Pod premijerom RS Miloradom Dodikom, koji predvodi Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata (SNSD), međutim, bosanski Srbi prijete sazivanjem referenduma o nezavisnosti u slučaju da BiH pokuša izmijeniti postojeći status RS ili da je u potpunosti ukine.
Under RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, who heads the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), though, Bosnian Serbs have been threatening to call a referendum on independence should BiH try to change RS's current status or abolish it altogether.