The opposition in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated part has not had the right policy, as they have emulated the tactics of Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik but failed to cause damage to him or his party, an official from the Social Democratic Party (SDP) told N1 on Monday.

SDP’s Miro Lazovic spoke about the results of the country’s October 7 General Election.

“I expected this outcome,” he said, adding that he believed the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), the ruling party in the semi-autonomous entity of Republika Srpska (RS), would win regardless of all the efforts a coalition of opposition parties in the RS, the Alliance for Victory, had put into trying to change the political atmosphere there.

Lazovic touched upon a protest of a group of RS citizens who have been demanding that authorities in the RS reveal who the killers of 21-year-old David Dragicevic, whose lifeless body was found in a local river in March.The protesters believe that employees and even top officials in the RS Ministry of Interior are either behind the murder or hiding the true perpetrators.

“Milorad Dodik has, in the RS, endured all those attacks,” Lazovic said.

He said that the Alliance for Victory and the parties within it tried to use the Dragicevic case in order to “create a political climate against the SNSD,” but failed.

“They tried to copy Milorad Dodik in a lot of things in the RS, and Dodik has, with his brutal and aggressive campaign, managed to amortize them and in a way compromise them publicly in the RS and in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” he said, explaining that the RS opposition was not able to break away from Dodik’s aggressive politics.

He also spoke about the result of the Party for Democratic Action (SDA), the main Bosniak political party in the country, saying that he expected they would win less support in the Bosniak-Croat Federation (FBiH) entity than they did.

“I expected a weaker result from the SDA in FBiH considering the internal turmoil in the recent period. I especially expected this in the Sarajevo Canton,” he said.

But the SDA managed to consolidate and achieve a good result, he said, adding that the party managed to keep ten lawmaker seats in the Sarajevo Canton Assembly which they won in 2014.

“For me, this was a surprise,” he said.

Civic, non-ethnic oriented parties which are part of the opposition have also achieved a “small jump” at the entity and state levels, he said.