The same subject is further discussed by Lidija Kujundzic in the October 30, 1997 issue of the Belgrade weekly "NIN".The extraordinary parliamentary elections in Republika Srpska are to be held on November 23, and do not bring uncertainty for President Biljana Plavsic, to whom it is most important that their holding has been viewed in domestic and international public as a democratic act with which the constitutional crisis in Republika Srpska could be overcome. But, somehow at the same time, from the top of the ruling SDS estimates were heard that there will be nothing of the parliamentary elections.
President Plavsic believes that after the elections are held and the Parliament of RS is constituted, the crisis will be over, and it is not hard to predict that the Americans and other international factors will directly implement the policy of respect of the electoral results, which has already been done after the local elections in all entities.
But, the democratization of political relations in RS is going on slowly, even among the opposition parties, which in the last few days attempted to form a technical coalition so that they might win in the elections, that is, depose from power the SDS party.
T0he opposition parties in RS do not take each other into consideration, as well as the party in power, and the party in power barely has normal political relations with the President of the state which is supported, at least verbally, by the foreign politicians. Foreign politicians are not the same thing to any of the involved sides, and this goes as far that Slobodan Milosevic , President of FRY, is at the same time a domestic and an international factor in RS. But, it is even harder to discern in whose good intentions does the population of Republika Srpska believe. President Plavsic says that she is in such a position that she cannot believe anybody, nether the international community, neither Milosevic - even though she is a person who trusts people.
Source: Belgrade weekly "NIN" , October 30, 1997
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