Bosnia’s Foreign Trade Minister has offered his resignation on Thursday amid “very negative reactions from the public” and calls for his removal from office after he attended a birthday party in Sarajevo earlier this week, breaching the measures introduced as part of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
Police in Sarajevo busted on Monday evening what would later be dubbed the ‘corona party’ on social media – a birthday party of the now-former chief of General and Abdominal Surgery at the Sarajevo University Clinical Centre, Jusuf Sabanovic.
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Several celebrities attended the party and a number of guests were fined, while Sabanovic was removed from his position.
Among the guests was Stasa Kosarac, Bosnia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Economic Relations.
In a post on social media on Thursday, Kosarac offered his resignation due to his “irresponsible behaviour” and amid “very negative reactions from the public and many citizens” as well as criticism from the leader of his party, Milorad Dodik.
“Throughout the past two days I have avoided any unnecessary contact and since this afternoon I am in home isolation in Eastern Sarajevo,” he wrote, adding that he will be working from home for the next 14 days.
Dodik, one of the members of Bosnia’s Presidency and leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), the ruling party in Bosnia’s Serb-majority Republika Srpska (RS) region, said after the news of the party came out that Kosarac has ended his political career with the SNSD.
