Bosnia’s electoral authorities have stripped separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik of his post as president of the Serb entity in Bosnia, Republika Srpska.

The formal step follows an earlier appeals court verdict that sentenced him to one year in jail and banned him from all political activity for six years.

A Sarajevo court in February sentenced Dodik for failing to comply with rulings by the international envoy overseeing Bosnia’s 1995 peace accords, following war there in the early nineties.

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) decided to apply the law which lays down that an elected official is automatically forced out of office if sentenced to more than six months in jail, commission member Suad Arnautovic told reporters on Wednesday.

The commission’s decision against

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