Opposition demands dismissal of RS Interior Minister Dragan Lukač

The opposition in the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska today demanded the dismissal of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republika Srpska, Dragan Lukač, reports the Patria news agency. 

They hold him responsible for accepting the amendments of the Bosniak Club in the Council of Peoples of the RS concerning national representation of employees in the RS police force according to the 1991 census.

The amendments were adopted along with the Law on Police and Internal Affairs in the RS, which will not receive the support of either the ruling majority or the opposition in tomorrow's repeated vote.

However, the opposition in the RS believes that someone must be held accountable for everything that happened with this law, the decree for which was not signed by the President of the RS, who instead sent it for a repeated vote in the National Assembly.

The head of the SDS parliamentary group, Vukota Govedarica, reminded reporters that Lukač had claimed the amendments were good, while accusing the opposition, which pointed out they were harmful, of politicking.

Govedarica called the ruling majority's refusal to discuss the law again in parliament before voting on it a "great scandal".

On the other hand, the head of the SNSD parliamentary group in the National Assembly, Radovan Višković, confirmed that his party will also not support the mentioned law, but that they will propose a new legal solution on police and internal affairs within a short period.

However, Višković did not confirm whether someone would be held accountable for the fact that the parliamentary majority initially adopted the Law on Police and Internal Affairs in the RS, and then supported the Bosniak amendments, only for Dodik to refuse to sign the decree for the promulgation of the law after warnings from the opposition.

Deputies will vote on the Law on Police and Internal Affairs tomorrow, BHT reports.