What’s behind the political crisis in Bosnia Herzegovina?

Bosnian Serb leader ignoring conviction, including jail sentence.

A deepening political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Republika Srpska, the autonomous Serb region, bans state police and the judiciary after its leader is convicted of undermining the national constitution.

Both the US and EU are condemning the move.

So what might happen next?

Presenter:

Sami Zeidan

Guests:

Srdan Mazalica – Member of parliament and president of the parliamentary group of the SNSD, the governing party in Republika Srpska

Kurt Bassuener – Co-Founder of Democratization Policy Council, a think tank in Sarajevo

Jasmin Mujanovic – Senior son-resident fellow at the New Lines Institute’s Western Balkans Center

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