THEY WERE SARAJEVO'S LIBERALS, TODAY HDZ GENERALS The clientelist caste will extinguish Our Party as soon as it loses power!

Written by: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

The House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation has a new Rules of Procedure. It was proposed and voted on by representatives of the parliamentary majority in the representation of the HDZ of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDP, NiP, NS, HDZ1990, PDA, Mario Karamatić, Slaven Raguž, Arnel Isak, Kenan Uzunović). And how representative democracy will look in the Federation entity in the future was already shown by the session at which the new Rules of Procedure were adopted.

The opposition was allowed to speak, but after each speech, the minutes were counted. At one point, they even tried to challenge that, only to eventually, as Mahir Mešalić (DF) noted, mock what the opposition had said. At the same time, through an abbreviated procedure, Čović's disseminators of darkness over democracy chose an abbreviated procedure, to prevent someone from the opposition from preserving a glimmer of democracy with an amendment.

And I will not speak in this text about the HDZ and the People and Justice. They have proven that they can only function in the darkness of imposition, vindictiveness, and persecution of dissenters. Parties that persecute political rivals and others through the public and servile structures in the judiciary cannot even be considered democratic political parties. They are projects, by all accounts, of the same trajectory and goals.

This is a text about liberals, that is, those who see themselves as such. And they are called Our Party and from its founding to today, they have been able to and have talked about how they advocate for human rights, freedom, and liberalism. They emerged as a separate piece of the hungry political mouths of the Communist Party turned into the Social Democratic Party of BiH.

Looking from today's perspective, it is completely clear that they care more about stray dogs freely roaming Sarajevo than about elected representatives of citizens in the capacity of deputies having the freedom to represent those citizens. Or, judging by the appearances of the new parliamentary flagship of that party, Damir Nikšić, that those deputies who do not consider that Edin Forto combs his hair nicely and that Sabina Ćudić is the smartest, have nothing to say in the Parliament of the FBiH and that their time should be limited to a few minutes, and the right to speak to a maximum of two attempts.

Thus, liberals have become generals of ethnonationalist policies, de facto of the HDZ.

And do you remember how they were all fired up every time they said, "We will not with ethnonationalists. No with SDA, HDZ, SNSD, we are principled." Here they are now in the ethnonationalist team tailored by apartheid, led by a man who dreams of a Greater Croatia. At the state level, the separatist Mile Dodik is now attractive and acceptable to them.

But, no matter how much as the government they extinguish the light of democracy, that is not even a guarantee that clientelism as an ornament of their existence and functioning will not extinguish them, because only power protects them from extinction. But power where there is good money and little responsibility: Like Forto, who practically drilled a political tunnel to get to the Council of Ministers, and fled from the Sarajevo Canton.

Because, the Sarajevo Canton has gone from a leading administrative unit to a black hole of budget funds. In six years of the Troika's rule, the railway was renovated, and when that effect wears off, they will not be able to answer what they have done. The answer is nothing.

Therefore, according to information from Patria, none of the Našisti wanted to be in the cantonal government, so they forced Uka to be prime minister, aware that this is his political end, because wheat is not produced from tares. The same is true for the cantonal ministers of NS.

And according to the same information, the sessions of the Presidency of Our Party are just an audition behind closed doors. Forto no longer enjoys trust, but as long as the clientelists enjoy power, they will not touch him. Except for Sabina Ćudić, who allegedly slaps him every time he does not take her side and does not tell comrades and gentlemen that she is the smartest and always right. And it is said that in that Presidency, there are continuously those who say that she is neither principled nor the smartest. We know about principles, don't we.

All this could be encouraging news primarily for the citizens of the Sarajevo Canton, but also for the FBiH entity and the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because, when the Našisti lose power in 2026, the story of liberalism will dissipate from its foundations faster than a Ferrari goes from zero to a hundred. Because, all the now-appointed cadres of Our Party will have nothing to seek in that party.

Therefore, it is up to the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina to remember that Our Party, as a clientelist caste, is the backbone and guarantor for the survival of the Troika. And it is all too well known and clearly visible that the Troika project serves as a Bosniak stamp of political legitimacy for the dismantling of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the performance of the HDZ and SNSD.

I only feel sorry for the stray dogs, but they will find a solution for that too, just to see the backs of the Našisti, right?