Milorad Dodik

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Prof.dr.Milorad Dodik
Милорад Додик
Milorad Dodik
Incumbent
Assumed office 
30 November 2006
Deputy Anton Kasipović (Indp.)[1]
Omer Branković (SDA)[2][3]
Preceded by Milorad Dodik (previous term)
10th Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska
In office
28 February 2006 – 30 November 2006
Preceded by Pero Bukejlović
Succeeded by Milorad Dodik (third term)
6th Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska
In office
18 January 1998 – 12 January 2001
Preceded by Gojko Kličković
Succeeded by Mladen Ivanić
Born March 12, 1959 (age 48)[4]
Laktaši, Bosnia and Herzegovina
(then Yugoslavia)
Political party Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD)
Religion Serbian Orthodox Christian[citation needed]

Prof.dr Milorad Dodik (Cyrillic: Милорад Додик) (born March 12, 1959, Laktaši, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 28 February 2006. He had a previous mandate from January 18, 1998 to January 12, 2001. He is also President of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (Cyrillic: Савез независних социјалдемократа , Latinic: Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata).

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[edit] Political career

He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade with an M.A. in Political Science. From 1986 through 1990 he was the President of the Executive Board of the Municipal Assembly of Laktaši (i.e. the municipal "prime minister"). In 1990, in the first multi-party elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina he was elected to the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a candidate of the Union of Reform Forces. During the War in Bosnia, he served as a representative in the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska. During that time, he formed the Independent Members of Parliament Caucus (Клуб независних посланика у Народној Скупштини Републике Српске/Klub nezavisnih poslanika u Narodnoj Skupštini Republike Srpske), which arguably confronted the Serb Democratic Party (Српска демократска странка/Srpska demokratska stranka), which had the absolute majority in the war-time parliament of the Republika Srpska.

The caucus he chaired was to form the core of the Party of Independent Social Democrats (Stranka nezavisnih socijaldemokrata, or SNSD) in 1996, after the peace was signed as a result of the Dayton Agreement. He was elected as the first President of SNSD. The party later united with another social-democratic party to form the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, of which prof.dr.Milorad Dodik is President. In 1997, he was elected into the NSRS.

[edit] Prime Minister of Republika Srpska (1998-2001, 2005-)

In January 1998, the then President of Republika Srpska Biljana Plavšić nominated him for Prime Minister. His government lasted through to January 2001.

During the years in opposition, he concentrated on the strengthening of his political party, which swept the elections in October 2006. During the election campaign, which he led under the slogan "RS, a better part of BiH" he stood opposite to the calls from the other BiH entity (namely from the Bosniak-dominated Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBiH)) for the abolishment on the Republika Srpska. In response to this, he called for a referendum on the future survival of Republika Srpska.

In 2006, there were reports of a planned assassination of Dodik, with the remnants of the criminal group responsible for the assassination of Serbia's Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić.

[edit] Political Program

Milorad Dodik claims that he stands for a Bosnia and Hercegovina that is organized as a decentralized, federative state, with the RS as one federative unit. Dodik believes that Bosnia and Herzegovina, as multinational state, needs a sophisticated political system which would distribute political power equally, in order to protect its citizens' rights and prevent any of its constitutional nations' from being in a permanent political minority. Dodik believes that the introduction of a simple "one person-one vote" system would lead to the country being unfairly dominated by the Bosniaks, and that it would be inappropriate in such a complex multinational state. He also believes in the economy as primary driver of the recovery of both the Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[edit] References

  1. ^ [http://store.eiu.com/product/50000205BA-sample.html Economist Intelligence Unit: Country Report Bosnia-Hercegovina (sample)]
  2. ^ SDA: Kandidatske liste SDA (2006)
  3. ^ US Department of State: Bosnia and Herzegovina background note
  4. ^ []

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