MINIĆ: THERE ARE HIGHER BODIES THAT WILL CORRECT POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF DODIK

BANJA LUKA, NOVEMBER 4 /SRNA/ – The Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Savo Minić has stated that today’s decision of the incomplete Constitutional Court of BiH has nailed the last nail into the coffin of the BiH judiciary, but expressed hope that there are higher international institutions that will correct the political persecution of the legitimate President Milorad Dodik.

Minić said it was incomprehensible that the Constitutional Court, which should protect the BiH Constitution, is in this case protecting an illegal, illegitimate, and non-existent high representative. "It protects acts not adopted by the BiH Parliamentary Assembly and it protects the non-existent Bonn Powers", Minić told reporters in Banja Luka. He emphasized that a court which acts on such a truncated and distorted legal basis is carrying out a classic political persecution of the legitimately elected President of Republika Srpska. "This was only a precondition, as we knew what the decision would be, to seek justice before higher international institutions. We must hope, given the political changes occurring lately, that someone will finally realize this is a fabricated process and a product of the former U.S. administration’s agenda", Minić said. He expressed confidence that there will be institutions and mechanisms to correct this political persecution. "They were not able to prove all the lies directed at President Dodik, and through these amendments to the Criminal Code they have managed to reach this Constitutional Court decision", Minić said. Commenting on the decision of the BiH Prosecutor’s Office to suspend the investigation for an alleged attack on the constitutional order against President Milorad Dodik, National Assembly Speaker Nenad Stevandić, and former Prime Minister Radovan Višković, Minić said that this outcome was logical and expected. "The acts submitted by the President of Republika Srpska, the Speaker of the National Assembly, and the former Prime Minister related to the Law on the Protection of the Constitutional Order of BiH and the protection of the Dayton Agreement. In this absurd situation, they simply could not go that far", Minić said. The incomplete Constitutional Court of BiH today rejected the appeal filed by President Milorad Dodik’s defense against the verdict of the BiH Court, which sentenced him to one year in prison and six years of prohibition from political activity for “non-compliance with the decisions of Christian Schmidt.” Goran Bubić, President Dodik’s attorney, told SRNA this evening that by rejecting the appeal, the incomplete Constitutional Court of BiH confirmed that the BiH Constitution, as the highest legal act, is not being applied in the country, but rather the political decisions of a self-proclaimed foreigner. He announced that proceedings would be initiated before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.