Top court ruling may bar Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik from politics

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Top court ruling may bar Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik from politics  Dodik, who serves as the president of the Western Balkan country's Serb-majority entity of the RS, has the right to appeal Wednesday's verdict.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/02/26/top-court-ruling-may-bar-bosnian-serb-leader-milorad-dodik-from-politics  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Bosnia's state-level court reached a verdict against Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik,

00:09sentencing him to one year in prison and barring him from politics for six years.

00:15Dodik, who serves as president of the Serb-majority region within the country, was found guilty

00:22of criminal conduct after defying the decisions of an international peace envoy sent to the

00:28nation.

00:56Dodik pushed through two laws adopted by the Serb-majority region's parliament related

01:01to preventing the implementation of state-level constitutional court rulings.

01:07The ruling follows more than a year of judicial proceedings in which Dodik and Milos Lukic,

01:13director of the official Gazette of Republika Srpska, were prosecuted for failing to implement

01:18decisions issued by the high representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kristian Schmidt.

01:25Lukic, in this process, has been acquitted of all charges.

01:29As this is a first instance ruling, both defendants had the right to appeal.

01:35Domina Corbic, Euronews, Sarajevo.

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