DF: Stop the majority rule over common sense – stop the exodus of people

In the political life of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it has been well-known for the past decade that the HDZ BiH is a political party that insists on the so-called "representatives of the people" issue, elected directly for certain levels of government, the Democratic Front announced.

This has been particularly emphasized in the election for the BiH Presidency member from the Croat people, which is the original provision of the BiH Constitution, and not, as is currently being imposed, the "Croat member of the BiH Presidency." The so-called Croat issue and the inequality of Croats are primarily manifested through the Election Law, which allows Croats to be outvoted, for example, in the election of the Croat member of the BiH Presidency or in the election of delegates to the House of Peoples of the Federal Parliament.

The HDZ BiH and political satellites that support this political party most often use the term majority rule for such a phenomenon. According to the proponents of such a policy, majority rule is a term used to explain how the majority Bosniak people in the Federation of BiH are allowed to outvote and elect members of the Croat people to power, and thus such authorities are allegedly legal, although not legitimate, because they do not represent the will of the Croat people in BiH.

The policy pursued by the HDZ BiH on this issue, and the realization of whose goals has recently been emphasized by the president of the HDZ BiH as a done deal agreed upon with the SDA, which will soon be realized through changes to the BiH Constitution and Election Law, i.e., the "virtual electoral unit," is particularly argued by "counting the blood cells" of each individual who casts a vote for a political party or individual in direct elections in BiH.

The most famous example of such a policy is the declaration of majority rule over Croats with the election of Željko Komšić as a member of the BiH Presidency from the Croat people in the elections in 2006 and 2010.

This is how the "legitimate representatives of the Croat people" spoke about this issue back in 2006:

"Although they accepted the election result of Željko Komšić, the HDZ BiH says that he came to this position with the votes of non-Croats.

- Croats have ceased to be a political factor.
- HDZ BiH does not recognize the election of Željko Komšić as the Croat member of the Presidency, because he was elected by the votes of non-Croats.
- Komšić received less than five percent of the votes from Croats,
- HDZ BiH says it will request the results of the voting for the BiH Presidency by municipalities from the Central Election Commission (CEC) of BiH to support these claims.
- Božo Ljubić, president of HDZ 1990, congratulated Željko Komšić on his election as the Croat member of the Presidency, but still questioned the legitimacy of his election. "This is the third time that Croats have been deceived in the election for a member of the Presidency. After Jozo Križanović and Ivo Miro Jović, we now have Željko Komšić. All of them were elected by the votes of Bosniaks," said Ljubić, emphasizing that after the adoption of the new constitution, early elections would need to be organized.

This narrative and policy continued and intensified after that year 2006 until today, as in 2010, after the second election of Željko Komšić to the BiH Presidency, and symptomatically, especially after the General Elections in 2014, in which the candidate of the HDZ BiH won as a candidate for the BiH Presidency member.

The activities of the HDZ BiH policy are intensively focused on changing the BiH Constitution and Election Law, as a solution for the status issues of individuals and centers of power gathered around them, and not, as would be logical for "representatives of the people," towards solving the burning issue for Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the mass emigration of Croats to European Union countries, which is most intense from the areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina where the HDZ BiH has power.

The most hypocritical aspect of all this is that the HDZ BiH, guided by the policies and principles it advocates, has not, for example, problematized the election of the mayor of the Municipality of Vareš in the 2016 Local Elections in any way, a man who, if the blood cells of each voter are counted, as the HDZ BiH usually does, was also predominantly elected by the votes of the Bosniak citizens of Vareš. Of course, such an election is not problematic for the HDZ BiH, because the respected gentleman was a candidate of their party, so the blood cells of his voters are not problematic for the HDZ BiH either.

And Mr. Zdravko Marošević, the mayor of Vareš, was elected by the votes of the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the citizens of the Municipality of Vareš, because they recognized him as a good candidate who can contribute to the improvement of the lives of people in this municipality, devastated by war and post-war conditions.

For the values that the Democratic Front advocates, such an election can never be problematic, and we wish Mr. Marošević and his fellow citizens all the best and progress, and to the blood cell counters from the HDZ BiH and their satellites, we say, start taking care of the interests of the citizens of this country, if you want, even just the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but do everything to prevent them from leaving their homes and homeland, and do not just solve your status issues, because it is useless to be a "representative of the people" if the people leave the country – the DF statement reads.