Dodik urges Serbian diaspora to vote for Trump

Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik, who is under US sanctions, urged members of the Serbian diaspora in the US to vote for Republican candidate Donald Trump, whom he described as a "peace-loving" leader.
"I urge all members of the Serbian community in the United States to support Republican candidate Donald Trump in Tuesday's presidential election," Milorad Dodik wrote on his Instagram account, as quoted by AFP.
"His return to the presidency of the United States would mean a return to a sensible and fair foreign policy, on which global stability depends," continued the president of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to the latest U.S. census, cited by the Serbian-American Friendship Club website, there are about 180,000 Serbs and 200,000 Americans of Serbian descent living in the United States. But the Serbian diaspora in the U.S., especially in the Chicago area, is actually estimated at over one million people, according to the same source.
The race between the Republican candidate and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris is so close that only a few tens of thousands of votes could decide the outcome of the election.
Milorad Dodik, a politician close to the Kremlin who has led the Serbian entity since 2006, was sanctioned in 2017 and 2022 by the US government for his separatist policies in Bosnia; he was accused of "eroding the institutions that have ensured peace and stability".
Nearly three decades after an internecine war (1992-95) that claimed nearly 100,000 lives, the integrity of this Western Balkan country of 3.5 million inhabitants is still guaranteed by the Dayton Peace Agreement (US).
For Milorad Dodik, who regularly denounces the "interference" of US ambassadors in Bosnia's domestic politics, "Donald Trump will understand the situation in Bosnia better than previous administrations."
"Donald Trump's first term has shown that he is a peace-loving president who steers world politics responsibly and takes into account the particularities of all countries," Dodik concluded. | BGNES