Milorad Dodik (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)
By launching proceedings against Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik, the court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is effectively putting on trial the Dayton Peace Agreement and the right of the people of Republika Srpska to pass laws via their chosen representatives, the New Democratic Party of Serbia stated on Feb. 26.
The New Democrats’ press release maintains that the process against Dodik is itself legally “questionable and scandalous,” given that it is for a crime defined by a law imposed by the high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and not based on a law legally and legitimately passed by the country’s elected legislature.
“Given that Christian Schmidt, who imposed the law, himself has no legitimacy – because he was not appointed high representative by the U.N. Security Council – his actions also represent a violation of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which prescribes the election process for and the jurisdiction of the high representative,” the party’s statement reads.
The verdict in the case against Dodik, who is on trial for defying Schmidt’s decisions, is supposed to be pronounced by the Bosnian and Herzegovinian court on Feb. 26.
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