The President of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Milorad Dodik, said on Wednesday that this entity will remain consistent with its policy of not appointing two ethnic Serb judges to the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina until a law on this court is passed, adding that he "remembers the previous decisions, which were made by three foreign judges and two Bosniaks, that were to the detriment of Republika Srpska."

“That's why the only rational political move is not to elect our representatives to the Constitutional Court and thus give legitimacy to that court that acts against us in all individual decisions,” Dodik told reporters in Banja Luka.

He stated that one can hear strange ideas that these judges can be appointed by the High Representative.

“That just shows how broken that system is,” Dodik said.

He noted that the RS tried to recall its judges before, but that the circumstances have now been created that the issue of the Constitutional Court has become the most important political issue in BiH from the point of view of the manner and regulation of its work.

Dodik added that the RS advocates the position of passing a law on the Constitutional Court and electing local judges, and proposed that three judges be elected by the BiH Parliament, and the other members be elected as before.

He recalled that the Constitutional Court is elected in such a way that the RS elects two judges, the Federation of BiH (FBiH) four, while the President of the European Court of Justice appointed three. He repeated that “foreigners have never brought good to this region, neither to Serbs, nor to Croats, nor to Bosniaks.”

“That was supposed to happen five years after Dayton and means that in 2000 a new structure of the Constitutional Court should have been created. They continued to work using the then High Representatives to devastate the RS, and when they saw that they could no longer do it, they transferred it to the Constitutional Court. The presence of our people in the Constitutional Court was meant to cover the bad intentions and actions of the Constitutional Court towards the RS”, he said.

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be left without another judge on January 1st. Zlatko Knezevic decided to retie early. After Miodrag Simovic and Mate Tadic, who retired earlier, Seada Palavric, who will turn 70, is expected to leave in October next year. This will reduce the Constitutional Court from nine to five judges.

The Court consists of nine members. Four are elected by the FBiH House of Representatives, and two by the RS National Assembly. The remaining three members, bothering Milorad Dodik the most, are international judges chosen by the President of the European Court of Human Rights, after consultation with the BiH Presidency.

The RS National Assembly Speaker, Nenad Stevandic, called on foreign judges, on Tuesday, to resign and withdraw from the work of that institution.