The government of the Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has called on Serbs to withdraw from the country’s electoral body as the entity looks to adopt its own election law and form a separate election commission and related structures to protest changes recently imposed by a Western-backed envoy ahead of the upcoming municipal elections in October, DTT-Net reports.
Last week, during a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán while on a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said he was ready to make a decision on RS independence if pressure on the republic from foreign actors continues.
According to the constitution proposed in the General Framework Peace Agreement for Bosnia (Dayton Agreement), BiH consists of two entities: the Muslim-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (about 51 per cent of the country’s territory) and Republika Srpska (about 49 per cent of the territory), as well as the Brcko District.
Three main peoples are proportionally represented in the system of state administration: Bosniaks (Slavs who converted to Islam), Serbs (Orthodox) and Croats (Catholics).
