Referendum of Serbian Bosnians to keep Vladimir Putin's ally, despite the decisions issued by the federal authorities. “Go on a mining ground”

Republica Srpska (RS) of Bosnia and Herzegovina will organize a referendum on October 25 against the decision by which the federal court forbade Milorad Dodik to hold the position of president of the small majority Serbian political entity, an order that he defies, AFP reports.

Legisters in the regional Parliament of the RS voted on Friday night to organize the referendum. The political crisis on Dodik has worsened this week, with the prime minister resigning Monday.

Dodik, 66, was sentenced in February by a federal court in Bosnia, who found him guilty of undermining the fragile functioning of the Balkan Country by violating the provisions issued by the international envoy that supervises the implementation of the peace agreement that ended the war between 1992 and 1995.

Dodik avoided entering prison, for one -year sentence, by paying a 19,000 euro fine, but the court of appeal has maintained the decision to remove it from the RS presidency and to prohibit you to hold public functions for a period of six years.

Milorad Dodik defies the order of removal from office

The regional leader, who holds the position of president of the seven -year -old RS, threatened to block the elections and organize a series of referendums. The one voted on Friday night is the first of them.

According to the decision taken by the Serbian Bosnians, the following question will appear on the voting bulletin from the voting of October: “Accept the decisions of the Neales foreigner (Christian Schmidt's international envoy) and the unconstitutional verdict of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina against the President of the RS, as well as the decision of the Bosnian Commission. RS, Milorad Dodik? ”.

Of the 65 legislators present in the RS Parliament, 50 voted in favor of the referendum. The representatives of the opposition abstained from the vote.

“I will not stay in your way … But go on a mining ground,” warned the opponent Nebojsa Vukanovic, a fierce critic of Dodik.

Asked for support from Russia, Hungary and Serbia

Following the decision of the Bosnian authorities to leave Milorad Dodik without the position of president of the small most Serbian political entity from Bosnia and Herzegovina, CNN wrote about the nationalist controversial, a genocide in Srebenica in 1995, that he requested the support of his allies in Moscow, Budapest and Budapest.

Dodik is considered a key Balkan ally for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Moscow has long focused on it to cause tensions in the region, noting the American publication in the analysis of the RS leader.

The leader of the Serbian Bosnians has been in power since 2006. He blames Christian Schmidt, an international emissary for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2001 and former German minister, for the order of removal.

The multi -ethnic state of Bosnia and Herzegovina was born in 1995, through the Dayton peace agreements, which stopped the violence that had spread in the former Yugoslavia as it was destroyed in the 90s, driven by the frantic effort of the Serbian president since then, Slobodan Miloşevici, to create a “great”.

Although the Dayton agreements stopped the Bosnian war, they left the country divided on ethnic criteria. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country of two entities: the federation, where the Bosnians (the Bosnian Muslims) share the power with the Croats, and the Republic of Srpska, dominated by Serbs. Above them is a central government largely powerless and a “high representative” foreign, to whom extensive powers are entrusted to implement the agreement and maintain peace.