November 24, 2025
Bosnian Serbs vote to replace banned leader
. BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: Polls closed on Sunday in the Bosnian Serb entity after elections to replace its banned president, Milorad Dodik, who was ousted for defying Bosnia’s international peace envoy. Dodik was ousted from office in August after being convicted of ignoring the rulings of the international appointee overseeing a peace deal that has held Bosnia together since the end of the 1990s inter-ethnic war. The conflict left the country split into two semi-autonomous halves — Republika Srpska (RS) and a Bosnian-Croat federation — linked by weak central institutions.“These elections were organized by Bosnian Muslims and (Christian







