De-escalation

Ana Trisic-Babic (RTRS PrtScr)

As local media see it, last week’s decisions by Republika Srpska’s ruling coalition led by Milorad Dodik have paved the way to the so-called American plan to de-escalate the political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Analysts would go even further, saying that the decisions were the beginning of a “silent transition of power” in the Bosnian Serb entity. What the public perceives as critical moves include Dodik’s decisions to appoint his close associate Ana Trisic-Babic, also seen as a NATO lobbyist, as the acting president of the entity, and to annul a package of laws the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina had overturned on the grounds that they were contrary to the Dayton Accords and unconstitutional.