FEARS: Jusufović replaced Radončić at negotiations, said that radical circles threaten SBB leader

(Patria) - Fahrudin Radončić, leader of the Alliance for a Better Future, did not appear today at the headquarters of the European Union delegation in Sarajevo for negotiations that US Special Envoy Matthew Palmer and Angelina Eichhorst, Director in the European External Action Service (EEAS), are holding with representatives of local political parties. Instead of Radončić, Munib Jusufović, a delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Sanela Prašović Gadžo, a delegate in the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, attended the negotiations on behalf of the SBB.

Munib Jusufović conveyed a message from "President Fahrudin Radončić" to the chairs of these negotiations, Palmer and Eichhorst, in which he explained the reasons for his absence today. "The president told me to tell you that he is very upset because portals under the control of the SDA are waging a systematic campaign against him and declaring him a traitor," Jusufović told the surprised participants of today's talks. He also said that because of these texts, Fahrudin Radončić "began receiving threats from certain radical circles."

Radončić's spokesman (or perhaps a stuntman in dangerous scenes) Munib Jusufović did not reveal whether his party chief reported the threats he is receiving from "certain radical circles" to the relevant authorities, the police, or the prosecutor's offices.

However, knowing the unmatched skill and dedication of the SBB leader to scheming, intrigue, shifting the goalposts, and twisting facts, one would say that he is once again deceiving the public, in which he has had no serious competition on the local public scene for a long time.

There is no "systematic campaign" in the local media against Fahrudin Radončić. There are only criticisms and outrage from the media, more or less all of them, with the exception of a handful under his and Dragan Čović's control, following the leader's statement in which he tried to "rationalize" and "objectify" the vote of HDZ BiH delegates in the House of Peoples of the Parliament of BiH to annul the "Inzko Law" on punishing the denial of genocide, writes Slobodna Bosna.

"It is not right for me to say what I heard in private, but the Croatian votes were given to the SNSD with the best intention to preserve the SNSD in the negotiation process, not because the HDZ wants to be a partner to Dodik. They knew it couldn't pass, they raised their hands to preserve the SNSD, as part of the agreement, not as part of the problem," was Radončić's first comment on the joint appearance of HDZ and SNSD delegates in the House of Peoples of the PSBiH.

Of course, this explanation by Radončić, to put it mildly, politically illiterate and immature, met with criticism in the media and the general public. The SBB leader understood this as well, so he very quickly ate humble pie and already the next day said that "the manner of voting in the House of Peoples of BiH does not honor certain individuals from the Croatian Democratic Union, because for us Bosniaks it is a kind of knife in the back."

To leave nothing unsaid, let us clarify: at the head of the "individuals from HDZ BiH" in the House of Peoples who supported the SNSD proposal was Dragan Čović, Radončić's friend. If Croatian media, delegates in the Croatian Parliament, and even the President of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, can state and condemn this, why does the SBB leader Radončić hesitate to utter his name?!

(SB)