DAWN IS BREAKING, DAY IS HERE, NO MORE PARTISANS: Dragan calls, Nermin shouts - forgive us, leader, next year will be the third!

By: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

Comrade Tito, our dewy flowers, SDP members once sang tirelessly, showing loyalty even to the deceased Marshal, and later to the party. But that was long ago, even before that difficult time when the Serb-Croat partisans decided to divide Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Bosnian "eternal communists" decided to dissolve and await their fate instead of organizing underground.

Unfortunately, we allowed them to awaken from that hibernation during the defensive-liberation war for Bosnia and grow into the Social Democratic Party. Through criminal and who knows what other behind-the-scenes dealings, they acquired multi-million dollar real estate, falsely presenting themselves as followers of the Communist Party.

From then until today, the Social Democratic Party has been a continuous political worm in the body of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There is little that the SDP has done in several mandates of power at the state and federal level that has not seriously threatened the existence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially Bosniaks within it. In 2012, they handed over the opportunity to their partner Milorad Dodik to gradually cleanse the entity of Republika Srpska of its remaining non-Serb population.

However, as of yesterday, April 9, 2025, the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been politically strangled.

It was strangled by the president who, by all measures, fits the remaining membership of the party – the traitorous membership – Nermin Nikšić. Therefore, instead of songs about Tito, SDP members can freely sing:

Leader, we are your flowers,
there will be a third one
and no more parties!

Because how else to explain the gesture that happened yesterday in Mostar – when Nermin Nikšić, the president of a party that still carries "social democratic" in its name, stood before Dragan Čović like a student before a teacher, humbly apologizing for daring, imagine, to "fight for gas equality" for citizens?

In a country where the mothers of Srebrenica face genocide denial daily, where Bosniaks in the entity of Republika Srpska are treated as third-class citizens, where the HDZ systematically obstructs everything that smells of a civic BiH – Nermin Nikšić believes it is time to apologize to Dragan Čović.

They say: "May you have it and then not have it." Nikšić had a chance to act like a statesman for once in his career – and he threw it all down the Neretva. On the cobblestones of Mostar, before the cameras, he knelt not only before the HDZ, but also before the entire ideology of apartheid and ethno-national division of BiH.

And while Dragan Čović, with an ever-tighter embrace towards Belgrade and Zagreb, patiently builds his third entity, Nermin Nikšić brings him a bouquet of apologies. But not apologies on behalf of the SDP, but apologies on behalf of every deceived voter who thought they were voting for equality, not for coalition prostitution.

And as the dust settles, Bosnians watch as the former "defenders of justice" turn into autumn leaves carried away by the wind into oblivion. Nermin's legacy, instead of a monument, becomes a warning: whoever plays a double game with the people ultimately buries themselves in silence. SDP members, now without their false glory, remain only a memory of a time when promises were louder than deeds, and Bosnia, despite everything, continues on its path – wounded, but not broken.

And as we wake up on April 10, 2025, to a day of penitent flowers, there is still a glimmer of hope over Bosnia. The disappearance of the SDP as a political force does not mean the end of the struggle, but it opens space for those who will, perhaps, more honestly carry the weight of the people's trust. Their old slogans fade before new voices demanding justice, not positions. And perhaps, just perhaps, from the ashes of this downfall something will emerge that will not divide Bosnia, but build it – stone by stone, day by day.

Because this is no longer just the capitulation of a party. This is a political act of treason.

Today, after the scene in Mostar, we can no longer deceive ourselves that the SDP is an alternative. It is not. With his actions, Nermin Nikšić has broken the last thread with the idea of a civic, equal Bosnia and Herzegovina. It turns out that the problem is not just with the personnel – the problem is in the DNA of a party that has long ceased to be what it claims to be.

The SDP is no longer left. It is not even center. The SDP is now on its knees, looking at Dragan Čović's shoes and waiting for him to allow it to rise.

And the citizens? Those to whom the SDP has been selling stories about fighting nationalism for years can only light a candle at the grave of an idea today.

Because, dawn is breaking, day is here – no more partisans. Only tender-mongers and yes-men remain.