political sense every Serb who does not correspond to their political

01:22projections.

01:24Neighbouring Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vučić, said he insisted Dodik goes to the

01:29Bosnian capital for talks after the verdict, but said there was no response apart from

01:34a barrage of insults.

01:37When I was in Banja Luka for the last time, I asked the leadership of the Republika Srpska

01:43and the president Dodik to send a request for talks to people in Sarajevo.

01:48A day after that, apart from a barrage of insults, pathological insults, I would say,

01:56we did not get anything else as an answer.

02:01I have always believed that every conversation is better, more noble, more important than

02:08any demonstration of strength, power, strength.

02:14Bosnian officials challenged the contentious legislation in the country's constitutional

02:19court, saying the laws were a violation of the peace agreement that ended the 1992-1995 war.

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