'Now There Are Two Dodiks' - Snap Election in Republika Srpska Secures Power for the Nationalists

Bosnian Serb voters have chosen Sinisa Karan, an ally of banned leader Milorad Dodik, to fill the presidency in a snap election held on Sunday, preliminary results indicate. The vote was called to resolve months of political instability following Dodik’s removal from office in August for defying rulings by Christian Schmidt, the international overseer of Bosnia’s post-war peace framework.The conflict in the 1990s left Bosnia divided into two semi-autonomous entities: the Serb-led Republika Srpska (RS) and a Bosniak-Croat federation, linked by weak central institutions....Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Novinite Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Novinite