Bosnian Serb leader Dodik threatens to block national government

FILE PHOTO: President of Republika Srpska (Serb Republic) Milorad Dodik speaks during an interview with Reuters in his office in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina January 8, 2024. REUTERS/Marko Djurica/File Photo

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik said on Thursday that Serbs would block the work of Bosnia's national government unless election laws imposed by an international envoy are annulled and Western ambassadors expelled from the country.

Bosnia's peace overseer, Christian Schmidt, on Tuesday imposed changes to the election law to ensure its integrity through technical improvements after the country's rival ethnic leaders failed to agree on election reform.