A Year Devoured by Lies: The Departure of the "Trojka" is Salvation for KS Citizens, Reconstruction is a Mask for Ruin

By: Muamer Bandić, SBiH MP in the KS Assembly

As we approach the very end of the current year, talk of reconstructing the Sarajevo Canton Government is becoming louder. There would be nothing strange about it, as politics is almost constantly speculating about some kind of reconstruction, if it weren't coming from the ranks of the ruling oligarchy.

From the very people who put this government in place and sold us these same individuals as the best experts, we are now hearing that "meritocratic personnel refreshments are necessary in the KS Government," or "the best, most educated, most experienced, and most honest in the most responsible positions" in order to move "towards dynamized development based on innovative development ideas" because "only in this way can we achieve the desired effects, which will be above narrow party interests and the interests of individuals," etc. blah, blah, blah.

Even these platitudes, which were clearly generated by someone using Chat GPT, wouldn't sound strange if the ruling oligarchy hadn't served us the same lies in 2018, then in 2022, and likewise in 2023! Therefore, from the same people and the same lies, we have been hearing continuously for six years. After so much time, it would be expected and honest towards the citizens that they have at least mastered the material, that they have their own opinions and stances on the policies they are implementing, and not that they use AI tools in public communication to create such generic nonsense.

In these six years, without an agenda and any coherent work plan, they have undermined institutions, financially exhausted the wealthiest canton in the FBiH, and it seems they have also exhausted AI, which is incapable of inventing new lies. I suggest to them, as friends, not to be such cheapskates and to get the paid version of this advanced tool, considering that they didn't spare relatives, friends, and godchildren when it came to draining the cantonal budget, so it's only fair that they don't spare themselves when they need it most.

And the cacophony of views coming from the ruling oligarchy makes it clear that they don't know what they are doing or what they should be doing. Less than a month ago, the president of Our Party, Edin Forto, told us that a real revolution was happening in Sarajevo Canton, but that the ministers weren't taking enough pictures for Facebook, Instagram, and weren't hanging out on TikTok, so citizens weren't seeing it. Forto seems to have forgotten that Sarajevo citizens don't walk around our city using social networks, nor do they look at their wallets on television.

Today, this same Forto is calling for the reconstruction of the very government that is carrying out the revolution, which he put in place and which his man is leading. He goes so far as to even offer partners the Ministry that his man led, whom he brought from Zenica, and who exchanged his ministerial position for one in the Central Prison due to favoritism towards the construction mafia in destroying the Olympic beauty Bjelašnica.

I only hope that Minister Bošnjak will tell the investigative bodies who ordered him to put his signature on that document, as he faces a multi-year prison sentence for abuse of office and corruption. It would be right for at least one of them to tell us the truth for once, instead of instructing the media to serve us even more lies.

And we are left with a huge question mark: whom to believe? This Forto from two weeks ago, or this one today? Who is crazy here, or whom have they been lying to all these years?
Talking about the reconstruction of a government that faithfully copies the policies of Mile and Dragan's clique in its work and has led us to financial ruin is insane and meaningless. Reconstruction is just sprinkling ashes on our heads and an escape from responsibility by the same people who have been lying to us for years and whose incompetence is in full bloom, judging by the finances of Sarajevo Canton.

Reconstruction, if it happens at all, will bring us an even worse group of incompetent sycophants, who will even more brazenly and fiercely continue the initiated plunder of resources and push us even deeper into the debt abyss into which these petty bourgeois, alienated from reality and the people, are leading us, and whose policies are shaped by foreign embassies according to their interests.

If the ruling oligarchy had any shame or sense of responsibility towards this people and country, they would have resigned themselves due to incompetence and constant deception of citizens with media spins that have become their hallmark and the sole content of their political leadership. If they continue on this path, I fear that by the time Sarajevo wakes up from this induced political spin-coma in which they have collectively held us for years, we will be left without a state and without a people in this new "Trojka" mission to save the lost party soldier Uk.