The hearing of Milorad Dodik, the President of Bosnia's Republika Srpska entity, before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina scheduled for 1 p.m. on Wednesday has been postponed with Dodik's defence team requesting that the prosecutor in this case is disqualified. His defence team also submitted another request for the case to be transferred to Banja Luka, the entity's administrative centre, but this has been dismissed by the court like the first time the same request was filed.

The Court also rejected the request to postpone the new date for the hearing scheduled for January 17.

Dodik addressed the media in front of the Court building, reiterating his stance that both the Court and the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina are not constitutional, just like the decisions that were imposed by international peace envoy in the country, High Representative Christian Schmidt.

He also slammed the prosecutor in his case, accusing him of being motivated by “mundane motives.”

“He is a man who cannot represent the Prosecutor's Office. He is not a lawyer because he would not allow himself to initiate this dispute, and it is known that there is no such thing in the law, and we doubt his motivation, expertise and morality,” Dodik underlined.

He used the opportunity to remind of his not recognising the legitimacy of high Representative Schmidt, accusing him of destroying the Constitution of BiH.

“Imagine that someone imposes changes to the Election Law, and then they say Dodik is rebelling and stealing the elections. It is unacceptable that you live in a country where electoral rules are imposed on you,” said Dodik announcing adoption of an election law on the entity level if Schmidt imposes an election rule.

“I don't want to live in that, I want to live in a constitutional country and I will do everything I can not to live in it. And I will not leave it, the RS will leave,” he said, hinting on his earlier threats of the entity's secession from the rest of the country.

Dodik also made a comment on the air pollution in Sarajevo, saying that “someone is deliberately bringing me to Sarajevo, the most polluted city in the world today from Laktasi (his place of residence) which is cleaner.”

“Then I think that someone is doing it on purpose to poison me. Your lungs are used to it, mine are not,” he noted.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the indictment against the President of the Republika Srpska (RS) entity Milorad Dodik and acting director of “RS Official Gazette” Milos Lukic in September.

Dodik and Lukic are charged with the criminal offence of failure to execute the decisions of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The indictment followed after the National Assembly of the RS adopted two disputed laws on June 27, which Dodik signed according to the regular legislative procedure, and published in the RS Official Gazette.

These are laws stating that the Office of the High Representative (OHR) decisions will no longer be published in this publication, and thus will not be implemented in that BiH entity, and that decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will no longer be enforced in the RS.

The High Representative in BiH, Christian Schmidt, annulled both laws with his decisions of July 1.