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2019 Day of Republika Srpska Honour Unit parade in Banja Luka. Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the holiday unconstitutional on 26 November 2015 [3] stating that the main issue for it being coinciding with a religious holiday. [citation needed] The ruling was ignored by the Republika Srpska government.
Croat RS MPs also supported the RS Day and the referendum. [38] The RS National Assembly passed a resolution on the referendum on 15 July 2016, with the backing of all Serb parties and the boycott of Bosniak RS MPs. The referendum question will be: “Do you agree that January 9 should be marked and celebrated as the Day of Republika Srpska?"
The overall life expectancy in Republika Srpska at birth was 77.15 years in 2019. [75] The Republika Srpska Bureau of Statistics estimated a population of 1,114,819 in 2023. [4] The total fertility rate in Republika Srpska is, as of 2019, 1.34 children per mother—one of the world's lowest. In 2019, the total number of live births, according ...
In 2012, Dodik predicted Republika Srpska's independence. [26] In 2013, there were discussions on the matter. [27] Former CIA Balkans chief Steven Meyer said in 2013 and 2014 that he believed that Republika Srpska would become independent in time, that Bosnia and Herzegovina exists only on paper, and the people should decide for themselves. [28]
Milan Jelić became the President of Republika Srpska (271,022 votes, 48.87%). The party won 41 out of 83 parliamentary seats in the People’s Assembly of Republika Srpska, and Milorad Dodik, the president of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, became the representative for the composition of the new Republika Srpska government.
Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić also attended the event. [7] Croat Republika Srpska MPs also supported the Republika Srpska Day and the referendum. [8] The Republika Srpska National Assembly passed a resolution on the referendum on 15 July 2016, with the backing of all Serb parties and the boycott of Bosniak Republika Srpska MPs.
The National Bank of Yugoslavia (CBCG) also cut the Republika Srpska off, preventing it from redeeming its currency there and refusing to send more due to the CBCG's lack of foreign exchange assets. [42] Afterwards, Republika Srpska did not form its own currency and continued to use the Yugoslav one. In 1999, it adopted the convertible mark. [41]
Dragan Mektić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Мектић; born 24 December 1956) is a Bosnian Serb politician and former criminal investigator who served as Minister of Security from 2015 to 2019. He was also a member of the national House of Representatives from 2019 to 2022. Mektić is a member of the Serb Democratic Party.