ELECTIONS WILL CHANGE NOTHING, SNSD REMAINS IN POWER

BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 1 /SRNA/ – SNSD Leader Milorad Dodik says the elections will not change anything and that his party will remain the ruling political force.

"SNSD remains the ruling party, and I remain its leader. All my associates have expressed loyalty. The coalition in Republika Srpska has absolutely remained within this framework, and I cooperate with them excellently," Dodik said in an interview for SRNA and RTRS in Sochi. He has added that some people believe they will gain something from this, just so they can brag in Sarajevo, as was said yesterday that he who comes the next will go through the same as Dodik if doesn’t comply. "You want to build that kind of system, which is just one more reason for us to say that such BiH makes no sense," said Dodik. What was said yesterday, Dodik described it as the mentality of Sarajevo Ottoman-era seating bench. "That reflects their way of thinking, and Elmedin Konaković is just dumb enough to say it out publically," Dodik said.