DODIK: WE STAND WITH ORBAN AND FIDESZ, UNITED BY SHARED VALUES

BUDAPEST, MARCH 21 /SRNA/ - SNSD President Milorad Dodik has stressed that he is in Budapest today primarily to support Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his FIDESZ party in the upcoming elections scheduled for April 12.

"We believe these are also our elections because we share the same value system. Viktor Orban is a true friend of the Serbian people as a whole, and equally a friend of Republika Srpska. He is a man who for many years has understood what we were saying, grasped the situation, and, as a political thinker, not just a prime minister, studied global developments marked by globalization, which in essence sought to crush and reduce to dust every identity, especially national, family, religious and everything that constituted traditional Christian civilization here", SNSD leader stressed. He told reporters in Budapest that he was particularly satisfied that, at such an important gathering, Prime Minister Orban openly highlighted his own path in defending those same values. "I am a proud Serb. I am a Serb nationalist and I have no reason not to say so. I am not a chauvinist, but I am someone ready at any time and place to defend our Serbian national identity without hesitation. Even when many laughed, and even some among our own people believed we should give in, to be completely defeated and destroyed politically and civilizationally, especially through politics coming from Sarajevo," Dodik pointed out. He reminded that he and his team did not stop even when, as he said, court rulings were fabricated, indictments imposed, and sanctions introduced. "We did not stop even when they said we were guilty. I believe that victories come later and that they will properly reflect the politics we are pursuing. This is something I learned working with our friends around the world who share these political values," Dodik emphasized. He added that he is not someone who would do harm to others because they belong to another nation, but that he has fought against policies he described as extreme toward the Serb people, which, through portraying Bosniaks as victims, sought to label and eliminate Serbs. "The Serbian people are not a criminal people. The Serbian people have never committed crimes. The Serbian people did not have camps in the Second World War. There were individual collaborators, but not systematic ones. What communists taught us about the Chetnik movement was false. Today, when you look at historical documents, you will see that the Chetnik movement was a national movement, and that crimes, where they occurred, came after previous crimes in the NDH. If you listen to communists, you will hear all kinds of things, because they wanted to equate the crimes of the Ustasha with the actions of the Chetniks," Dodik said. Republika Srpska, he added, must constantly speak about these issues, because if it does not, others will take over the media and public space and impose their own narrative. "You recently saw in Sarajevo statements against the Serbian Orthodox Church, and no one reacted to that. I wish them all the best, but without us. Republika Srpska did not receive its entity border by chance. It was established because there was no trust that a joint system could function. We are now in the final phase of Muslim expansionism. If there is something negative in BiH, it is Muslim chauvinism. This may sound like a story from the past, but we must talk about it. There is no reason to be relaxed, but there is also no reason not to be satisfied with what we have achieved. We survived the concept of a civic system -'one man, one vote' - which is unacceptable to us", Dodik said. He stressed that the Serb people and Republika Srpska must fight for Serb national interests. "We can no longer follow liberal ideologies. The only ideology that can be at the forefront is Serbian national ideology. Every decision must pass the test of Serbian national interest. The Serb people have always been on the side of justice," SNSD President Milorad Dodik concluded.