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The turnout in Sunday's referendum in the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska (RS) was 55.75% and 99.91% voted "yes", the RS commission implementing the referendum said on Monday. Based on the results, the commission established that the referendum was valid because a majority of citizens, 677,000, voted "yes", commission chairman Sinisa Karan told a press conference in Banja Luka, adding that these were preliminary data and that the final results would be adopted by the RS parliament. Despite the Sarajevo-based Constitutional Court's recent ban on this plebiscite, voting took place at 1,885 polling stations in the entity and 28 abroad, with 680,116 people exercising their voting right. The referendum question was whether they supported that January 9 should continue to be celebrated as RS Day, although the Constitutional Court ruled last year that the date is unconstitutional as it discriminates against Croats and Bosniaks as constituent peoples in the entity. According to a census compiled by the RS authorities for the referendum, there were 1,219,395 eligible voters, but the credibility of the census is doubtful as, according to the latest population census in Bosnia and Herzegovina, RS has 1,228,423 inhabitants. Karan said the census compiled by the entity authorities was "the most relevant" and more precise than the Bosnian population census and voter register. "Those are citizens who, as of July 15, have residence in RS and are automatically eligible to vote," he said. Bosniak officials in the RS authorities insist the data on the outcome of the referendum are forged, claiming that voting was irregular and that everything was done to make the turnout seem above 50%, which is required by law for a referendum to be declared valid. RS Vice President Ramiz Salkic, who represents Bosniaks, said the referendum failed because of an insufficient turnout. "The results they are publishing are a matter of stretching and framing," the Fena news agency quoted him as saying. "It's all a big farce and a fraud," he said, calling on the international community to take resolute action against the organisers because the Bosnian Constitutional Court banned the referendum. Salkic warned that, as soon as the results were announced, RS President Milorad Dodik and other Serb officials announced the continuation of the entity's separation from Bosnia. "They announced it clearly last night in their statements, that this is the first referendum and there will be more... Both domestic institutions and the Office of the High Representative must strongly react so that this separatism is stopped." Dodik on Sunday evening expressed satisfaction with "the success of the referendum" and stated that one should not rule out a similar plebiscite to be held on the status of the entity when time ripened for such a move. Dodik said at a news conference that Sunday's referendum "has been about the Day of RS and not about its status." An angry Dodik answered the question whether there would be a referendum on the secession of the entity, claiming that "when the time comes, we will talk about that topic." He also underlined that this was also regulated in the programme of his SNSD party. Bosnia and Herzegovina's collective presidency chairman, Bakir Izetbegovic, who is the Bosnian Muslim leader, said on Sunday that Dodik and others engaged in the holding of the unlawful referendum on the entity's holiday would have to face the consequences of that "anti-constitutional and illegal act". Izetbegovic said the referendum was a notorious example of violation of the Dayton peace accords and that the Bosnian judicial authorities as well as the international community should respond to this insistence of the Bosnian Serb authorities on the referendum. He also described Dodik's behaviour as irrational stubbornness. Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) president Andrej Plenkovic, who is the Croatian PM-Designate hopeful, said recently he was against the disputed referendum on the entity's holiday because it could lead to a referendum on the Serb entity's secession from Bosnia and Herzegovina. "I'm against that referendum. It could be the first step towards a referendum that would lead to the separation of RS from BiH, which isn't good. That's also the uniform position of the international community, Croatia and all key political stakeholders in the country," Plenkovic told reporters a few days ago. Related Bosnian Serbs vote in referendum for disputed entity holiday Balkan Monday, September 26, 2016 - 08:07 Izetbegovic: Peace in Bosnia seriously threatened, Serb entity referendum must be prevented Balkan Monday, August 15, 2016 - 19:08 Bosniaks in Serb entity urged not to vote in referendum Balkan Friday, September 23, 2016 - 17:52
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Europska unija će veoma brzo razmatrati odluku vlasti u Republici Srpskoj da raspišu referendum o odlukama visokog predstavnika za Bosnu i Hercegovinu, najavio je u utorak zastupnik u Europskom parlamentu Jelko Kacin dodajući kako su za Uniju neprihvatljivi takvi pokušaji destabiliziranja BiH 'Mogu kazati, bez nakane da govorim u ime Europskog vijeća, da će se BiH i odluka vlasti RS o referendumu vrlo brzo naći na dnevnom redu zasjedanja šefova država ili vlada zemalja članica Unije', kazao je Kacin, potpredsjednik izaslanstva Europskog parlamenta za zapadni Balkan, kako ga citira sarajevski 'Dnevni avaz'. On je ocijenio kako je neprihvatljiva odluka parlamenta RS da raspiše referendum na kojemu bi se građani tog entiteta očitovali o tome podupiru li odluke visokog predstavnika, a posebice onu o uspostavi Suda i Tužiteljstva BiH. Kacin ocjenjuje kako su ovakvi postupci vlasti RS rezultat činjenice da je taj entitet zapravo pred bankrotom pa se javnosti pokušava preusmjeriti pozornost na 'fikcije poput one da je RS odvojena od BiH'. Zbog općih trendova u regiji koja napreduje ka EU, istaknuo je Kacin, za Uniju su potpuno neprihvatljivi pokušaji destabiliziranja i fragmentiranja BiH. 'Tijela EU dat će nedvojben odgovor. Regija zapadnog Balkana ipak napreduje, a neki koriste gužvu jer nisu u središtu pozornosti pa misle da će se provući. No mir i stabilnost u EU su od najveće važnosti i stoga će Unija reagirati', kazao je Kacin pojašnjavajući kako će EU na izazove iz Banje Luke 'odgovoriti jednim glasom'. Prošlotjednu odluku parlamenta RS o raspisivanju referenduma još treba potvrditi Vijeće naroda tog entiteta, a očekuje se kako će bošnjački klub zastupnika uložiti veto i tražiti zaštitu vitalnog nacionalnog interesa. U takvom slučaju o prihvatljivosti raspisivanja referenduma odlučivat će entitetski ustavi sud, no analitičari procjenjuju kako će to tijelo vjerojatno dopustiti provedbu referenduma s obzirom da je parlament RS ranije usvojio zakon kojim se to pitanje regulira. Prema postojećim procjenama, entitetski referendum mogao bi uslijediti tijekom lipnja. Predsjednik RS Milorad Dodik, na čiji je poticaj i donesena odluka o raspisivanju referenduma, izjavio je kako će on u svakom slučaju biti održan, bez obzira na stajališta međunarodne zajednice. 'Hoće li kasnije uslijediti i neki drugi referendum pa i onaj o statusu RS više ovisi o budućoj praksi međunarodne zajednice nego o nama', kazao je Dodik u ponedjeljak u intervjuu beogradskoj 'Politici'. - Sviđa vam se članak? Preporučite ga prijateljima putem ovih servisa: Pošaljite mailom