Dodik says no to Homeland, Jakić without SDA and DF still offers, Ahmetović unaware of meeting

The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and SNSD leader stated today that the parliamentary majority in RS, which includes the SNSD-DNS-SP coalition and two independent MPs, will not include the "Domovina" coalition, reports the BH news agency Patria.

- Domovina is not in the parliamentary majority and we have no intention of cooperating with those whose programmatic principles are based on the "First of March" platform - said Dodik.

While Dodik categorically said no to "Domovina" in Banja Luka today, in Sarajevo, some representatives of the parties from the "Domovina" coalition, led by Vinko Jakić, without the presence of SDA and DF, discussed modalities of participation in the distribution of ministerial positions in the RS Government.

In a statement to the Patria agency, Sadik Ahmetović, head of the negotiation team, clearly stated that without Dodik's political message that he will stop denying genocide and the state of BiH and abolish discrimination in education, there will be no talks about the eventual participation of "Domovina" in the RS Government.

He also said that Vinko Jakić is just one member of the negotiation team, and that he, as the head, was not aware of today's meeting at all.

It is obvious that the participants of today's meeting in Sarajevo, carried away by discussions about ministerial chairs and positions in the Council of Peoples of RS, have forgotten the statements of the Prime Minister and some MPs about the "First of March" coalition.

We remind you that the Prime Minister of the RS Government, Željka Cvijanović, once requested the ban of "First of March", and some SNSD MPs even requested criminal prosecution of Emir Suljagić, the then coordinator of the coalition.