S-protomodularity of the category of cocommutative bialgebras

We prove that the category of cocommutative bialgebras in any symmetric monoidal category (that has equalizers) is an S-protomodular category with respect to a particular class of split extensions of cocommutative bialgebras. We also obtain the ``partial'' well-known Smith is Huq condition, meaning that two S-equivalence relations centralize each other as soon as the normal subobjects associated with them commute in the sense of Huq.