Back in February this year, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the state court, sentenced Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik in a first-instance ruling to one year of prison with a six-year ban on holding public office, for defying the orders of Bosnia’s international overseer, the High Representative. In August, this was confirmed by the court’s appeals chamber.

Soon afterwards, the Central Election Commission issued a decision to dismiss him from the office of president of Republika Srpska, Bosnia’s mainly Serb entity. The state court rejected Dodik’s appeal against that decision and stated that his mandate would end the day the verdict became final.

In court documents and in the decisions of the Central Election Commission, Dodik was no longer the president of Republika Srpska. After long years in power, he had been banned from office.

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