Where there is no agreement between SDA and Party for BiH, Čampara will have the final say

(Patria) - The constitutive session of the Novi Grad Municipal Council has not been concluded, because the two parties with the most mandates did not keep their word.

Namely, according to the pre-election agreement of the so-called "Sarajevo Response", i.e., the bloc of parties SDA, SBiH, and DF, in Novi Grad, the Party for BiH provided a candidate for mayor, while the SDA was supposed to get the position of Council Chairperson.

Tensions between SBiH and SDA in Novi Grad were already one of the biggest obstacles to the coalition's functioning. First, the local SDA, led by Adnan Efendić, tried in every way to push through its candidate, and after the party bodies decided that this was not possible, it was rumored that Adnan Efendić was directly working against Semir Efendić's campaign, all in cooperation with Aljoša Čampara.

That things are not functioning is clear even today, when Adnan Efendić wants Haris Alihodžić at the head of the Novi Grad Council at all costs. SDA's Efendić does not agree to a compromise, because Alihodžić is his loyal cadre, and according to information from Patria, this is the reason why everything got out of control.

We unofficially learn from the Party for BiH that they have no problem with the chairperson being someone from the SDA; they even offered that it could be Sead Kolašinac, the elected list bearer of the SDA, or someone else from the SDA club. This was an insurmountable problem for Adnan Efendić, who pulls the strings within the Novi Grad SDA, and because of this, today's session was unsuccessful.

Shortly after the unsuccessful session, the public witnessed a statement from the SDA Novi Grad, which, among other things, says: “Although it is clear that the agreement was fulfilled by the SDA, unfortunately, it turned out that cooperation with SBiH was not based on respect for the agreement, but on political calculations aimed at deceiving partners, as was shown today at the Constitutive session of the Council, where SBiH proposed its candidate for Council Chairperson, Mr. Nezir Hadžić, and the SDA, following the earlier agreement, proposed its candidate, Mr. Haris Alihodžić. The voting results showed that Alihodžić had 14 votes and Hadžić 12, while four ballots were invalid. Given that the outcome is clear, cooperation with the Party for BiH has once again brought great disappointment and distrust in future agreements,” concluded the SDA.

It is obvious that personal interests and animosities have once again prevailed over political dialogue in the patriotic bloc, but what is certain is that voters of both parties, as part of the wider bloc, expect responsibility and seriousness.

Primarily due to the fact that political brokers are already active in the interim space. Aljoša Čampara, a NiP political operative, according to our information, is already negotiating about coalition capacity in Novi Grad, after the councilors of Our Party remained on the sidelines in today's tug-of-war between SDA and SBiH.

It remains to be seen what the reaction of the Cantonal Committee and the top of the Party of Democratic Action will be, because it is quite clear that in the local organization of that party in Novi Grad, the main word is held by cadres for whom the priorities of citizens, the municipality, the state, and ultimately the party, are not the most important.

And where there is no agreement between the Party for BiH and the SDA, Aljoša Čampara will have the final say. In that case, the leaderships of the SDA and SBiH must answer why they deceived voters in the local elections.