DODIK: SRPSKA WILL TAKE MEASURES; EQUALITY OF PEOPLES IS BEING CALLED INTO QUESTION

BANJA LUKA, FEBRUARY 25 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska will respond appropriately to the wishes of Muslims to impose, together with Christian Schmidt, technologies to be used in elections to obtain results that suit them, because this would call into question the equality of peoples, said SNSD leader Milorad Dodik.

"That is why there is such haste because this concerns an organized criminal group at the BiH level, made up of Muslim factions and foreigners who sit there and are trying to finish their spree and influence the elections," Dodik told reporters in Laktaši. Dodik noted that they had already tried this through snap elections and then through repeat elections for the president of Republika Srpska. "We see that this scumbag Christian Schmidt does not rest and continues to try to impose decisions. This has crossed every limit," Dodik said in reference to Schmidt's request that the Minister of Finance in the Council of Ministers of BiH Srđan Amidžić secure BAM 112 million for the introduction of new technologies into the electoral process. He stressed that many things in BiH have been undermined and called into question, such as the equality of the peoples, emphasizing that Serbs have an equal number of ministers who make decisions rather than their deputies, as Christian Schmidt would prefer. "Muslims will accept such conduct. They disrupted the financial system through earlier measures they undertook related to the seizure of funds from accounts belonging to Republika Srpska," Milorad Dodik recalled. He added that it is unacceptable to bypass a minister in decision-making, stressing that this constitutes anti-constitutional conduct. "These are criminals and thieves, and Schmidt receives a salary of 25,000. The countries that finance this are also a problem," Milorad Dodik emphasized. He also referred to the role of Sena Uzunović, a judge of the Court of BiH who issued the verdict in the case against the President of Republika Srpska, noting that she is continuing to penalize Serbs who question that verdict, as she is disturbed by the comments that followed. "She is disturbed, probably because of certain war crimes she did not adjudicate, such as the one in Bradina. She sentenced a man to a year in prison for merely writing something. Who are we living with, and what are we waiting for here?" Dodik asked. He warned that such conduct would ultimately pass judgment on everything in Republika Srpska and that the public must be awakened. "A man wrote that they had stirred up a hornet’s nest and received a year in prison for it. A few days ago, a man raised three fingers and got three years in prison. This is the country we live in. They went after me first, and now they are doing it to individuals who are not so socially exposed," said Milorad Dodik. He assessed that Republika Srpska needs to find a way to defend itself, because a noose has been created to strangle it.