Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina

A Bosnian NGO has filed criminal complaints against Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik, accusing him of inciting hatred for describing Bosniaks as ‘Turks’.

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik yielded to growing internal and international pressure on Monday and announced he was postponing the disputed referendum which had threatened to raise ethnic tensions in the country.

The Bosnian Serb proposal to reform Bosnia's Constitutional Court caused a stir in the House of Representatives of parliament on Wednesday after the Constitutional Commission - in charge of examining the constitutionality of draft laws before they are submitted to the chamber - rejected it.

Legal experts said a referendum in Bosnia’s Serb-led entity Republika Srpska questioning the authority of the state court and prosecution would not weaken the state judiciary but would destabilise the country.

The Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina has issued an order to search "premises, accounts, and transactions" of Milorad Dodik, RTRS has reported.

Dodik is the president of the Serb entity in Bosnia, the Serb Republic (RS).

RS President Milorad Dodik has said that Bosnia-Herzegovina is "a state union," while state competencies on all levels are held by its entities.

These entities are the Serb Republic (RS) and the Croat-Muslim Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (FBiH).

RS President Milorad Dodik says all conditions have been met to publish a decision on an upcoming referendum in the Official Gazette.

The Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (RS) plants to hold a plebiscite on the work of the Court and the Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia president believes the Serbian PM has put pressure on the president of the RS, the Serb entity in Bosnia.

Bosnian Serbs celebrated the Day of Republika Srpska on Saturday, despite the fact that the holiday was declared unconstitutional by the Bonsnian Constitutional Court.

RS President Milorad Dodik has said that the Serb Republic (Republika Srpska, RS) - the Serb entity in Bosnia - is "a state."

The fact it is "being denied" speaks to its actual importance, he asserted, and added: