Dodik Urges US Serbs to Vote for Republicans

The hardline leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Milorad Dodik, has called on Serbs who are living in the US to vote for candidates who are supported by President Donald Trump at the mid-term elections on Tuesday.

"As the US president told the UN General Assembly recently, the US rejects the ideology of globalism and supports the doctrine of patriotism all over the world. These are the values which we [Serbs] share as well," Dodik told media on Monday.

Dodik has consistently backed Trump, hoping that the US president will rescind sanctions imposed on him by the US Treasury in early 2017. Dodik has said that the sanctions were the work of Barack Obama's administration.

Dodik has also suggested that Trump, if re-elected for second term, may create the conditions for Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity to become part of Serbia.

"US President Donald Trump's second term will be a chance for the reintegration of Republika Srpska into neighbouring Serbia, or for giving it more autonomy," Dodik told Serbian public broadcaster RTS in September.

Former Trump campaign associate Landon Tucker Davis attended an election campaign rally held by Dodik's Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, the leading political party in Republika Srpska, in September ahead of the general elections in Bosnia.

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