Fahrudin Radoncic, head of the Alliance for a Better Future or SBB, was dismissed from his position as BiH Minister of Security by the House of Representatives on Friday. The Bosniak-majority SDA and SDP parties voted to dismiss Radoncic, as did Serb-led parties, ostensibly on the grounds that he did not do enough to prevent or limit the violence and damage to public institutions that resulted from protests last month.
Mr. Radoncic, however, said that the failures surrounding the protests had been the fault of Federation authorities, as security within the entities is the responsibility of entity governments.
“Unfortunately, the law says the police coordination directorate does not have an obligation to inform us,” Radondic said. “The Prime Minister and Federation Police Department do not have an obligation to inform us either, nor was I, as minister, allowed to ask what were they doing.”
He said the crisis over the escalation of the demonstrations was just one example of how police structures are not functioning together – and the issue of jurisdiction among the police agencies was not new, and had to be solved.
Radoncic said his dismissal had nothing to do with responsibility for the protests but was a matter of trade-off between the president of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Zlatko Lagumdzija and Milorad Dodik, president of the Alliance of Independence Social Democrats, SNSD.
