(ANSA) - BELGRADE, AUG 7 - Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik has strongly opposed the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)'s decision to remove him from the position of President of Republika Srpska (RS), BiH's Serb-majority entity. The decision was announced yesterday, following the upholding on appeal of Dodik's sentence of one year in prison and a six-year ban from all political activity for repeatedly disobeying the decisions of Christian Schmidt, the International High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina. "I will remain in my current position and function in Republika Srpska; I have no intention of stepping down, and the people will decide on me in a referendum," Dodik said at a press conference in Banja Luka, the capital of RS. (ANSA).