The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, confirmed today that the SNSD’s proposal for the President of Srpska in the snap elections will be Siniša Karan.
“We will propose this to the coalition partners, and our proposal will be the Minister of Scientific and Technological Development and Higher Education of Republika Srpska, Siniša Karan. We need to agree on that,” Dodik stated in a statement for RTRS from Sochi.
Snap elections for the President of Republika Srpska were called by the BiH Central Election Commission (CiK BiH) for November 23.
Who is Siniša Karan?
Siniša Karan was born in 1962 in the village of Grabovac, in the municipality of Beli Manastir in Croatia.
He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences “Veljko Vlahović” at the University of Sarajevo, political science department, in 1985, and obtained his master’s degree from the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka in 2006. He earned his doctorate from the Faculty of Law in Banja Luka in 2009.
From 1985 to 2008, he worked in internal affairs bodies on jobs and tasks such as Commander of the Kupres Police Station, Secretary of the Kupres SUP, Head of the Crime Department of the Centar Sarajevo SJB, Head of the Directorate for Suppression of Crime of the MUP of Republika Srpska, Head of Criminal Investigations of SIPA, and Head of the Financial Intelligence Department of SIPA.
In 2008, he served as the Security Advisor to the President of Republika Srpska, and from 2009 to 2019, he served as the Secretary-General of the President of the Republic. From January 2019, he was the Secretary-General of the Government of Republika Srpska. From December 2022 to September 2025, he served as the Minister of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska. He was then appointed as the Minister of Scientific and Technological Development and Higher Education of Republika Srpska.
Since the 2013/14 school year, he has been engaged at Paneuropean University Apeiron Banja Luka, and at the Independent University Banja Luka (NUBL) since the 2010/11 academic year.
The SDS announced a few days ago that its candidate for the President of the RS in the interim elections would be Branko Blanuša, a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Banja Luka and a long-time member of that party.
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Source: Euronews; Photo: ATA Images