Savo Minić

Savo Minić (; born 5 September 1974) is a Bosnian Serb politician serving as Prime Minister of Republika Srpska since September 2025. A member of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), he previously served as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management in the government of Republika Srpska from 2022 to 2025.

Biography

Savo Minić was born on 5 September 1974 in Bosanski Šamac, then part of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He finished elementary school in Donja Dubica near Odžak and high school in Šamac and Bijeljina. He gained a bachelor's degree in 1999 at the University of Banja Luka's Faculty of Law. Minić passed the judicial exam in Serbia in 2003 and the bar exam in 2004. He additionally gained a master's degree in 2013 and a doctorate in 2018. He worked as a lawyer from 1999, and ran a private law practice in Šamac from 2004 to 2008.

Minić served as the municipal mayor of Šamac for two terms, from 2008 to 2016. From 2017 to 2020, he worked as the director of the Agency for Agrarian Payments of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Republika Srpska. During this time, opposition figures accused the agency of favoring politically affiliated individuals in subsidy distribution, which he denied. In 2020, he resigned from that position and became director of Kaldera Company in Laktaši, a company that was later placed under sanctions by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), due to being part of "Milorad Dodik’s Network of Wealth Generating Companies".

From 2022 until 2025, Minić served as minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management in the government of Republika Srpska. as he was proposed to serve by SNSD leader Milorad Dodik, whose mandate as president of Republika Srpska was terminated in August 2025 due to defying decisions by the High Representative, with the termination date marked as 12 June 2025. Due to the unconstitutionality of his mandate, Minić submitted his resignation on 16 March 2026. He was subsequently re-nominated by Siniša Karan, who had been elected president of Republika Srpska in the 2025–26 election, and was confirmed again as prime minister by the National Assembly the following day.

Personal life

Minić is married and a father of three children. He is a hunter and the president of the Hunters' Association of Republika Srpska since 2019.

He is the godfather of Gorica Dodik, daughter of Milorad Dodik, and her husband Pavle.