Mayors in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska vowed to heed President Milorad Dodik’s call for streets to be named in honour of the January 9 ‘statehood day’ holiday banned by the Constitutional Court.
The mayors of several municipalities in Republika Srpska told BIRN that they intend to follow Milorad Dodik’s call and name streets after January 9, the date on which the Day of Republika Srpska is celebrated – a holiday that was declared unconstitutional by the state Constitutional Court.
Dodik on December 28 asked all mayors of towns and municipalities in the entity to rename streets to mark the occasion.
Despite constant political disagreements between Republika Srpska’s ruling party, Dodik’s Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, and the main opposition parties in the entity, the Serb Democratic Party and the Party of Democratic Progress, politicians from all sides said they supported the idea.
“We will accept this idea and in the coming days, we will start the procedures to name one street after January 9,” Cicko Bjelica, the Serb Democratic Party mayor of the Sokolac municipality in eastern Bosnia, told BIRN.
Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Republika Srpska, already has a small street named after January 9, but the mayor’s office said a more impressive one would be found to rename.
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